prepare for the robot attack

tomatoes!!!!! they're as tall as i am. granted, that's nothing to brag about, but for a tomato plant it's pretty impressive.

i started work at the high school i'm teaching at this year. and wow. wow. wow. it's a very small school (~80 students) and they are NUTSO about sports. relatively outrageous, especially considering their records of recent years are not too winning-like, but they're busting with all kinds of history of the sports times of old. it's all oldie-time male faculty members want to talk about. and do they talk about it. constantly. all the time. when they're not talking about how they pummeled so-and-so twenty years ago, they're handing me catholic prayer books. awesome. but the most INSANE thing had to be the faculty in-service conversation surrounding books online and getting our students comfortable and familiar with using online organizers and things like that. you know, bringing them in the 21st century. the math man sitting to my right (the man who, during my interview, after exclaiming that he thought i was a new student, leaned in and sneered at me asking "so what do you know about graphing calculators?) was getting really worked up about "that internet" and went on a three-minute rant about how "you can't get everything off that internet! you need books to do real work! you're either organized or you're not and i'm not throwing the baby out with the bathwater! if we want the internet books so bad why don't we throw all our books out now?! and if books are so unimportant, what are we sitting in here for?" (we were in the library) i just put my head down and wished it would all be over with. i was waiting for him to continue on with how internet books are exactly what the robot people want us to fall for before they start sucking out our brains with their brain probes. and the son-of-a-gun has come into my room twice this week to tell me how awesome TI-83s are and try to give me programming information. i'm swearing off graphing calculators forever and putting up anti-TI propoganda in my room.