“Pride comes before a fall” (Proverbs 29:23), and I just completed my “assessment.” In one class, only 48% passed: they are just not studying and not learning the material well enough to select right choices on tests. Some of it is a language issue, they have 5 classes, but many times, they just don’t study outside of class, & do the homework while watching TV and chatting on Facebook.
So teaching in L.A. keeps me humble, and my heart gets raked over the coals all the time!

But these men who are paid millions need assistants to correct their directional dyslexia. Jim is left-handed, and in Atlanta, the Atlantic is “on the right”: if their studio faces South, then his map would be looking South; but still, on national TV, wouldn’t you think someone would be there to catch the jetstream labeled opposite?

Yesterday there was an article how NBC and Tom Brokaw were criticizing Mitt Romney for using their footage to criticize Newt G., saying it “jeopardized their journalistic integrity,” but what about calling West winds in L.A., “East winds”/”offshore winds”/”offshore flow,” and none of them ever noticing or caring for at least 30 years!

In Burbank, O.D.D. (Offshore Dyslexic Dysfunction) has been a contagious disease too long, and they’re far too gone.

Tina Fey told David Letterman she wasn’t sure if NBC would “be” anymore, and it’s a consequence of all these opposite, maladaptive decisions, of which “restraining orders” on the truth are just backfiring:

Did he think he could keep it quiet that winds in L.A. blow from the West on sunny days?

When Ben Silverman resigned, and anchors Paul Moyer and Furnell Chatman went on vacation and didn’t come back (not together), I knew trouble was brewing in house, and felt vindicated when CEO Jeff Zucker was sacked by Comcast (even though he’d been promised to stay on).

Now that The Weather Channel is in the NBC conglomerate, who’s next to fall, “Death by Dyslexia”?

Hope it’s not you, Jim: the TV audience needs “geography,” but West is on the LEFT if North is at the top.

Have someone help you if it’s difficult to grasp, and keep drinking water to electrify the synapses. Caffeine takes water out.

“Love to you and yours,”
“The Teacher”

If you don’t want to play yourself in “Offshore Winds, The Musical,” we can ask Vin Diesel to do it: I liked him in “The Pacifier.” I have songs for the others, but haven’t written one for you yet; but it will have something to do with dancing with the wind.

“Upside down and backwards” is how a lot of people see maps and spatial relationships, and some have this social dimension, too.

The Weather Channel’s “Local on the 8′s” Torrance prediction for today (from National Weather Service) is NE 10-20 with a Wind Advisory of Gusts to 50 mph: it’s “CALM” right now, so I’m anticipating the (West) sea breezes to start any minute:
http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/mesowest/getobext.php?wfo=lox&sid=KLAX&num=72, http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/mesowest/getobext.php?wfo=lox&sid=KTOA&num=72

My memory of rather gray June is that winds are not as strong as other months. On the lower right chart, which months get the strongest winds along L.A.’s coastline?
The top 2 charts show little arrows of wind DIRECTIONS, and the lower left, wind speeds.

January is also just a beautiful time to go, if you can wake up early enough (EST), because of oblique light.  The lake and pavilions were just so beautiful!

Disney Animal Kingdom is also beautiful and tropical, like a huge botanical garden and zoo, pretend Africa and Asia.

I loved Florida, and the pine trees made me want to cry because of the way I had to leave Minnesota to come to California; it’s like an ache in my soul. Mountains make me want to cry because of their majesty and familiarity: they touch on memories in my soul that weren’t quite satisfied.

When my son was younger, I drove to the Tetons via Yosemite and Craters of the Moon, and I like driving, but long distances are tiring. The Tetons and eastern side of the Sierras are similar, and sometimes when I go to Eaton Canyon early before a field trip, the majesty of the fault block makes a steeper panorama, and it stirs up the same feeling of longing.

I love being home! My cats have purred for hours so far.

I’m getting ready to post online all the West wind records I saved for L.A. and O.C. stations when “offshore flow” was predicted. Let the public and weather world know I was never “guilty” at all: I just liked NBC! They weren’t worthy. I explained it repeatedly to top NOAA officials, and they said, “Mark Jackson should know that!” (National Weather Service Oxnard/Los Angeles Meteorologist-in-Charge). They expressed grief about it, and one guy from The Weather Channel expressed heartfelt appreciation, and said my correspondence “stimulated a lot of discussion.” (I just think people deserve the truth, and “Offshore Winds, The Musical” is like a big soap opera about which ways are East and West, because they won’t listen to “a girl.”)

If I hear of hurricanes approaching (and only in 2011 did I start paying closer attention), my role is to keep praying “against” landfall, and pray for more mild rain to replenish groundwater supplies. When Hurricane Don was approaching the Texas coast, I prayed “against” it (sorry, Jim), but I asked for rain persistently for Texas for at least 2 years, and last year went 4x to visit family. My sister lives dangerously close to the Bastrop fire, and most certainly, I prayed “against” the spread of it in her direction, for the winds and for firefighters to have relief.

When So. Cal. weathercasters predict “offshore flow,” I “tell” the West winds to “Come in,” and they always do; but that’s because I’ve observed them several 1000x, so they will no matter what I pray.

Something I’ve also written about in the past is “Why don’t TV field news reporters wear hats?” They’re always frowning with squinting eyes because of the sun, and it would model sun protection and keep them from aging so fast. Ozone depletion and cancers are real; “tan” is out.