By The Numbers
After surviving day one of the coaches' conference, I note the following numbers:
54 - The number of minutes that debate coaches criticized the state of debate.
22 - The number of times one school mentioned that their forensics program has no funding.
7 - The number of times one coach referred to another coach as her mentor. I was hoping to hear the word "mentee," but was disappointed.
4 - The number of minutes spent arguing by two coaches who ignored the facilitator's request for them to stop arguing with each other.
3 - The number of times that one coach put chewing tobacco into his mouth.
1 - The number of coaches that wore a fake Indiana Jones hat during the meeting.
0 - The number of coaches wearing a cooler shirt than mine.
I hope to be equally attentive during tomorrow's meeting.
posted by magic, and with love from Sam, at 7:31 PM
7 Comments:
Sam, you were TOTALLY attentive. Were you taking notes on a napkin? This isn't a rhetorical question. I genuinely want to know.
9/08/2006 11:15 PM
I will give you twenty dollars if you wear one of those beer-dispensing helmets. By the way, I know exactly who you're talking about in this post. Welcome to hell, Mathies. Welcome to hell.
9/08/2006 11:16 PM
RESPONSE TO HAYLIE:
My notes were not on a napkin - I actually had a notepad. I had been noticing/timing these significant issues during the meeting, and wrote them down during the late afternoon, while a coach complained about her students' grades (which is not a conference problem, so I decided to pre-blog).
9/09/2006 6:44 AM
that's pretty much amazing, and by amazing, I mean, i am really glad I am not there. However, you should write down how many times the discussion gets hijacked. It'll make you cry, BUT if you hold up your pen everytime it is hijacked...(holding up your pen to signal the troops that you;re underattack, of course), you'll be a lot more entertained.
9/09/2006 7:38 AM
Ah. Clever. I had a teacher once in high school who flipped his hair a lot (it was pretty much as hideous as it sounds) and I think I counted one day. Not really my most amusing story.
9/09/2006 9:39 AM
would you say you have been seeing EYE to EYE with any particular coaches from Crewis and Bark?
9/09/2006 11:42 AM
Gotta say... all of your entries are entertaining, but some make me laugh out loud more loudly than others, and this was one of them. Counting - if that's not a Mathies trait, I'm not (nor was I ever) a Mathies!
(That's alotta negatives... I'm confusing myself.)
9/09/2006 2:57 PM
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