The Internet! Keeping Us Connected!

Am I the only one that feels a resurgence of blog activity!?! I just want to keep the ball rolling here, you know what I mean?

And if you're all going to be all like, oh, Von Grinner, why don't he write? Maybe you should keep in mind that I have a very high stress job!

Which reminds me, I teach Physical Science at John Bartram High, to sophomores and freshmen. If that is news to you, you are not really my friend, because everyone knows that except for people that only get their news from my blog (who know who you are, my cheeto-dusted ham-faced pickle-sweat lurkers).

Teaching is fun and challenging. Every day, it is up to me to find ways to get people to learn without them knowing it, or without it feeling like work, which nobody likes. Right now I'm in the middle of Physics:

That's my favorite slide I've used so far. I stole it from a web site, but I won't say which one. I want to see how long it takes him to take it off of my blog. Monkeys are fun! One thing about this monkey is, irrespective of the x-component velocity (or acceleration) of a projectile subject to gravity, its y-component acceleration is constant: -9.8 (m/s)/s. That's what I like about this monkey.

-smirks knowingly-

The district has muchos problems, like this and this and this. No bueno, right Dev? But no teacher recently got arrested for a DUI, unlike SOME district I could name! No, actually I feel bad about that (which is why I'm not linking to it). We gave her a hard time in that class; we were nutz like Renee on the hit television series, 24. NuTz!

Lots to say about my job, if I were so inclined... Like when the lights went out and the generator also failed, so it was pitch black in the halls -- in between classes! Some people got jumped (one had to leave in an ambulance) and our front hall was thrashed. It was crazy like when Renee stabbed that guy in the eyeball, and then over and over, and then Jack in the belly (Jack was all right).

But, like the above, most of what ya'll would like to hear would pretty much be gossip. The good things happening would be more responsible to blog about, but not as fun to read. We'll try: recently, one of my students -- who had threatened me to the point of suspension last month -- has turned in all his work and is pulling a solid B. I called his mom to say positive things!

See?

You want to hear about the threat, right?

Well, mom also reads this blog, and she is proud of me, and loves me very much. She wants to know how wonderful I am, and not how things are -- despite my wonderfulness -- crazy like Renee when she sawed off that guy's thumb, just because she wanted his bracelet.

Anyways, that'll do for now. I have contributed. Ball's in your court, Jaron! Or Tressa!

I don't want Gregan to upstage me right away. It is common knowledge that he has the best blog. I think, though, I am making some inroads into his secrets. Like ending with ytmnd flair, such as this gem, which shows the ever-versatile Gary Oldman hitting a high note.