Andy's Holiday Greeting
Here's a mass email that went out to my far-flung friends:
Hey everyone!
Happy holidays! Merry Christmas! Feliz Navidad! Happy Hanukkah! Happy Festivus! What’s happening? If you’re getting this, it probably means that I don’t talk to you nearly enough.
First off, I want to thank the people who still send cards through the mail (Lee, Marry, Sandy, Pat, Wendy, and Tony). I’m not sending cards this year, but I still plan to send out “best of 2004” CDs. They’re coming. I’m just having trouble keeping it to a single disc this year. I’ll probably be writing some of you for mailing addresses soon. And now…
Here’s the obligatory update:
I’m done with school. Well, almost. I have to take “Intro to Government” this summer. But I’m basically done. I will be student teaching, starting January 4th, at [deleted] High School. It’s a very small school. I’ll be teaching 11th grade English. And I can’t wait.
The past year has been a good one. Having been a half-assed runner for the better part of the past 12 years, this year I became a 3/4-assed runner. Basically I just increased my distance and reduced my days off. The result was a pretty substantial weight loss (20 pounds). Of course, the punch line is that, as of today, I am back up 10 pounds. Rats. Stupid winter.
And speaking of stupid, how about that election? Yeah, perhaps more consuming than running or even homework was my oh-so-desperate desire to see Bush sent packing this November. The outcome was, of course, a huge disappointment in that regard. But on November 3rd, I found myself relieved to have it all over with. I’d had so many altercations, both large and small, messy and messier, over Bush v. Kerry. And now that the dust has cleared, I think the sad insight that I’ve come to about this whole thing is that we’ve all come to a point where any passionate concern for political issues, be they conservative OR liberal, is seen as out of step with the mainstream. The mainstream prefers to get their news from Letterman or Leno, if that. A greater level of engagement than that and you run the risk of being branded an obsessive. Yeah, I know. It’s nuts. This is decidedly important stuff. Yet somehow people have gotten the idea that it’s really not worth following all that closely, if at all. And the result is, well, four more years. Weee! But I don’t mind. I don’t have kids, so I don’t care quite as much as some of you about the future beyond my own lifespan. If people, 51% of them anyway, approve of the alternately inept and corrupt Bush administration, let THEM live with the consequences of another four years. For me, it is beginning to look like I’ll be the end of the family line, so I can ride out the apocalypse with a smile on my face. Again, weee!
My apologies to those of you with kids. It’s not so bad. Really.
…Psst. Do you think they bought it?
Happy holidays everybody!!!
Andy P.
Hey everyone!
Happy holidays! Merry Christmas! Feliz Navidad! Happy Hanukkah! Happy Festivus! What’s happening? If you’re getting this, it probably means that I don’t talk to you nearly enough.
First off, I want to thank the people who still send cards through the mail (Lee, Marry, Sandy, Pat, Wendy, and Tony). I’m not sending cards this year, but I still plan to send out “best of 2004” CDs. They’re coming. I’m just having trouble keeping it to a single disc this year. I’ll probably be writing some of you for mailing addresses soon. And now…
Here’s the obligatory update:
I’m done with school. Well, almost. I have to take “Intro to Government” this summer. But I’m basically done. I will be student teaching, starting January 4th, at [deleted] High School. It’s a very small school. I’ll be teaching 11th grade English. And I can’t wait.
The past year has been a good one. Having been a half-assed runner for the better part of the past 12 years, this year I became a 3/4-assed runner. Basically I just increased my distance and reduced my days off. The result was a pretty substantial weight loss (20 pounds). Of course, the punch line is that, as of today, I am back up 10 pounds. Rats. Stupid winter.
And speaking of stupid, how about that election? Yeah, perhaps more consuming than running or even homework was my oh-so-desperate desire to see Bush sent packing this November. The outcome was, of course, a huge disappointment in that regard. But on November 3rd, I found myself relieved to have it all over with. I’d had so many altercations, both large and small, messy and messier, over Bush v. Kerry. And now that the dust has cleared, I think the sad insight that I’ve come to about this whole thing is that we’ve all come to a point where any passionate concern for political issues, be they conservative OR liberal, is seen as out of step with the mainstream. The mainstream prefers to get their news from Letterman or Leno, if that. A greater level of engagement than that and you run the risk of being branded an obsessive. Yeah, I know. It’s nuts. This is decidedly important stuff. Yet somehow people have gotten the idea that it’s really not worth following all that closely, if at all. And the result is, well, four more years. Weee! But I don’t mind. I don’t have kids, so I don’t care quite as much as some of you about the future beyond my own lifespan. If people, 51% of them anyway, approve of the alternately inept and corrupt Bush administration, let THEM live with the consequences of another four years. For me, it is beginning to look like I’ll be the end of the family line, so I can ride out the apocalypse with a smile on my face. Again, weee!
My apologies to those of you with kids. It’s not so bad. Really.
…Psst. Do you think they bought it?
Happy holidays everybody!!!
Andy P.
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