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blackbootz  ·  3220 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: February 3, 2016

I asked my high school lacrosse coach if he needed any help with coaching this year, and he said he'd love it if I came aboard! So come March, I'll be the strength and conditioning coach for the team, as well as freeing up Coach Merc to work with smaller groups as needed during practice. He's the most gifted, inspiring and tough-loving mentors I've ever met, I can't describe how much I grew up under him. A twenty-five year prison guard and police veteran, nineteen years of which he was riot control specialist. That translated to his zero-tolerance policy of any "Mickey Mouse bullshit."

This is my senior year, I'm the white boy in the front, Coach Merc on the left.

On another note, can you believe that the graduating year for high school freshman is now 2019?





kleinbl00  ·  3220 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Had my hair cut last week by a girl who graduated from a high school I designed.

blackbootz  ·  3220 days ago  ·  link  ·  

LOL. Wow. I bet you feel old. ;)

edit: what do you mean by designing a high school?

kleinbl00  ·  3220 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I was part of the design team. Of the 200-plus sheets of blueprints, I drew about 20 of them. Of the 4000-plus pages of spec binders, I wrote about 100 of them. The sound systems in the gym, auditorium, classrooms, etc as well as the acoustical treatments and layout for all spaces were engineered and chosen by me, as the junior member of a team of two people.

jleopold  ·  3220 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    On another note, can you believe that the graduating year for high school freshman is now 2019.

As a high school senior, yes I sure can. They can be really damn stupid. I mean, my friends can be dumb, I can be dumb sometimes (a lot of times) but these freshman can be straight stupid way to much of the time. And they were born in this century, have smartphones before they graduate middle school, and don't know how to take care of their own damn selves. Or at least, the ones I have to deal with can't.