World Series

I was looking at the Postseason stats, and this is our pitchers against the Tigers in the World Series.

Another Day at the Office

Throughout the playoffs I've been keeping my students abreast on the Giants' progress. A couple of them have even told me they watched the games just for me. They knew I went to game 2 of the World Series on Thursday. Friday at the beginning of 4th period a couple of them asked me about the game.

I decided to respond to the question. I briefly described our frantic route trying to get to the game on time. Then the missed cutoff throw, but still relayed to get Fielder at home. Suddenly I found myself drawing a picture of baseball diamond on the front white board as I described the Blanco bunt staying fair. I even ran down the rows in my classroom giving high fives simulating me running down the aisle the night before in section 315.

Somehow I ended up standing on a chair in front of my class with the door open yelling about the outside pitches that Hunter Pence took for called strikes. I look out the door and see down the hall one of my students from another class had just stopped and was looking in the class, curious about the commotion. Then I see a parent walk by so I start yelling, "The absolute value of x is five! Yes five!" Now, I'm laughing. My kids are laughing.

We close the door so I can continue my story. Just as Pence delivers a huge sacrifice fly a student aid from the office walks into the classroom to deliver a call slip to me.

With me still standing on the chair at a volume louder than normal it sounded something like this, "Then the runner comes in from, Absolute value of x is five. Algebra. Math. X."

The office aid leaves. The class laughs. I ask, "Where were we?" One my girls in the 2nd row says, "Hold on Mr. Burrill. Let me catch my breath."

Romo closed the door and we won 2-0. The rest of the class we went ahead and worked on math.

Letter from Parent

The mother of one of my students e-mailed me today. I had her son Ryan several years ago. This was her e-mail:

 

I am so glad she has you this year. I totally believe Ryan wouldn’t be the person he is today if it hadn’t been for you. You gave him so much confidence and helped him believe in himself. Ryan’s story is truly a story to tell. Starting off with a learning disability can be hard enough but then to have suffered so much from the car accident when he was a sophomore; a brain injury and back problems; but he never gave up. And now he is so proud to have graduated with a 3.7 and get accepted to Sac State (by the way, he loves it there!) I think we all have one or two teachers that we never forget and I know for Ryan you are definitely one of them. Now for Makayla, Can you help her with her algebra too!J When she returns to school in a few weeks I was thinking about putting her in the after school program so she has help with homework. Do you know anything about it?

Hope to hear from you soon.

 

Tree Frog

My niece e-mailed me a picture of a frog she drew in art class. It looked great so I asked her how she was able to send it to me. This was her e-mail back to me:

"i took a picture of the paper with my phone, texted it to my e-mail, saved it on my computer, and e-mailed it to you as an attachment." 

Duh. Just like we did in middle school. 

Number

Me: I need you to call the phone company, and I memorized the number so I don't even need to look it up.

Her: It probably isn't a lot of numbers.

Me: What are you talking about? It is an entire 800 number.

Her: What is it? 1-800-444-4445?

Me: Wow. That is really close. How did you know?


(Actual number was 1-800-444-4410)

The Odds are Good

Recent conversation with my girlfriend:

Me: I'm not sure I want to say.

Her: Go ahead.

Me: I had us as 6 to 1 favorites.

Her: Not bad, I was thinking 4 to 1.

Me: That's one of the sexiest things a girl has ever said to me.


I think I'm going to marry this one.

Old Cayucos Tavern

I just looked this place up on Yelp because I was curious if they still had poker there. This was the first review I read:

From Patrick W:
liquor in the front, poker in the rear.
great spot to find that middle aged woman in search of a young man.
but everything else is awesome.
pool tables and shuffleboard. a most visit when in Cayucos

Pizza Party

Yesterday I bought pizza for 40 of my students as a reward for their effort in class. I think only 4 said "thank you."

Basic Effort

Here is the caption from under this photo:

Miami Marlins right fielder Giancarlo Stanton is unable to catch a ball hit by San Francisco Giants' Aubrey Huff for a single during the second inning of a baseball game, Friday, May 25, 2012 in Miami. Photo: Wilfredo Lee/ AP

I was in a restaurant so I did not benefit from hearing any commentary from the announcers. Pagan was on first and he went half way. When the ball hit the wall he easily made it to the third. The part I don't get: how did Huff not get to second? I'm still a little upset about it.