{"id":5862,"date":"2012-11-30T11:17:43","date_gmt":"2012-11-30T16:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/?p=5862"},"modified":"2012-12-01T13:54:03","modified_gmt":"2012-12-01T18:54:03","slug":"retrobruxist-friday-113012-or-everything-something-nobody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/30\/retrobruxist-friday-113012-or-everything-something-nobody\/","title":{"rendered":"Retrobruxist Friday 11\/30\/12, or Everything Something Nobody"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hey, visually-oriented Bruxistists, what do you think about the link<\/strong> color?\u00a0I tried purple, but it didn’t pop. My graphic designer suggested hot pink, but it looked a little too Miami Vice for me. Burnt orange? Does it go with the other colors? If not, what does?<\/p>\n

The Mexican braised beef<\/a>\u00a0that I cooked(!) is delicioso<\/em>. I’m eating it in lettuce wraps with radishes and cilantro. The only sad thing is there’s all this nom-nom sauce left over, and it’s begging for a big hunk of bread to sop it up. Drinking it would be frowned-upon, right?<\/p>\n

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I missed 12% by six-thousandths of a point<\/a> three years ago<\/strong>. Got it<\/a>\u00a0a year later, but what a crock. Getting my National Boards didn’t make me a better teacher. You know what has made me a better teacher? (1) Wanting to become a better teacher, and (2) working with good people who also want to become better teachers. That’s it.<\/p>\n

Now\u00a0I feel\u00a0kind of trapped by the 12% (#FWP). I can’t move out of my Middle Child Generalist certification area (3rd-6th grades) and keep the salary bump. And I don’t\u00a0know if\u00a0I really want to teach Middle Children anymore. Middle Earth Children would be fun.<\/p>\n

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Adorbz.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’m certified to teach high school English<\/a>, but 12%! Ducks, but water<\/a>. Wah, wah, wah.<\/p>\n

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About three times a month, somebody tells me I’ve lost weight<\/a>, like they did two years ago<\/strong>. And five, ten, and twenty years ago. Now I just say, “Huh. I wouldn’t know. I don’t weigh myself.” They usually try to reassure me that their assessment is correct. Then I just look at them and shrug and look baffled. Then they awkwardly walk away. It’s fun.<\/p>\n

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A year ago<\/strong>, I participated in a\u00a0CrossFit competition<\/a> against my cousin. Except that the whole thing happened inside my skull because I’m very crazy. She posted on Facebook recently that she’d gotten her first muscle-up…<\/p>\n

Yeah. I’m not ever, ever, ever, ever going to be able to do a muscle-up.<\/p>\n

And I’m actually OK with that. I was telling a friend recently that I grew up feeling inferior because my elder siblings were smarter than I was<\/a>. After therapy and transformational\u00a0seminars<\/a> and inspirational quote-of-the-day calendars,\u00a0I decided that was untrue! I had made it up! Empowerment!!1!<\/p>\n

But later, I realized, it is true<\/strong>, and that’s OK<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Because the fact is I’m smart enough AND — they’d tell you this too —\u00a0neither of my siblings could\/would get up and host the Monti StorySLAM, and I can\/do. I’d love to be intellectually brilliant like my brother and sister, but I have other talents. So it is with my cousin. Nobody’s good at everything, but everybody’s good at something. Or as my buddy Phil said recently, everything something nobody.<\/p>\n

OK me, fine also you, both.<\/p>\n

Happy Retrobruxist Friday, y’all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hey, visually-oriented Bruxistists, what do you think about the link color?\u00a0I tried purple, but it didn’t pop. My graphic designer suggested hot pink, but it looked a little too Miami Vice for me. Burnt orange? Does it go with the other colors? If not, what does? The Mexican braised beef\u00a0that I cooked(!) is delicioso. I’m … Continue reading Retrobruxist Friday 11\/30\/12, or Everything Something Nobody<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5872,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,15,8,20,14,7,12],"tags":[105,77,106],"class_list":["post-5862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-call-me-crazy","category-cookin","category-fambly","category-first-world-problems","category-gluten-freek","category-teaching","category-liftin-heavy-objects-over-ma-head","tag-monti","tag-retrobruxist","tag-storyslam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5862"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5878,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5862\/revisions\/5878"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}