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How might I punctuate the following sentence? Students, stop cutting in line(?)stop throwing food(?)and stop leaving trash.
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Day Twenty-Two
Posted: 10/07/09
If yesterday was Locker Day, today was Tile Day.

Finally met Tim, who is installing our ceramic tile and hardwood flooring. I was paranoid about these installations because we had a horrible, terrible, incompetent, uncaring person install the tile in our current bathrooms a few years back. The only good that came of it was that I learned what I didn’t want.

I suspect Tim felt challenged, but I tried to explain that it wasn’t about him. Really, it wasn’t. It was about my former tile man. Who wasn’t as cute as Tim either. I know, that’s irrelevant; but it didn’t go unnoticed.

So I met Tim in the morning to make sure he’d brought the correct tiles and grout. Then I went back in the afternoon to see the progress. While everything was only in the beginning stages, I could tell that this man knew how to tile. The tiles themselves were laid out as I’d wished, the correct spacing between each. The diagonal design I’d requested was truly diagonal. I was thrilled. And he was still cute.


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