You must remember this . . .

I really enjoyed this meme the last time around.

dernelof recently posted it, and I owe her one, but please feel free:

Please post a comment with an entirely fictional and made-up memory ofyou and me. It can be anything you want - good or bad - as long as itis fake. When you're finished, post this little paragraph on your blogand be surprised about what people don't actually remember about you.

The last part is optional.

I am not editing your blog. ;) Ooooooh, no.

Post a picture of yourself!

Yes, I love getting responses to memes.

I have only seen one other person do this. (I have seen the LJ icon meme more, but I like this one.

This was a difficult one for me to do, because while I have thousands and thousands of pictures on fickr, I have realtively few of myself, and most of them are not overly flattering.

Anyway, post a picture of yourself if you'd like.



Obviously, at Pennsic!

Thursday night: Quite the E-ticket of a day . . . .

1. This was going to be quite the whiny post, but I rebounded, thanks to long, serious discussions about the nature of snark. Took my mind off all the other crap.

2. The day started in the middle of the night, with a pointless panic attack. I hate that shit. But it's so dark at 3 or 4 a.m. I did get back to sleep.

3. Work was amazingly craptastic, although one of the folks I respect the most there disagreed when I said I sucked at office politics. He said I have a good way of handling people. The only handling I wanted to do today was of necks, with both hands. No, it wasn't that bad. Just a matter of people wanting to bo their jobs and mine. I am just not used to this crap. Yes, there was politics in school too, but I could deal. Tomorrow will include a breakfast honoring local Outstanding Students, four of whom are involved in ACT For Youth, followed by a couple of meetings and a delicious lunch in Cambridge. (Yes, jenphalian, I will get the info on the bowls).

4. Also felt better after cutting up the potatoes, carrots and pork, adding the lemon-cilantro saucse, the curry paste and the oregano and getting dinner cooking.

5. Remember, never be an Athol!

6. Looks like we're not gonna get the storm for Saturday, so I will be spending it at a Youth Development Conference (with sideshownate). That means Monday off!

7. Anyone gonna be free around Albany after 4 p.m. Saturday?

Thursday night: And there's more . . .

1. I really enjoyed the responses to the photo meeme today. I really like that picture of me. I was not angry or anything, just trying to look serious. Thanks to those who have posted and propogated.

2. For some reason, while putting clothes away, I broke out into a stirring rendition of "Dance With Who Brung You" as done by Asleep at the Wheel. No, evilnicola, I did not follow it with "Ain't nobody here but us chickens."

3. Day-um dinner smells good.

4. Here's what I miss about teaching: When I got home between 2:30 and 3 p.m., even if I had schoolwork to do later, I still had time for a serious nap. Getting home at 5 p.m., it just doesn't work that way.

5. Ya know, it's kinda cool when someone's obituary includes a picture of them sitting at a spinning wheel. (Valerie J. Marr of Springfield, York County, NB, not someone I think many people here knew).

6. Maybe I will leave instructions to use the kilt photo. I do have to re-write my obit. I lost it when the computer crashed.

"Bill Toscano finally shut up yesterday."

Thursday night -- High school sports edition . . .

1. OKLAHOMA CITY (AP)—After a blowout win in the opening round of the state high school girls’ basketball tournament, Preston coach Mickey Duncan just wanted to return to his hotel room and watch tape of his next opponent.

Instead, he ended up in the emergency room and the father of one of his players ended up in jail, accused of assaulting the coach because his daughter had not started.

Duncan was left with a dislocated elbow, the latest in a string of violent outbursts in several states involving parents and youth coaches.

Duncan was in the gym lobby following Preston’s 76-46 win against Crowder on Thursday night when 42-year-old Jeffrey Abbott allegedly hit him. Duncan said Abbott threw him into a wall about 15 feet away, and the coach’s elbow hit the corner of a picture frame.

The rest is here. From Associated Press

2. TOPEKA -- The Kansas State High School Activities Association will discuss implementing a policy that would prohibit its member and approved schools from discriminating against referees.

The topic will be covered at the next association meeting, on March 11.

It comes after a female referee was told last month that she could not call a boys high school basketball game. Referee Michelle Campbell says officials at St. Mary's Academy near Topeka did not feel she should have authority over boys because she is a woman.

St. Mary's Academy officials say they prefer male role models oversee activities for boys at the school.

There now is no policy that prohibits KSHSAA schools from discriminating against referees on the basis of gender, race or other factors.

 -- Kansas City Star

3. SPARTANBURG, S.C. (AP) - A Spartanburg lawmaker has introduced a bill requiring officials to use television replays to resolve close calls in high school football and basketball games.

Representative Harold Mitchell tells the Spartanburg Herald-Journal he filed the bill after Spartanburg High's 50-48 loss to Summerville High in Friday's Class 4A boys' state title game.

Spartanburg's Zycorrian Robinson hit a three-quarters court shot at the buzzer that would have won the game, but the referees waived it off after huddling for a minute.

High School League Executive Director Jerome Singleton says the organization follows national high school rules that do not allow referees to check replays.

More from WCBD, Charleston, SC

4. A recruiting event -- for middle-school players:

A football combine for junior-high students created a stir of controversy recently among area high-school varsity coaches.

It happened when a list of high school were placed on the combine application form without those coaches knowing.

The Great Lakes Invitational Jr. High Combine is scheduled for tomorrow at Wayne State University, open to seventh and eighth graders with a 2.0 grade point or better.

More from The News-Herald, somewhere in Central Michigan.

5. Well, some folks say hunting is a sport:

NORTH BERWICK, Maine — Everyone in town, it seems, has an opinion on a raffle for a six-day bear hunting excursion intended to help fund a trip to New York City for Noble High School music students.

Some say it's "inappropriate," that associating a bear hunt with a school activity is "sending a bad message."

Others, including students at the school, say it's an "original" way to raise money and that the issue is being blown out of proportion because bear hunting, after all, is legal in Maine.

Whether people like it or hate it, tickets for the bear raffle will continue to be sold despite residents and animal activists approaching the school board to protest the raffle. -- More from Fosters Daily Democrat