Day 186: Taco Tuesday

 

July 5th, 2011Maybe it’s a bad thing to starve every single day when I work. As usual this morning I went to EH&S to work, and then bused to Waigenhaim to continue my ThinkTogether summer program (Day 6). As usual more playground gossip was provided to me at lunch, noting of interest that the girl’s ex has a new love interest, but that new love interest also has a love interest of her own. Torrie, Berkelee and I decided it was probably best not to intervene, because the result of some of our advice (mostly mine) has resulted in subsequently large amounts of melodrama. Because the girls still come up to me for love advice however, I have to respond positively and try to mellow them out, stressing that life is more than about boys (especially at this age)…. In middle school I didn’t have any relationships. Granted, I was an extreme nerd at the time, but still it’s hard to believe that kids are now starting “relations” at a younger and younger age. At lunch I also chatted with a few other people, including a girl who kept talking about books. I pretended to be interested for a while, but then she ranted on and on for 10 minutes, revealing the entire plot of the story. Something about vampires, demons, and death. Scary. I tried my best to pay attention, but under the guise of sunglasses I was able to get away with bored facial expressions.

In period 1, I taught film, showing clips of the Wizard of Oz and Casablanca, before telling them to make storyboards and scripts for their movie projects. This went relatively well. I would have hated doing group projects as a kid, being super shy and all, but I now realize the importance of being able to communicate with others. Period 2 was math, and the kids were a little rowdy, but somehow with the bribery of tickets, I was able to make them take a test passively as well as do worksheets for the rest of the period, offering such shameless rewards such as “first person who finishes gets to draw on the board, or second person who finishes gets to choose the next song to play on my Itunes!” The only difficulty I had was one kid who pretended to be stupid so he didn’t have to do any work. So tragic. Let’s be realistic, it’s extremely hard to make math fun, especially when the teacher himself doesn’t like it. In period 3, I taught film again, and the kids were even more excited than the ones in period 1. After leaving, I ate some Popeyes (TUESDAY SPECIAL DEAL YEEE)!

When I got back to campus, I rushed on over to Geetha’s place to hang out. We went to the Cyber Cafe for a bit so I could splurge on Internet usage, before proceeding to El Torito for Taco Tuesday where I took my picture of the day. I need to remember to never forget my camera again…. The food was decent though as we bumped into Tyler, Hermano, and Manuel as we were walking again. After some conversation, I departed back to my apartment, walking back and almost getting run over by a car. I ended the night Amish style – by doing laundry (electronically of course).

On July 5, 1946, French designer Louis Reard unveils a daring two-piece swimsuit at the Piscine Molitor, a popular swimming pool in Paris. Parisian showgirl Micheline Bernardini modeled the new fashion, which Reard dubbed “bikini,” inspired by a news-making U.S. atomic test that took place off the Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean earlier that week. European women first began wearing two-piece bathing suits that consisted of a halter top and shorts in the 1930s, but only a sliver of the midriff was revealed and the navel was vigilantly covered. In the United States, the modest two-piece made its appearance during World War II, when wartime rationing of fabric saw the removal of the skirt panel and other superfluous material. Meanwhile, in Europe, fortified coastlines and Allied invasions curtailed beach life during the war, and swimsuit development, like everything else non-military, came to a standstill. OH DEAR.

President Barack Obama said Wednesday he wants a deal with Congress in the next two weeks to tackle mounting deficits and allow an increase in the federal debt ceiling, but he didn’t rule out using a constitutional argument to increase how much money the government can borrow. “I don’t think we should even get to the constitutional issue,” Obama said during a Twitter town hall at the White House in response to a tweeted question on whether he would rely on a clause in the Fourteenth Amendment to unilaterally raise the debt ceiling. STFU OBAMA, You’re a Tard.

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