February 17, 2005
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The Daily News
1 Well, congratulations to the YB Mens' Soccer team for their victory yesterday over St. Ignatius. I went out there yesterday and thoroughly enjoyed the game.
2 Auditions for the Spring Musical will continue today. Yesterday was pretty disappointing, but we'll just have to see. It's tough when we are trying to get something going when the lights are out, and the Theatre is unavailable, but that's the way the ball bounces.
3 Okay, alumni, time for me to make YOU feel young! Yesterday, a student from my very FIRST year at YB, Corrine Habib, showed up with her SON, and said hello! That was...a LONG time ago! Haha! But I recognized her immediately, and said hello, remembering not only her name, but a lot of great memories from my rookie season at YB, which was actually like a veteran season, because I had already directed four high school plays by the time I had hit YB, so I had already understood a WHOLE lot about education even then.
4 Funny, the only other teachers she remembered who made a HUGE difference were myself, Foehr, and Worden. Made me feel OLD though, but she reassured me that I was a good guy. The years go by, I tellya, but it was really cool.
5 She was a Senior that year, and I remember her telling me about this fellow she went around with. In late Septemeber, she learned that he had been killed in a car accident. I well rembember giving her my copy of Our Town at the time, telling her that it was very spiritual, and dealt well with the loss of a dear friend, or relative.
6 She still has that book, to this day! She also remembers the FIRST Godspell we did at YB, when I was the musical director. In fact, the FIRST extra-curricular thing I DID at YB was to form a rock band to play Godspell in my first year. Another teacher directed it, and I was the MUSIC guy, and worked both band AND vocals. I also did the music and voices the following year for Guys and Dolls. I almost forgot about all of that, except that I LOVED the bands! I gained a HUGE appreciation for band directors and choir teachers, because THAT is a chore!! I also loved that my first gig at YB was to be a teacher of rock 'n' roll.
7 Stands to reason.
8 Okay, so auditions continue today, after school, in room P-61. I'm offering, so if it happens, it happens. If not, it's been a fun ride. Life moves on.
9 Yeah, yesterday was quite the thing; both MY classroom, my building, AND the Performing Arts building was pretty much blacked out all day, one of the weirder days of the year. To make matters MORE bizarre, we had Code Red during Drama Class, and my class totally passed with flying colors, but it was WEIRD. Following that, we had a Senior Class meeting, in which the first theme was taken back, and a new one adopted, which is always a risk. But the majority of people seemed okay with it, so I let it go.
10 Then, during 5th period, my lesson seemed to fall short by about ten minutes, and THEN the fire alarm kept going off. Because the electricity was out, I had to jump in the TOONDRA during 6th, buy a bunch of batteries for the NEW boom box I bought for the musical, and then found that almost nobody came to audition, which, as I said, was cool, because I got to go out and enjoy the soccer game.
11 When I got back, Senior Class FANTASTICS practice was sort of going on in my room, although it was pretty informal. Some came, some went, but a core group remained until dark, and I mean LITERALLY dark, because the electricity STILL hadn't gone on as of 8 p.m. last night!
12 Well, it was a long day; I got home, ate a cup of rice, and sat down to write this. So here ya are! The end of a weird, bizarre day.
13 I'm drifting off, so I'd better just say saynoara.
14 Have a rainy day.
15 Peace.
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