*notice – i am writing this post at 10:30pm after a VERY long day. it may not make sense at all.* tomorrow will be the last show of this week. today i played 3 shows. 2 on clarinet and alto sax and 1 on bassoon. i am exhausted, but exhilarated at the same time. i [...]
Archive for April, 2010
one more
Posted in Everyday life, Uncategorized on April 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
hell week
Posted in Everyday life on April 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
the other music teachers in the county and i have affectionately dubbed this week hell week. it’s kinda like hollywood week on idol, except there’s no promise of fame and fortune at the end of the road and we can’t send the loosers home. here is just a sampling of the musical events happening in [...]
silly questions
Posted in Happenings at School on April 22, 2010 | 1 Comment »
when a child asks a question with an obvious answer, many people balk at them. so why then, is it ok for administration to ask silly questions and we are supposed to answer them with the utmost respect? take yesterday as an example: i am in the office talking to the secretary about calendar events [...]
gawd i love my sister
Posted in Everyday life on April 20, 2010 | 1 Comment »
all you have to do is read this and you’ll know why.
pieces
Posted in Everyday life on April 16, 2010 | 2 Comments »
i don’t blog about my personal life much. i try to keep my business as my business, but right now, there are just to many pieces for me to keep holding them all together. my huband and i have been married for almost 3 years, together for 8 1/2 years and i’ve known him for [...]
is today friday?
Posted in Happenings at School, kids say on April 12, 2010 | 1 Comment »
we had a full week of spring break. then, i worked two days and was gone 3. last week, we tested all week. today, as my 2nd class was leaving, i had a student ask “is today friday?”. i couldn’t agree more. i am in for one looooong week.
i’m an escort
Posted in Uncategorized on April 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
or at least for this week. my primary function is to escort students from their testing classrooms to the bathroom and back. i really don’t remember ‘listening to students pee’ being in my job description, but this week, that’s my job. standardized testing turns schools upside down. everything we normally do is thrown out the [...]
easter
Posted in Everyday life on April 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
from a funeral thursday, to a celebration today. my older sister, b, and i have barely talked for years. there is a lot of not so wonderful history. last week, she invited my mother to come to her house for easter. mom and i drove to my house yesterday and then on to b’s house [...]
