Squamloonland

I was hoping to come up with a good theme this month, and had some good suggestions, but none seemed to work with the day—until I realized that my wife’s did. She’d said “How about reality?”

This is not to imply that my previous twenty-eight 12 of 12s weren’t reflective of reality, of course. :^)

5:28am  The reality of our yard: we like our phlox to be accompanied by violets and open ledge, rather than a “lawn”.

6:04am The reality of commuting in New Hampshire. (You might be interested to know that New Hampshire has the largest per capita number of vanity plates. This guy’s says “NH-HOBO”.)

6:20am The reality of my fitness program: I may be there here, but I really don’t go to the gym as often as I should.

7:19am The reality of my eclecticism: I recently dug out my tarot cards from over a decade ago, and it’s been fun to get reacquainted with their Jungian symbolism.

8:24am The reality of teaching: sometimes a computer conjugation website is a welcome respite.

10:14 The reality of 12 of 12: I love that my colleagues are doing it too. That’s Nancy in the background, taking picture #7 from her set.

11:08am Another reality of 12 of 12: Sometimes I don’t get the shot I want. It was weekly advisory day, and I forgot to get a picture of my advisory. So at lunch I asked some of my advisory kids to raise their hands in advisory solidarity. Advisory. There. I said it again.

12:17pm The reality of French IV: sometimes they goof off—but it’s in a cool way. Zach recently learned to solve a Rubik’s cube no matter how you shuffle it, and here we were watching him do it in under a minute.

2:45pm Another reality of high school teaching: Sometimes we’re just supervisors, like here during class meetings. That’s my colleague Jen in front of me taking a picture of the freshman class officers for her 12 of 12.

3:28pm The reality of Leadership Council: There are humorous moments, like when Christina (another 12 of 12er) was giddy over the news that our school district is adopting Google Apps as the main communication and application conduit for next year.

6:24pm The reality of our evenings: We like our TV. Here I’m watching the Dr. Phil that P had just watched, while she makes dinner. This was the case of an anorexic girl who’s been bullying her family with emotional extortion.

7:59pm The reality of dinner at our house: we eat well, and healthy, ninety percent of the time. But nice juicy fatty burgers do happen. And this one was damned good.