Student "edition" found at {csi dot journalspace dot com}.

Maybe I shouldn't have started this blog now, not with everything that's been going on.

I just realized (almost two months after the fact) that here is where I can write about what Justin and Chat gave me for my birthday without fear of recrimination from judging faces.

It was a big coffee table book about the Playboy Mansion, which was a very thoughtful gift since I talked about having been curious to go there if I was invisible (a dream I had as a teenager) from an answer to the game "Loaded Questions".

It was an honest answer after all, that I gave in the face of all possible backlash to my current profession and question of "morality".

It's not as if it has ever impaired or will ever impair my ability to be fair to the students and take advantage of them.

What's funny at the time (and that particular question in the game) is that someone else (Henry) gave another answer that seemed more like the answer I would give, and that's why I think it stuck in Justin's mind since he got the answer-givers wrong.

That's why I joked with them that we should play another game of "Loaded Questions" before Christmas. To get hints on what to get them? I was asked. No, I replied, to GIVE hints on what I want.

I was kidding of course. I always like the element of surprise in getting gifts.

At least that's a new element put into this journal, and it's not always complaining about students, co-teachers and administrators.

And it still fits into the mold of what I don't want the general student populace to know about, possibly coloring their view of the teacher negatively to the point of distraction.

But in reality, teachers aren't perfect, we have our human side too.

Session 2477 is relieved of these usable avenues of confessional. Class dismissed.