good news

So I got an email this morning. I'll be doing my student teaching at Placer, just like I'd been hoping. Bravo for walking to work, teaching at my alma mater, and already knowing where all the bathrooms are.

quotes of the week

Regarding the need for a receipt when you take back your own Christmas tree you cut down yourself from the forest:

"One year the Forest Service set up a blockade. They caught a lot of Hmong people, too. You know what they found? Squirrels! They had killed all the squirrels and were taking them back with them!"

- The old lady who sold us our Christmas tree last Saturday

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Regarding the Hmong people's apparent affinity for squirrel meat:

"At least they don't waste them."

- Christmas tree lady

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To Dr. James, a regular early morning drive-thru customer at my Starbucks store:

"Will you tell me if this sounds like bronchitis? [Pause for inhale] *COUGH!*"

- one of my fellow baristas, who has been recovering from a cold

Dr. James went on to give her a quick diagnosis from his car. We owe him a free drink.

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