"Are you listening with your ears, Davy Jones? Are you making good life choices?"
This morning my meditaion group attended a meeting with the occupational therapist working with us on our community service project. We are partnering with Our Hourse of Portland, which is a home and community center for people with HIV/AIDS. We went to their facility and planned some activities for the next 4 or 5 weeks. I felt nervous about going
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I'd be nervous about interacting with people who had a fatal disease, too. Just don't share blood and you should be fine. (Be careful with those pumpkin-carving knives.) Even then, I think the official risk of transmission is lower than the hysterical public school material we all had to read in fourth grade makes it out to be.
Cut to:
Int. Health Class
Gym Teacher: Don't have sex. Don't handle sharp objects. Don't go within 500 feet of homeless people. If you do any of these things, you will get AIDS, and you will DIE.
(pause, while all of the students stare at him in silent horror)
Anybody want some candy?
(On an unrelated note, why the hell is it that gym/health seems to be a common combination where middle/high school faculty specialities are concerned? Is it because you don't really need a brain to teach either at that level?)
Also, please don't die. That would be bad. *slays the evil PCAT*
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I was driving to the bookstore today, and I passed this guy with a cardboard sign that said Seattle, and I was like "Dude. Totally."
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Like, it would be like a sort of gas-mask kind of thing. And it would be totally sound-proof. So then you could sing as loud as you want in public, but no one could hear you.
Then you could sing at the top of your lungs on the bus, and no one would care.
This is an incredible idea!!!! I'm so going to suggest to someone that they should make it.
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