According to my Dashboard, I have 16 followers currently! (Yippee!!) So now I need your help! I have to create a blog (using Blogger/Blogspot) for my English Class. YES! It's an assignment! I'm trying to come up with a catchy name, but everything I come up with is taken. I've tried: englishenthusiast literallyliterate loveoflanguage so PLEASE help me! I'll be forever grateful! Thank you so much! Until next time........
WARNING: This post is going to be REALLY long. Don't say you weren't warned! This is the post I have tried to convince myself not to write so that no one's feelings get hurt. However, my feelings got hurt, and so I have a right to write about it! :) Right? I'm not trying to hurt anyone with this, I'm just trying to sort things out in my brain. Writing is my best outlet for that. Anyways, I should preface this by saying that I come from a family that travels in herds/gaggles/armies/groups/whatever you call the large group of people you go out to eat with or hang out with most of the time. This weekend, we had some people come into town. We were invited Friday night to go out to eat with them at 7pm at a restaurant that is infamous for making you wait at least an hour around 7pm. There were going to be 8 adults and 5 kids.....13 total (I think!)! (That's about the normal size for the "army" we travel with here.) The other 10 people arrived around...
I am an NFL fan. I grew up pulling for the Washington Redskins, and I still do. Except, they are now the Washington Football Team . However, when I was a high school senior, the Carolina Panthers arrived in town. They were an expansion team and played about an hour from my home. I am now a fan of both, but I pull more for Washington than Carolina! #httr #httwft A couple of weeks ago, Carolina invited Cam Newton back as quarterback. He's a great athlete and an intelligent player. However, if the plays given to him do not work, why do we blame him? The play callers are sitting in boxes above the field (or on the sidelines) and telling him what to do. Is it his fault if a play doesn't go like it is supposed to? It got me to thinking. Teaching and Football are very similar. I have been in the education field for more than a decade. I am not currently teaching, but I haven't been out so long that I have forgotten what it's like. ...
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