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Friday, September 4, 2009

All I need's a good swift kick in the ass!

I've been trying to vary my "training" at the gym lately, and I really did it this morning. Working out in the morning and working a 4-10 shift can be risky, and sure enough I was sleepy all day today. I somehow managed to pull through. I literally took a 15 minute power nap in the break-room (better called a break-closet, it's literally big enough for one person to sit down in).

No, I'm not turning into one of those bros who talks about his work-out routine. I still hate bros and jocks, that was founded in junior high and high school and will never change. I hate bullies more though. So what do I do when I see kids in my own class bullying each other? I can't very well grab him by the collar and enact street justice, now can I? This is just a broken side-rant, but dammit, dammit, dammit, I don't want to teach kids. I don't care how cute or fun they can be sometimes, I hate all the baggage that comes with it. Emotional, disciplinary and otherwise. And I'm also not a big fan of teaching rudimentary stuff, when it comes down to it. I like talking about the philosophically unknowable, the incredibly inane and the highly inappropriate. I did explain to a student what Jehovas Witness, the Amish and Mormons are the other day. That was very stirring (at least for me)

I forgot to mention I had an attempted kancho done to me for the first time the other day too. While substituting for another teacher. For anyone who doesn't know, a kancho is when you make a "gun" with your pointer and middle finger of each hand together, and try to poke the other person in the anus. As a practical joke. No, I'm not making this up, look it up if you want, I can't make this s**t up. Thankfully it was a failed attempt... I certainly don't need 6 year old girls violating me, that's wrong on HOW many levels??

Gonna go see a good show tomorrow night too. And no stinkin kids to teach tomorrow. And band practice and hiking a mountain this weekend. Could things be on the up and up?


"Save yourself, don't make a sound." - Starkweather

2 comments:

Kyle Akuma said...

Hahahaha

You are going to be that guy that confiscate kids toys when they land on your lawn.

I can't believe a 6 year old girl even attempted that on you. What did you do/or say after that failed attempt but the mischievous runt?

I can relate to you on the gym thing as of now as well while going to physical therapy three times a week and working out on my own at home. I have full motion in my knee again but my quads are still a little atrophied so I am on a serious strength training regiment to go back to work.

Also this one refers to your previous post. I know nothing can probably compared to a good old fashioned meal with the fixings you would get at home. I looked up this place for you called Suji's New York Style Restaurant. I have seen a lot of good reviews on this place that is in Roppongi. It might be worth a visit?

http://japan-travel.suite101.com/article.cfm/tokyo_restaurants

Take care dude, and keep your butt safe!

Benjamin L. Belcher said...

I WILL take their baseballs!!!

She acts like a little monkey, but thankfully NOT my regular student. I just turned and gave her the most FIERCE "DAME" (NO!) look I could, but she was still laughin about it.

I feel for you man! My bro had to go through so much of that physical therapy stuff, seems really, really hard. Keep yourself in good shape and take care of your body man!!

That's a fantastic link. I might convince the F.I.D. girls to come out to dinner their with me.

"nighty night, keep ya butthole tight!"