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   While I was away, I had my students do some writing about mountain climbing for the Friday Funny feature I include in their curriculum.  Nobody went for the low-hanging fruit to answer "You're almost there," but Nadim got bonus points for his one-word, incomplete sentence.

   In the Bad Timing Department (for me), an event at the State Theater promoting voting was organized by Natalie Merchant while I was out of town.  She forgot to check in with me.  Thankfully, lots of other locals were around to join her on stage, and our district did elect a (hopefully effective) progressive representative in the House.

This was the Friday Funny the week after the trip (several writing responses omitted):

”I guess that’s the basic difference between us, Mary Ann.  You come here because you love the outdoors, and I come here because I hate people.”

Why do you think I was sitting there?

 

And again from Nadim: You was sitting because you wanted to fly but you say oh not today