Old people don’t have friends.

I was walking down the hall with a student of mine when another teacher passed and I waved and said “Hi”.  The student said “You can’t do that, old people don’t say “Hi” in the halls.”  A few feet later one of her friends passes and she waved and said “Hi”.  I asked how come she can say “Hi” and I can’t.  This is when she informed me “Old people don’t have friends, they’re supposed to spend all their attention on their jobs!”  I didn’t know whether to laugh or to cry.

I laughed.

How to put a link into your comment (on Blogger)

I figured this out over the weekend.  Hope you find it useful.

 

Reflections

I was checking out the new Blog of Note list and came across written inc.  On the second post, when I got there, was a couple of pictures of a Hummer.   Not the real one, one of those Chevy faux things.  The first sentence of that post was “I'll come right out and admit it: I'm a bit of a car freak,”.  My interest is piqued.  Then he goes on to slam the faux-Hummer culture, finishing the post with his photographic assignment for the week.  Hook, line & sinker.

So, here’s my homework.  Actually, it’s times like this that I’m convinced there is some power helping choreograph my life, because I took this yesterday (before I saw the assignment) and was looking for a way to prominently present it.  I couldn’t decided if I liked it better right side up or upside down.  I’ll let my readers decide.

   So, written inc., here are my reflections.

La Derrière Rouge

Ok, so it’s pronounced like beautiful, not your butt, either way I had an enjoyable afternoon with Writer up at  the University of Utah’s Red Butte Garden.  We walked around, talked and took pictures.  Pictures of flowers, bushes, the mountains, buildings and fish.  At the fish pond I bought a handful of food, threw it all in at once and took rapid-fire pictures of the fish response.  (Writer fed them one piece at a time).  It looked pretty funny on the little screen on my camera as we flipped through the pictures so I agreed to make this little video.  It’s real short, less than a minute, so if it’s boring you’ll only waste a few seconds.  Below the video you’ll find a link to the picture gallery with what I considered the best photos.  Hope you enjoy.

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Just in case you were wondering, Red Butte is serious when they close their bathrooms.  This is the door to the men’s room, held tight with a huge padlock.  Click on the picture and you’ll see that it is made of thick steel.  I don’t care who you are, you ain’t kicking that thing in!

Dylan