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Friday Night Lights

I knew we lived close to Edmond-Woodway high school. I guess I didn’t realize how close, or how big a deal high school football is around here. I hopped out of my car Friday night to hear a mighty throng chanting “defense, defense”. Now I’m not accustomed to cheering squads following me around, so it took me a while to figure out what was going on. Although Hannah often chants “defense” at me if I answer a question a little too defensively.

Example:
“Barry, what happened to all of the cookies?”
“Why do you think I know?”
“defense!”

Anyway, I guess I’d better get used to the sounds of prep football. Who knows? Maybe I’ll go take in a game or two. Yeah, my life really is that exciting.

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Funny Business

I officially have a funny group of kids this year in my class. Today I was modeling something with another student and I was sitting in a chair and he was standing in front of me facing towards me. We were demonstrating how to politely ask somebody to stop doing something that you didn’t like. We were about to begin and this student pinched his shirt with both of his fingers, wiggled it,  and then put his hands by his sides. I asked him why he did that and he informed me that he was adjusting his neck tie. I informed him he wasn’t wearing a neck tie before we both burst out laughing. For the record, he was just wearing a t-shirt and was in no way dressed up.

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Chew Toy

I get the impression that Sydney is tired of our old couch, and would prefer that we enter the couch market sooner rather than later. She’s chewing on a bone in the picture below, but she decided to rough up the couch a bit before that. You can see some of the carnage in the foreground.