David Sedaris, pizza, and UTube

Cash money updates

With rain cancellations denying me the opportunity for a trip to the ER, the current money race remains SOCA $70, UVA ER $0.

Athletic? Nope.

Great Sunday of Sports yesterday. The soccer team won its first non-forfeit win of the past 2 seasons in a surprising goal-fest, 5-1. In bigger news, I suffered no injuries in the game.

In light of last season's ER-apalooza, I will be running a weekly tally of this season's cost; last year the league cost me $70 and then I paid a small dowry to the medical staff at UVA Health Services.

This far, I've paid $70 to SOCA and $0 to the ER.

To cap Sunday off, we swept two games of dodgeball in convincing fashion. Good times were had by all, including the birthday boy himself, who absolutely tagged a slow-footed doe on the other team three times before she declared herself out. The K is all about equality and Title 9 on the dodgeball court; all are subject to his 13 mph stinger.

Today, athletic humility returned in fine fashion. I managed to trip while running on the treadmill, and suffered a nice hand/wrist injury catching myself. I hurt my hand. While running. Everyone around me gasped as I managed to break my fall by splaying my upper body across the top of the treadmill, while my legs continued their journey to nowhere at a 6 mph clip. I somehow managed to right myself and continue running, though after that my heart just wasn't in it anymore. And I had to go ask the front desk for a band aid, because my hand was bleeding from the treadmill. Good times, good times.

This is what I looked like, except less coordinated.

Pull 'em up...

What's it like driving a school bus?

This would be a pretty bad day.





As a side note, this is one of the many reasons kids are not allowed to use cell phones in school or on buses. These frantic phone calls to parents stir everything up and escalate situations too fast. And the main girl in this situation makes everything worse by her attitude and actions.

Sparky

Quick plug for my favorite local band, Sparky's Flaw. They're the cover story this week over at C-ville weekly. You can check out the story here or by picking up a hard copy anywhere around town.

As a side note, I don't read C-ville Weekly as a general rule. I find it to be sophomoric in humor, genuinely unfunny, and slanted to the left; the latter I can understand, with liberal being the prevalent ideology here in Cville. I prefer The Hook instead, which is funnier, better managed and more interesting than its competitor. But I digress... [The Hook, for the record, has done a couple of cover stories on the band over the years.]

That all being said, this article is well-written and worth reading. It gives a interesting look into the lives of a great group of guys who have worked really hard to get to where they are. I highly recommend you read it and visit the guys' website.

SLLLLLLA

On Saturday a couple of us took the School Leaders' License Assessment. It began at 7:30am [!] and luckily for me it was given over at UVA. Some people drove in from D.C or other points. All for the privilege of paying $500 to take a 6 hour essay exam. Thanks, ETS.

My hand hurts. Still. It's Monday, and it's a little sore; this is most likely my fault, as I never mastered the correct handwriting grip so perfectly displayed to the left here. It's been a long time [never] since I hand wrote for six hours. I ran out of ink in one pen.

Compared to 'real' injuries or other professional licensing exams [e.g. the Bar, Medical Boards, etc], this has been easy.

But at least this exam provided an opportunity for a rare event: a January blog post.

And by the way, ETS [the company that produces and sells the academic cash cows of the SAT, GRE, SLLA, Praxis, etc etc etc] is listed as an organization on the web. Their website is www.ets.org. Get that? Dot Org! Not dot com. That means that they're an organization, not a company. Really? How is that possible?