What. a. week.

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At one point this week, I had one of those rare “there is no more ‘nice’ left in me” moments. It was one of those weeks.

This is pretty much how I felt by the end of the week...
Courtesy of 7th period. This is pretty much how I felt by the end of the week…

Today is… a number of things.

Today is the thirteen years to the day that Magic Johnson announced his retirement from the Lakers due to HIV.1 I still remember that Thursday afternoon like it was yesterday.

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Today is also the official opening of Christopher Nolan’s “Interstellar”.2

And today was finally the end of the second six weeks3 which means that Season 8 is a third of the way through.4 Time keeps flapping its wings faster and faster, indeed.

  1. which the Lakers unbelievably trotted as “a severe case of the flu” for a couple of weeks [↩]
  2. Can’t wait to see that thing in 70mm IMAX! [↩]
  3. which was technically only 5 weeks but felt like fifteen… still not as bad as the 3rd, which is only 4 but will feel like forty. [↩]
  4. Yikes!!! [↩]
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