Or the hundreds of times kids would come back into my room just to talk, to clean my chalkboards, to alphabetize my classroom library, to help me clean up, to sell candy bars for the SGA, to make up work.
As my colleague Chalkboard Bobby Smyth pointed out in ">this informative article, their progress in this tournament will almost certainly determined by strikers Diego Forlan and Luis Suaraz, who have scored 70-odd goals between them this season.
She wrote about the world on my carry-around chalkboard.... Hand-talk, face-talk and chalk-talk were the languages I grew up with, soundless and strong".
In the lobby were two big chalkboards with "MY DREAM IS …" written at the top, and a dozen blanks for people to fill in.
"My Keds were a chalkboard," she said.
"I had to sit in silence for nine days, chalkboard around my neck.
("The guys loved music as much as I do, but I have to say their Indian music was like fingernails on a chalkboard to my ears," he says. "And they didn't care much for country music. So we took turns").
He was "quietly fired" from the New Orleans Times-Picayune, he says, "for a bad attitude and failing to note my whereabouts on a newsroom chalkboard, which I found insulting.
I was sitting at my desk one day, after the bell had rung, staring at a clouded chalkboard, leaning back in my chair, its beige foam crawling out from beneath red cloth.
