{"id":1170,"date":"2007-02-23T03:03:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-23T03:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1170"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:35:44","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:35:44","slug":"five-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1170","title":{"rendered":"Five things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/cannonposer.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5034545510370474114\" style=\"FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/cannonposer-288x300.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">I&#8217;ve avoided doing this meme thing, but am clueless tonight for anything to write about. The most interesting tidbit I&#8217;ve come up with so far is to tell you about the student I had to speak with after class last night because his behavior was so inappropriate. Anyone care to guess what this 18 year old young man&#8217;s excuse was? Turns out that the 20 year old sitting next to him was tickling him. Since when are young men still tickling one another in college? I left elementary-level teaching because I&#8217;m ill-equiped to do deal with this type of silliness. 10 year olds don&#8217;t understand my sarcasm, but you can bet this young man did.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">So I&#8217;m supposed to come up with a list of things you don&#8217;t know about me. The challenge here is to make it entertaining.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">When I was 15 or 16 years old I decided that I wanted to join the Peace Corps and travel to exotic places and help poor people, so I sent away for the information packet and application, but when it arrived it scared the crap out of my dad and I got a talking to.  I also dated a guy from Costa Rica for a few years and my dad was afraid I&#8217;d run off and be living on a coffee farm.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">I love green olives.  <em>Now that&#8217;s entertaining!<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">I&#8217;ll listen to a song I like over and over and over until I get sick of hearing it.  I do the same with food.  There was a time when I ate tuna on wheat with american cheese for lunch every day until it didn&#8217;t taste good anymore.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">I have hyper-sensitive hearing for oddball sounds.  Mostly annoying ones that drive me to distraction.  Like the sound the ceiling fan is making all of a sudden, or the rattle-and-hum of my car.  My husband, Mr. Fix-It, never hears this stuff.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">I am useless with diagrams &#8211; especially in instruction manuals &#8211; I need a verbal list, preferably in number order, to understand how to do things.  My husband has this intuitive sense of how things work that baffles me.  I routinely have to ask students to help me set up the overhead projector so that they don&#8217;t have to look at things backwards and upside down.  Plus, this semester my classroom is *technologically enhanced* &#8211; but I still need a student to help me get my laptop hooked up so that I can use PowerPoint to teach.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">So that&#8217;s five things you didn&#8217;t need to know about me.  Hopefully, I&#8217;ll be a bit more inspired tomorrow.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve avoided doing this meme thing, but am clueless tonight for anything to write about. The most interesting tidbit I&#8217;ve come up with so far is to tell you about the student I had to speak with after class last night because his behavior was so inappropriate. Anyone care to guess what this 18 year &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1170\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Five things<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}