{"id":573883230,"date":"2012-05-09T23:05:18","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T04:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573883230"},"modified":"2012-05-15T16:40:32","modified_gmt":"2012-05-15T21:40:32","slug":"the-last-day-of-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2012\/05\/09\/the-last-day-of-class\/","title":{"rendered":"The last day of class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can get a omelet at a lot of places across this great late and, truly, across this beautiful marble floating in the sky. Many of them will be good, too. But sometimes you run across a chef who&#8217;s making them to the music in his head. And it is almost art, this spreading of chopped things and the mixing in of egg and cheese and seasonings.<\/p>\n<p>Our guy at the Caf at Samford, he&#8217;s a friendly guy, big laughs, big smiles, carries on running conversations with a lot of the people that he sees every day. And he&#8217;s something of an artist, maybe.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/blip.tv\/play\/htNMgveZeQA.html?p=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/a.blip.tv\/api.swf#htNMgveZeQA\" style=\"display:none\"><\/embed>Or maybe it is just a fine omelet full of fresh tomatoes. Either way.<\/p>\n<p>The last class of the semester. We got in our last presentations. We discussed the final paper. They brought me cookies. I thanked them for their patience in the class. I told them I hoped they learned as much as I did and, I said, &#8220;This is my favorite part of the semester. Have a safe and happy summer. I look forward to seeing you in the fall.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>One of the students stood up and cynically said &#8220;That sounds like a prepared speech.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I was so proud.<\/p>\n<p>In my office I cleaned things up and did the last few remaining chores of the day. This stretched out longer than it had to, but this day always does. I lingered to listen to Van Morrison:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"640\" height=\"360\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/oa6sM3SICAY?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/oa6sM3SICAY?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"640\" height=\"360\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/EhRpgHx8w8Y?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/EhRpgHx8w8Y?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Why it is Van Morrison I am not sure. On the last day of my first semester at Samford I was parking the car when some really obscure tune of his was playing on whatever random satellite channel I was listening to at the time. It seemed appropriate for the day and I have a weakness for appropriate, yet pointless traditions.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday omelets seem like a good tradition &#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can get a omelet at a lot of places across this great late and, truly, across this beautiful marble floating in the sky. Many of them will be good, too. But sometimes you run across a chef who&#8217;s making them to the music in his head. 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