“Police is Watching” December 20, 2004 ~ 3:32 pm
Posted by Julie in : Daily Grind , trackback
Sign in the lobby of an apartment building, Harlem, NYC.
I went to a party in Harlem this weekend (116th and St. Nicholas, fittingly enough for the season) and snapped the picture above with my phone.
Going along with that slice of “I got me some good English learnin’,” I received an email request from a student today. This is what it says:
“H [insert Julie's last name here],
I’m writing to request that my diploma be shipped to my new mailing address asap. Rock on.”
I don’t know, but when I was a student, I don’t think I would have sent out an email to a faculty member that addressed them by their last name and closed with “Rock on”. But maybe that’s just me. Maybe this student thinks we’re homeys. Maybe he will invite me to his graduation party. I’ve had that happen before. Students get weird sometimes. They turn into stalkers. Rock on, stalkers.
And finally, in the “Her father’s son” category, Rick sent the Youngest to get him a beer out of the fridge Saturday while we were watching the Steelers game. She did, and then disappeared into the other room to watch cartoons. At halftime, while we were clearing the lunch carnage, we looked in the fridge to see if we needed more beer. Sitting there as if it belonged, was the empty plastic 6-pack holder from the beer. I repeat, it was empty. Sans beer. I looked at Rick and said “Damn, that was a manly thing for a 9 year old girl to do. She’s definitely your daughter.” He laughed and said “Yeah, I’m gonna have to talk to her about that.”
Questions and recommendations for Friday’s post are still being accepted. Probably till tomorrow afternoon. Ask ‘em if you got ‘em. If you don’t, well…police is watching.
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