Baseball and Poker

Speel check is for wimps.

Despite the fact that I've never played poker for real in my life, I taught it in class today. We used candy to bet with and generally had a good time. I highly reccomend it for anyone looking for a way to teach American culture, hook kids on gambling and get them really wound up with sugar.
But wait there's more!
The second lesson today was basball idioms. And holy crap there are a lot of them. Over an hour of straight lecture's worth. Once I started I couldn't stop. I gave up on the stupid 80-20 rule a long time ago. Students don't need to speak to learn, do they? They've got the whole rest of the day to speak! Anyway, I was tired after that and let them go pretty darn early for lunch. And now I'm here, writing this post instead of grading some stuff I need to grade. What am I, lazy?
Yes.

Anyway, I just realized I have three days of class + one final + one day to give certificates. I don't think I'm going to have time to teach through the major themes of Western Civilization via the LOTR series (including the Hobbit and Silmarillion).

Heroes + Boon = Booyah.

C'mon Sonics. 2-0 doesn't bode well. My fearless predction? Not very feraless: four game sweep by the Spurs OR a Sonics win in seven. Looks like broom time. Could someone return the real Rashard to us? Jeez.

Russ's Victory Day post is awesome. Give him much props.