First of all, I have to say: Happy Talk Like a Pirate Day!
So I’m taking the next step with coffee: I’ve brought a coffeemaker to school. When I was sleepy at school and needed a jolt, I used to bum some coffee from the office. But no coffee this year. I’m already feeling sleepy in the afternoon, so I’ve decided to bring my own coffee maker to school. It’s a “four cup” model. That’s two mugs of coffee. I’ve used it twice now. Four cups is too much. I get the shakes. Two cups is just right.
When I use it, it makes my room smell like coffee. I got some Godiva Vanilla Hazelnut coffee on sale, so actually it smells kind of like chocolatey, candy-like coffee. I still drink it black. I want the caffeine, but don’t need any more calories during the day.
I don’t really have any good place in my room for my coffeemaker, so I’ve put it on my desk. It makes things a little crowded, but I think I can stay ahead of the mess. We’ll see…
Nevermind the coffee…I’ve never seen so dang many paperclips in one box before! Holy catfish!
Oh, and I’m sorry to see you’ve joined the dark side. Soon Lloyd and I will be the only ones who can resist the evil temptation of coffee (not to mention the apparent suicide of your taste buds, that stuff tastes like dirt). I think it’s me and Lloyd, anyway. Lloyd?
Like smoking and several of my other vices, I only drink coffee after I have been drinking, or if ordered to by members of the Mafia. Does that mean I’m still in the club, or do I have to turn in my membership card?
By the way, Brad, I like the way you live on the edge with your coffee pot perched precariously close to your laptop.
I can’t believe they don’t provide coffee for Middle School teachers. I think it should be a rule that Middle School teachers can have whatever they want. Because they put up with Middle Schoolers. Geez!
Arghhhh!!! Go here matey to help with your celebration of Talk like a Pirate Day!
http://www.piratelaws.com
Just be extra careful when you’re
nappingworking, not to burn yourfacehand on it!I don’t like coffee either, although I love the smell of it. On an unrelated subject… Do I spy a big picture of the sainted NED on your bulletin board?
That is a picture of Ned way to the right. Directly behind the coffeemaker is a picture from my Permanent Collection of student art. It is a drawing of a cherub as they are described in the Bible.
I cannot believe there is no homage here [yet] to the amazing job one of your regular
groupiesposters here did to magically transform the Middle School workroom into Davey Jones’ locker for TLaP Day. Peg-leg Deadeye Rose truly outdid herself,including use of a talking pirate skull, candelabra, sea shells, fish and other sea creatures scattered throughout, with the culmination of good taste – the rubber rodent in the refrigerator. Heavens, lad, you take digital photos of everything else (cite several snaps I’ve seen here of hairy legs…shudder) – the Nebraska Bradaptationland fans needed to see that to believe it!!I had a bad start to the morning, and I let it color the whole day. My TLAP day was a bust. In the midst of feeling sorry for myself, I forgot to take a picture of the room.
Well, then – simple solution: Paggy – could you redecorate on Monday just so Brad can take a picture to post here? It should only take you a few hours to recapture the authentic charm of the sea cap’n's lair, eh? You could give up your week-end to really do that right……Peg? Uh, Peggy?
OK, well, then, wait until Hallowe’en – uh – Reformation and do it again – Nebraska will just have to wait in suspense.
(..and sorry if I made you feel even worse, Brad – I know technology was NObody’s friend on Wed. morning here and I heard you had to drive through the neighborhood to access your files for chapel. Unbelievable to most folks – who don’t work where we do.)