Another Link in the Fence

In case you haven't heard, and I'm sure you have, I got placed at Johnston MS in North Las Vegas for the 2011-12 school year! I can finally resume watching back-to-school commercials with a critical and covetous eye! If you consult their website, you'll notice that one of the social studies teachers has an A+ logo instead of a photo. I think that's me. Still no word on what grade level or subject I'm to teach, but if my careful reading of the district calendar is correct, I may find out as early as Monday!

In gratitude for this, what we might call...cushion against the elements, I thought that I might owe the Universe a little bit of free labor. Although I slept in this morning (I'm still on vacation!) and arrived after most of the labor was already done, I did manage to make an appearance at Community Day at my alma mater, Hammond High School. Here it is now:



Ooh look at the pretty black fence!



There was music playing on the loudspeakers, there was flag football for the kids, sponsored by the Boys and Girls Club, and there was free food and Gatorade. I didn't leave until some lady insisted four times that I eat a hot dog. In the meantime, I had a good conversation with the athletic director. Apparently, this is Hammond High's first Community Day. They put it together in about a month's time. The idea is to get the community and alumni to come out in support of the school "and hopefully," he said, "get some pride back in this place."

I told him that I understand how important that is.

Then I came home and spent the afternoon staring at everybody's favorite database, ABC-CLIO, before heading to my most preferred pizza joint, Aurelio's, with my cousin Joshua, who is almost halfway through his college career at Purdue Calumet.

So it's been a pretty awesome 24 hours. Let's see if we can't keep the awesomeness going.