December 30, 2006

• Marry BMX-mas

  

  Marry BMXmas to all! Oh, and Happy Hanukkah. I can not tell you how many times I’ve been an assumed christian here in Utard. I have not once reciprocated their greeting (which I will not report here), only saying Happy Holidays. I mean, what if I assumed you were Canadian and I wished you a Happy Boxing day? That’s wouldn’t be very nice or appropriate. I mean, I’m more atheist than Jewish, but if I had to pick a religion, I’d be Jewish (my mom is, and religion is typically matriarchal). But almost no one wished me a Happy Hanukkah.

  

  Liz and Ian were our oh-so-gracious hosts.

  
  

  Anywho, we did our Holiday thing with Aly’s fams in Logan, and it was great. I got some cool presents.

  

  But the best present was Ians. He got a BMX frame, the custom of his fav biker. He literally convulsed when he opened it. If you couldn’t tell from the tree, he’s really into bikes.

  

  Here’s the finished product. He just ordered the forks (the thing that holds the front tire) in the same color as the frame. Pretty bad ass.

  
  

  One of the best things we had was food!  All kinds of great mucnhies.

  
  

  On BMXmas day, we drove up to Pocatello for more fams. Here’s little Zander’s first BMX, with pegs and all. Cute!

  

  On the Yahoo! Answer’s front, by my calculation, I should be #10 on the top 10 list for Science and Mathematics.  But I’m not.  I don’t know why.  Less than a dozen of my over 700 best answers are outside of the Sci&Math category.  I’d complain, but I don’t know who would listen.  On the bright side, I got a cool magnet and hat just for the countless waisted hours on that site!

  Oh yeah, I should be even more of a stranger the next 3 months.  My student teaching starts on wednesday!  I am looking forward to it, but it will be hard and very time consuming.  Al least I will be completely finished with my M.A. in mid April.  And then it’s so long, teaching suckers!  I more and more am leaning toward going into geology jobs, specifically mining when this is all over.

  If you are really, REALLY board, you can check out my class blog and website, which is my Yahoo! 360 page.  I have set it up under the address www.MattAffolter.com.  I am going to put daily updates for parents, and links to web resources and pictures for the kiddies.  First up for them, minerals and rocks!

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