{"id":6238,"date":"2011-01-31T03:07:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-31T03:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=6238"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:36:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:36:26","slug":"day-80-chia-pet-and-clay-buffalo-skull-give","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=6238","title":{"rendered":"Day 80 – Chia Pet and Clay Buffalo Skull (Give)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I had several of the students over last night to watch a movie.\u00a0 I am directing a production of “12 Angry Jurors” this spring.\u00a0 We’ve started practices and they are supposed to have Act I memorized by this coming Wednesday.\u00a0 If you aren’t familiar with the play, it is based on a 1957 movie, “12 Angry Men”, starring Henry Fonda.\u00a0 I have to tell you, my cast is quite the mix of …\u00a0remarkable individuals.\u00a0 They are something else.\u00a0 I learned so much last night – mostly things I didn’t want to know!\u00a0 From day to day, I manage to keep my ears\u00a099% free of\u00a0all the faculty and student gossip that flies around a school building on a regular basis.\u00a0 So after the teens left the house (most of them had spent more time texting than watching the movie), I was tempted to do a Sargeant Shultz as I closed the door\u00a0and declare, “I know nothing. NOTHING!”\u00a0 (That’s a Hogan’s Heroes allusion, in case you missed it.) Anyway, before they all showed up, I ran out to the storage shed and pulled in another box because I figured I could find something quickly to Give.\u00a0 I found a Chia head and a buffalo skull I had made out of clay in high school.\u00a0 Alex got the Chia and David took the skull.\u00a0 David cracked me up – he wanted to make sure I was really willing to part with that thing!\u00a0 “Are you sure you don’t want to take this with you to Haiti?” Yeah, pretty darn sure. Here they are:<\/p>\n\n\n

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