Truth

Amazing.

Rehobeth

Beach day with Ben, Megan, and the "crew".

Fireworks

Abby, Christina, and Ben on the bluff  at the Cove pre fireworks. Crappy pic. Good times.

America!

Nate and Nat being... themselves.

LINK

Aaron, Andrew, Rene, and Beth-Anne practicing for link worship.

Philly

Impromptu cheese steak run with Morgan and Tyler. Because sometimes you need to drive through three states to get a sandwich.

For Realz

Not for fakes.

Derby!

At Du Burns Arena in Baltimore w the crew from Sandy Cove. Beth Weaver aka 40KV aka Anatazeya 4 lyfe y'all.

This Barrel Is Full Of Crack!

Wait, that's not right is it...

Da Bowl

K & S watching guitarness pre Spiderman premiere.

Late Night Recording Sesh

Mackenzie, Cole, and Ian during second night of late night recording "Salvation is Here" for some Sandy Cove commercial type thing. They be legit.

The Actual Cove

With Gabe, Austin and Julius. End of Summer Together week 1 of 5.

Ben Temple:

"Is the scent of America 'Vanilla Pride'? Well it sure ain't chocolate."
#racistdragons

Me & Mr. F

The Cove picture day. Summer 2012.

Summer Together - Week 1...

...is abso totes cray cakes. So the convo I just had was me asking a dude guys I gets along with how I can be a better dorm dad. He said mucho encouraging things, but also just spending more time with the boys. Which is super good advice while simultaneously feeling like I've failed even thought at was the farthest (furthest?) from what he was trying to communicate but my brain is having difficulty processing because for these weeks I don't actually leave the office and I haven't yet deciphered how to appropriate time for the asks required alongside the relational aspect which are both mucho important.

Things that happened today:
- Lunch.
- Decided with Christina on next Unhindered question.
- Got Star Toursy motion sick on a boat. Both fun and vommy.
- Napped of the vommy w music.
- Taught 20 eight count to Karmin's "Broken Hearted."
- Went to McD's.
- Hung out with Nat and Mel in a hallway.
- Went back to McD's with Nat, Mel, and B.
- Hung out at the cottage with Morgan and the Temple bros.
- Sleep.

Fin.

Things I Shoulda Posted Weeks Ago

Near impossible to articulate how the last episode if this season's SNL is like the most unforeseeable bookend to some legitimate necessary endings that were the last seven years.  Not so much the "I'm finally off he nose candy!" necessary as much as a "there is a time for everything under the blah blah bitty blah..." and the like. If SNL serves as the meta-narrative constant that has knit  my ever-changing (and appropriately so) life together for the better part of a decade, the cast singing goodbye to  K. Wiig (not to mention Samberg's final line in the TBD last Digital Short ever) hit me in the face like something really heavy hitting someone in the face. Twas cray cakes to the max of crying myself a river I did not see coming: Seeing the DirtyDozen about to graduate high school; knowing my 08ers are leaving college and fully absorbing that jazz. It's like a whole thing.

" 'Cause Weez Be Goin' To Breadsticks." -Santana Lopez

By which I mean my purchase of tix for Coachella 2013 has officially been completed. Janelle Monae and No Doubt please :) A little Ra RA Riot prob wouldn't hurt either.

Students: "Mr. Jones, do you like us?"

Mr. Jones: "Yes. Do you believe me?"
Students: "Nope."

A streamlined version of class convos earlier today. Not every student concurred, but the lack of verbalized dissenting responses lead to a more than not unified opinion.

*** The Conclusion to This Most Fantastic of Tales ***

I'm difficult for my students to read. Or I'm a big fat jerk face. Either way, success!

Hello America!

Less than five weeks until life at The Cove sets in. It's gonna be... moist. Yeah, moist is a good word.