Taking this blog time in a McDonald’s by the stretch of block where all of my kids go to school (though not the same school). My youngest is munching on fries and a burger while the others prepare to run in their weekly track meet. Meanwhile I am feeling the effects of coming back to work after some time off. It didn’t go well. I got sick, I felt far far behind, and I’m pretty sure I fattened up with a bunch of stress eating.
It isn’t the job itself that stresses me out. The lack of preparedness is where I start to fray. I’m not just talking about readiness to teach but the preparedness to fall back into a routine that involves feeding and clothing kids, keeping a house clean, taking kids to and from practice, and trying to have a life of my own in the meanwhile. This doesn’t seem like a major set of hurdles on the surface, but after a few days on the beach living the simple life, I found that the routine I’ve become accustomed to is in fact utter shite. Utter. I’m not a fan of how my life has cycled into this fairly banal routine and threatens to straight up be like that for the foreseeable future.
It is high time to shake things up, but I don’t have the first clue how.
Some Thoughts:
- The Giants trade of JPP highlights a draft strategy that points towards a team that recognizes the need to pick up draft picks and restock the roster at a number of positions. They don’t appear to have any picks in the 2018 draft beyond the 5th round and have concentrated their picks in the first three rounds. This points to a team looking to reap the rewards of a deep draft class. I strongly suspect they may try to trade away the #2 pick in order to stock additional picks. That is to say that I no longer believe they feel the top guys are a lock to be worth a #2. That includes Barkley.
- Speaking of top picks, I haven’t seen a QB come out of USC and be successful in some time. Like Carson Palmer long ago. Barkley, Leinart, the list grows… USC is not producing NFL ready talent.