Happy Father’s Day!

Yesterday was bizarre. After probably one of the most tense lunches ever, Teacher Sis and I went to do our weirdest and probably most favorite thing ever. But before I get to that, here’s what I had for lunch:

Ridiculous.

Anyway, every year after school has let out, the janitorial staff at one of our local junior highs (one that Teacher Sis has an “in” at) empties all of the lockers and class rooms of stuff that students have left behind. Literally, the lost and found. It is all spread around the library and T.S. and I spend hours going through it all. Why? Because we’re scavengers. And that’s precisely what we spent our afternoon doing yesterday.

Pencils, pens, notebooks, filler paper, calculators, rulers, highlighters, you name it. If it is on that list of stuff you bought for your kids at the beginning of the year, we find it, pristine, in their abandoned backpack. Right next to that mp3 player that desperately had to have. Cell phones? You bet. And clothes galore. Mostly coats and sweatshirts, though. My score yesterday included:

2 cell phones

an mp3 player

a pair of Nikes for Operation B

an Eddie Bauer laptop bag

a Razorback windbreaker for Pancake Land

a Stearns raincoat

a trash bag full of hoodies

and all of the school supplies I will need to finish college

Not bad for two hours worth of work. When the apocalypse comes, I know that we’ll survive. Pure dirt? You need pure dirt? I’m on it.

I couldn’t sleep last night, so I got up and worked on my Physics homework. We’re dealing with momentum right now. So I’ve been calculating how fast a pool ball is going when it strikes another pool ball. Stuff like that. I’m so unfocused right now. It is almost painful to pay attention to anything for more than 15 seconds. And my temper is on a hair trigger. Edgy and unfocused, what’s a man to do? Drive a truck to go to church with his family for Father’s day? Here’s how I feel about that:

I’ve got to go get ready for church. More soon. ~SC