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I’ve been tagged. It may not have been the first time Mr. Crunchy tagged me, but it’s the first time I’ve had the energy to play. Here’s how it works, to overtly cut and paste from Mr. C

Here are the rules of this thing:

1. Link to your tagger and post these rules on your blog.

2. Share 7 facts about yourself on your blog; some random, some weird.

3. Tag 7 people at the end of your post by leaving their names as well as links to their blogs.

4. Let them know they are tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.

So….. here goes.

1. I just spent Tuesday through Friday with my 3 daughters, Small, Medium and Eldest. Our weeks together during the summer are always an adjusting process. Small has to get used to being around Medium and Eldest and vice versa, and then they all have to get used to the rules of da house again. Not just the rules of MY house, but my Dad’s house.

2. My dad is a studly, extremely intelligent and intellectual 74 year old widower. He lives in the thriving metropolis of Bloomingdale, NY. Once a suburb of Saranac Lake, Bloomingdale has become an entity unto its own.

3. My neighbor Terra and I have the same birthday, and it’s next month. In addition to our birth dates, Terra and I both suffer from raging Catholic guilt.

4. I mowed my lawn today. The end of my school year was so crazy that I was really looking forward to doing things like mowing the lawn. This feeling usually only lasts for one or two mowings, but this year there doesn’t seem to be an end to the honeymoon period. I’m actually trying to kill my lush lawn naturally this year which adds a real sinister twist to what looks like true suburban domesticity.

5. I’m convinced our nation is going to hell in a handbasket. We’re running out of oil, money and credit. I’m hoping to escape out the back of the handbasked somewhere before we reach hell though, and I want to bring as much of my beloved town of Naples with me as I can.

6. I’m starting my second year as a New England Patriots fan. Last year, I bought a Randy Moss jersey BEFORE the season even started because I knew all he needed was a year with Tom Brady to secure his place on Mount Olympus. He still needs to climb Mt. Lombardi though.

7. I’m getting ready to teach Advanced Placement US Government and Politics for the first time next year. In the process of reading and listening to random stuff to get ready, I’ve stumbled in the fact that I might be an anarchist. I used to think anarchy was just mob rule… a surprisingly ignorant belief on my part. Thanks to a Noam Chomsky video, I’m finding it’s much, much more. My youthful charge Chelsea actually gave me a pretty good schooling on the role of Anarchists in the Spanish Civil War. Damn. I love it when the kids take the old man to school.

I’m tagging Kilgore, because I’ve been such an antisocial blogger that he’s the only person left that’s still speaking to me, besides Mr. C. Yes, that’s only one. Screw it.

Filed under: General Observations on July 27th, 2008