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From the Students

Last year I had my students write me letters at the end of the year. Some students express gratitude and appreciation, some students are more ambivalent, and many are extremely honest. I have some notes from my one AVID class, and also other comments from my math students.

We can start with AVID:

I love how you teach the class, but I like it more when you’re tired and don’t teach at all while we watch the movie.

You have pretty eyes for a teacher and you don’t dress like a dorky teacher and your funny when your not being mean.

Something you are really good at is normally always getting students to want to do something, but sometimes you start yelling at us for no good reason, and we can’t understand anything you write. I unfortunately am getting almost as bad as you are, and I need to work on it too.

P.S. Don’t wear the shirt next year AT ALL, I will be back to ask.

This year has been really fun. I liked our field trip, our newspaper fashion show, and our story times. Everyone got to make new friends and come together as a family—even Brian.

From my math kids:

P.S. sry if I spelt things wrong

Surprisingly I’ll also miss your handwriting.

Mr. Burill you are my favorite teacher I felt you were the the only teacher that probably cared about me and wanted me to do good your the funniest teacher I had ever had I learned a lot in your class you me a lot ever sence I came to your class I will visit you all the time with Ajene aha well Mr. Burill you’re the best thats all Hope I see you next year Promise I’ll Visit Have a great summer

Maybe this year she will learn to occasionally use some punctuation.

Sometimes I couldn’t quiet follow your odd teaching. But I liked how you would tell your life stories, mostly about your womens! Anyhow, I want to thank you for trying to help me walk by the extra credit assignment, even if I didn’t do it, because obviously I’m such a badass.

This year in your class I hated a lot. And I loved a lot, and I learned more than you would know! Not just Algebra, but as a person. It sounds weird and lame—especially since you’re talks were the cheesiest I’ve ever heard. But you always kept it real, and that’s something I admire because not a lot of adults will do that with teenagers. I appreciate that you told it to us straight knowing that we could handle it. I know period 2 wasn’t your favorite (my sources tell me it was period 4. Really Mr. Burrill?)

p.s. get married soon so your kids next year and years after won’t have to hear about the different vets or whoever you’re dating now. And if you ever actually have kids, try to have more/better patience. Babies don’t like to be yelled at for not remembering the Quadratic Formula.

Drive-Thru

I attended my first drive-thru wedding this year. Ceremony performed while we were sitting in the car.

Thought of the Week

When sending text messages from my iPhone the majority of the time I seem to type "ate" instead of "are" and an ! instead of a ?.

Sometime this makes my text not as clear.

Ate you going to Safeway!

What are you doing here?

Return to the Ring

Beginning Sunday I will temporarily resume my weekly posts. At this time I'm not sure how long I will continue them, but look for it at the end of this weekend.
--Kevin

Phone Service

The following is the summary of my call with Comcast earlier this week:

Me: How much do I pay for phone? For Internet? And everything together?

Comcast Guy: … and everything together with taxes comes to $140/mo.

Me: How much is just basic cable?

Comcast Guy: $32/mo.

Me: I’m just going to go ahead and cancel everything then. What items do I need to return, and do you pick them up or do I need to go to return them?

Comcast Guy: The only thing you have is the DVR… Is there anything we could do that could keep you?

Me: Yeah, make it cheaper.

Comcast Guy: Are you interested in having a phone line?

Me: Not particularly.

Comcast Guy: If you add a phone line and upgrade to the triple play it will save you about $12/mo. But if you want to actually use the phone you will need to rent a different modem which costs $7/mo. 

Me: In order to obtain these additional services that I don’t plan to use what kind of additional equipment would I need to obtain.

Comcast Guy: If you don’t plan to use it then we can provide the service with just your existing equipment.

Me: That’s interesting, but I’m just going to go ahead and cancel.

Comcast Guy: Well… let me look here. I can give you this which would bring you down to about $122/mo.

Me: No. I was hoping to get close to the $90/mo area.

Comcast Guy: Let me look here. I have this offer that would bring you down to $105 for 3 months and then rise to $115 for 3 months and you would keep all the services you currently have.

Me: Deal.

Giants Fan Forever

I saw this a couple days ago at the ballpark. I don't know anything about Tom Maurer, except the Giants won the World Series before he died.