Dating Advice

I was chatting on-line with a girl last week and she was about to go out on a first date with a guy and she was asking me for some dating advice. After an extensive conversation she summarizes my thoughts and says, "Basically, look good, be myself, and have low expectations."

Yep. I think that was a pretty good summary. Maybe I should start charging for this stuff.

Poker Tour

So I'm less than one week into playing poker. So far in four days at the tables I have had a positive return at the cash games each day. I didn't place in the only tournament I've played. Overall, it has been going well. I feel like I'm playing better as the week has gone by. Also, having one drunk guy and a couple bad players in the game tonight helped. I'm not sure how many poker stories I will post here, because I'm not sure even the small audience I have here would be interested. However, I will share a couple stories that I think would be interesting to the general populace.

Wish me luck at the tables.

Or Matt Damon's character would say something more like tell me to play well and stay focused.

Or something like that.

My Students

I was talking to a couple of my former students and said casually that it would be fun to teach at the high school next year, and if I did I would want to teach sophomore AVID. Then I got a couple e-mails from students that said, "I heard your teaching sophomore AVID at Rosemont next year."

I told one girl, who is a current sophomore, that it probably wasn't really going to happen.

She added, "I would get held back just to take that class."

Math in the Workforce

On a recent assignment involving vocational discovery on of my students included the following line in her paper:

I can't think of not one job that doesn't require math.

Me neither.

Courtesy Talk

At the end of my massage the therapist almost always says to me, "take your time getting up." But they usually have another client booked right after me. So I wonder if they should be saying something like, "Take your time getting up, as long as the time it takes you to get up and get dressed does not exceed 3 or 4 minutes."

Moms

As she was about to leave the wedding last night Debbie approached our table.

Debbie: Have you guys seen my purse?

(Brief pause. I checked under the table.)

Debbie: It’s beige.

Adonna: Is this it in your hand?

Debbie: Yep. And I’m the one driving.

But the Colors

Heather stopped by this morning to pick up her wallet. We just had this conversation:

H: Nice pajama pants.

M: Thank you. I just got them.

H: Good, manly colors.

M: Uh... They're Mickey Mouse.

Encouragement

My students finished the math section of the CST yesterday. One of the kids said to me, "I aced that math test, Mr. Burrill. When the questions got hard I did what you said and imagined you yelling me, and then I was able to figure it out."

Made me proud.

Nothing at All

I wonder how this guy found the motivation to write and produce this song.