Pizza – Off

What do you do on a Saturday night, when there is nothing to do and all you have is pizza ingredients an oven & wine? You have a pizza cook off. My buddies Aron, Brian and myself got together last Saturday and each made our signature pizza. The 3 judges were Sarah, Christy  & Miles. Who won you ask? No one,. The judges sucked and would not vote. Feelings ya know. Anyway, I am almost certain mine would have won. Miles told Aron mine was the best, and Brians sucked. Anyways, wine was consumed and pizza was enjoyed. Which one do you think looks the best?

 Brian’s Pizza – Artichoke, Olives, Spinach & Mushroom

 

Aron’s Pizza – Pepperoni & Cheese & Homemade crust

 Joe’s Pizza – BBQ Chicken

 

Dodgeball 3.0

Once again I have volunteered my great skills to the AustinISD dodgeball team. Without me, who knows how bad they would be. Well this go around, I decided to entice my buddy Brian into joining the team. Therefore, I would have someone to get drunk with after each losing night. So far I have not had to do that because we have been winning. I have gotten drunk anyway though. Who knew a couple of teachers could play some dodgeball? Anyway are 3-0 and playing some crap competition. Soooo, we may be the next best thing. Of course if we do go undefeated I plan on taking all credit, and not giving any to Brian.

 

Silverchair

This past Thursday, Christy and I went to see Silverchair in concert. Man are we getting old. First of all we have not been to a concert in forever, and on the way (which was way later than we had ever left for a concert) we said that we hoped they did not play a long set because we wanted to go to bed. Weak or what?

However it was a pretty good concert. We hung w/ our friend Kyla and her boyfriend. Very nice guy. Although our friends Aron and Sarah straight up dissed us. They were there, but Aron was pissed that we did not ride together so, he wouldn’t stand with us. Also, Daniel Johns, the singer kept talking a lot and it was hot as hell and some drunk ass would not quit bumping into Christy.

The one highlight, was one guy who had to be on X. The dude was straight up jumping and sweating to the whole concert. Also his shirt was really tight, as in skin tight. So he brought us amusement during down time. Oh yea, I also got $20 from some guy who passed out at the bar. Walking in Straight Lines my ass.  Finders Keepers right? So overall, with the X guy and the $20 it was somewhat worth it. We even got in bed before midnight. Oh and Kyla bought me a couples of beers, which made it an even better concert.

 

A Mitchell Thanksgiving

Now, I ain’t one for hosting and entertaining, but Christy & myself decided to host Thanksgiving this year at our house. Normally we have it at my aunt Maragarita’s , but I think she is tired of it, so we were asked to do it. Well I must say that it was a success. I used to hate holidays, probably because I grew up in a childrens home, and got screwed out of real family time, but now I love getting together. Christy cooked all the food herself, except the turkey. She said she ain’t messing with that. It all turned out good. I got drunk, and ate a lot and got to see all the familia. Even my sister Michelle rolled up in to town with G and little D and the newest member of the family Alayna. Anyway it was cool to do it. A lot of work, but work it. I look forward to not doing it again for a couple of years.

       

 

B 52’s

I have not blessed you people of late with my blogging abilities, so here is my monthly blog. As of late, I am on a big B 52s kick, which is killing Christy. I used to love them back in the days of “Good Stuff” and when Kate Pierson sang w/ Michael Stipe on “Shiny Happy People”, but years have passed since then. For some reason the other day I you tubed them and started jammin some “Private Idaho” and ‘Rock Lobster And found a song of theirs from 1998 “Debbie which is pretty good. Anyway I found out that the have a new CD coming out this fall, which will be bought. Christy keeps telling me that they are gay and that i am for liking them, which I a find extremely opposite from our egaltarian beliefs and thoughts. Anyway gotta love that Fred Schnieder, he’s got some moves.

 

Back to School/Back to Work

Well, it’s official. Summer is over. Tommorrow at 9 am Crockett High School will be flooded with students, some good, some bad. My classroom will be jumping with students who will with no doubt be bored out of their minds when I start teaching them about what I believe to be the most fascinating things in the world. It’s really kinda sad.

Anyway, I have put numerous hours of work into preparing myself for my 4th year of teaching. This year apparently, the higher ups did not think I had enough to do so they decided to have me teach World History along with World Geography. Ah, but I was a step ahead. Not only did I get myself a co-teacher to teach my classes w/ me, but I also got myself an eager student teacher this year. Apparently he looks like Orlando Bloom.

Oh, what wonderful things I will teach Mr. Bloom. How to make my copies, how to make my lessons, how to call irate parents (so I don’t have to) how to deal with the bad kids (I will deal with the good ones), how to carry boxes of paper, where he can get my printouts, how to walk  BEHIND myself, Aron & Brian (teacher friends) when we roam the halls doing absolutely nothing but harassing children and how I like my coffee (7 packets of sugar), a little cream). Ya know, basically the important stuff.

Anyway enjoys some pics of my classroom, which are basically the same memories you had of your high school Social Studies classrooms….drab, plain, maps, flags, male teacher. NOW SIT DOWN, BE QUIET and FINISH YOUR WORK!!!

              

        

 

Cougar Camp & Deodorantless Freshman

Well, this past week I was involved in Cougar Camp at Crockett High School. It is when we get all the incoming freshman together and sort of give them an orientation. Stuff like info, games, prizes, and all that get to know your classmates & campus crap. Anyhow, it started this past Wednesday and went through Friday. It was great up until Tuesday around noon. By that time, we had been doing a lot of things, working up a sweat. Now having 300 Freshman in a small cafeteria in the middle of summer seems okay, and I am sure the higher ups in charge of this program did not see a problem w/ it, but then again they were not incharge of a group of these freshmen. I can only describe the air in the cafeteria of Crockett HS at that moment as probably being the worst smell I have ever encountered, and I have smelled many bad things. It was a pungent mix of adolescent, pubescent, and in some cases pre-pubescent stank. I would be willing to bet that maybe 10 % of the freshman were wearing any deodarant at all. The other 90 % were wearing teenage stench mixed with straight up ass. It was horrible I say. The fortunate thing was that by Friday, I was used to it. School starts for the students on the 27th and I am going to make it my mission to educate the young minds of America about Old Spice, Degree, or any deodarant of their choice. Hell they can even roll up into my classroom wearing Axe.

 

My not so MVP performance.

As most of you know, I played in a dodgeball league. My team is made up of Austin ISD teachers, and most of them suck. Anyway, I am the star player, or so I like to think. To back that up I was named the team MVP for last weeks match. Anyhow, we were the featured matched tonight, and if we won, would raise our record to 3 and 1, which would mean we would only need to win one more game to make the playoffs. But as you read the aforementioned  “most of them suck” then you can probably guess that we lost. Oh well, what can you do. Although we lost, I will treat you to a picture of my team and ask you to guess which one we (Christy and I) call “Scarecrow” If I only had a brain….