Those of you who were lucky enough to have Mr. Maurice Loontjens for 6th grade at Woodridge Elementary in Cranston… Mr. Loo has passed on to that great Principal’s Office in the Sky. ProJo tells it: Town manager dies in his sleep.
Whether he was dumping your desk out on the floor because it was dirty, or leading your class in a riveting game of kickball, Mr. Loo was one hell of a teacher. His fondness for Buddha was known from Friendly’s to Santilli’s.
I remember for punishment me and some of my cohorts went outside with Mr. Loo and he had us measure all the crack’s in the playground’s blacktop, saying the school needed to figure out exactly how much blacktop to buy to fill in the cracks. In demonstrating physical vs chemical changes he smashed a Woodridge Wizards mug and burned a piece of paper in class! 6th graders, smashing mugs, burning paper, the lesson stuck.
Here’s to you Mr. Loo! School’s out for summer, school’s out forever.
Archive for the 'Damnit' Category
It all started last Thursday or so. After a few days of my elbow hurting me, it was just starting to get better. Then it was my knee that started aching. Intersting, I thought. By Saturday night, it was very painful to move on it. By Sunday morning, I was limping like I should be ringing a bell at Notre Dame. Off to the Garden City Treatment center. They X-Rayed it, took some blood work, including a Lyme test, and sent me on my way, with the same prescription for anti-inflamatories they had me on for my elbow. I stayed out of work the entire week, aching, limping, pills doing seemlingly nothing. I cranked it up a notch and went to my “real” Doctor on Wednesday. He sent me to a specialist, took some more blood and even some fluid from my knee. Pleasant.
A day later, I have Gout. Pseudogout, actually. ( Not “sudo gout” like I initially thought, any *nix geeks reading? ). Wiki Article. When I asked the Dr how I might get this, he said “You wake up.” I take that to mean, there was nothing I couldve done to avoid such a fate. I am still layed up, and probably will be for the weekend, again. Drop by the house if you are going to be in the greater Narragansett Area.
