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I know this may be hard to believe, but I was once a dork. A nerd. A dweeb. Your choice of words. It's hard to visualize, but alas it's true. I was not always one of the cool kids. Yeah, some early morning sarcasm. Point to this is that I was diagnosed as needing classes around age 12. I hated them. Downright hated them. I refused to wear them. I would get to school and hide them away. When I turned 25 I finally broke down and got contacts. Now 20 years later I can't imagine life without contacts, except... I am tired of not having glasses for times like this in the morning. I need to see but I can't. I sit one inch from the screen in the morning so I can type. I don't wear the glasses I have because Clinton was in office when I last had the prescription (and the frames) updated. I found some decent ones at a store in town last night. They are having a sale and I can get a backup pair for under $200. Nerds are in style again so what the hell.

Taught my class yesterday. Horrible group. It's one of those groups who can't figure out the mute button and don't have any energy and won't answer when I ask questions. Drives me nuts. I hate passive groups like this. 3 asians, one Indian, one white person based on names. Why does that matter? Because certain types of people behave certain ways in classes. The asians are rude, don't want to joke around, and demand answers to their questions. The indians (female in this case) don't have confidence, are too timid to type, and lag behind. Yes I am generalizing but this is my experience from teaching thousands of people from different nationalities. Some traits show themselves over and over.

One issue during class - this was the first day class where I had the AC unit in. The sound from the outside was killing me. B went to the store for me and got some foam. During lunch we quickly replaced the plastic sheeting on one side, jammed the foam in there, and reapplied the sheeting. It's better but still not perfect. Still a lot of outside noise. I need to weatherstrip one more area if I want to totally eliminate the noise. Need to add that to the list.

Finished at 3:01 yesterday. B was napping. I finished her laundry which I started at lunch then I played Lego SWTFA. We ordered a pizza for dinner and then around 7 she wanted ice cream. She wanted a specific flavor of a specific brand and was appalled they didn't sell it in ice cream shops. What do you expect? We either have chains or artisanal places. Not just mom and pop ice cream places. Sorry. We did find it for sale by the pint at least. That's also where I found the glasses. Fred Meyer has everything. Got back, watched a little TV, and we both went to bed around 10:30.

Weekend is a three day this time around. 4th of July then my birthday. Only 6 days until my birthday. Not excited to be honest. We're going to Astoria for the night just to get out of town, but meh. It can come and go for all I care.