September 4, 2006
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The Daily News
CRIKEY!1 So...Steve Irwin walks into a bar...2 Sometimes the DN can just catch you. I actually had this little scoop ready to go to press yesterday. Ah, it has to feel pretty strange. I don't know about you, but I always loved the guy.
3 Thanks Nathan, for that bit of sad news. Well it seems that our beloved Crocodile Hunter lost a nature battle with a stingray. It's just plain sad. There are just some people who you figure time won't touch. Sad stuff, truly.
4 So it goes.
5 Moving on: A little tidbit about when I got the new job: I was floating around in my backyard pool when my cell phone rang. I had just come in from Mars, so my reflexes were a bit on laid-back mode, so I started to get up when I heard the house phone go off. A message began speaking in a weathered voice. "Mr. Harrington...?" it began. Within fifteen short seconds, my entire life turned around.
6 I got showered, dressed, and hopped in the TOONDRA, flying across lanes of traffic and flew low as I drifted up the immortal Quimby road. Right around Ruby, the cross street to EVHS, a car pulled right in front of me, on my very first day officially on the job. My eyes focused instantly on the license plate, looking for mystical signs, as always. I wasn't disappointed. The license read "HIGH T 2". Within seconds, my laid-back mind grew into a big smile on my face, as I listened to what that actually said.
7 Heidi II.
8 You can run but you can't hide.
9 How is Steve Irwin not in a better place? Or rather, how is that place not made better by Steve Irwin? The crocks and alligators are dancing!
10 Anyway, yep! That's what it said all right, right there at Quimby and Ruby.
11 A quimby, by the way, according to Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. is a fellow who farts in the bathtub and chews on the bubbles.
12 I didn't want that one to slip by.13 By and by, I pulled up and began my first insane day as an Activities Director. I knew nothing, but I sure LOOKED as though I knew what I was doing. Well, within a few days I had told everybody, tried to figure creative ways of keeping the Drama Workshop, the ATFNL, AND the Pigeon Players all circulating and moving forward, attempted to figure out how even to begin a job that has no written description, enjoyed visits from everyone I have ever known, all of whom wanted to go get FOOD (I had no idea that success was so fattening!), and somehow managed to meet with kids who were excited and ready to begin, and to meet with kids who were shell-shocked and looking at me with big sad cow eyes.
14 It's a living, that's for sure.
15 In the midst of all this, I somehow managed to meet with students up there and the next thing I knew I found myself handing out freshmen schedules. As I looked around, I saw a fellow who just LOOKED like a drama guy visiting the campus.16 Well, I was right. His name was Scott Seay, and he was the representative of American Musical Theatre San Jose, and he was there schmoozing with our Assistant Principal. Well, I've been wanting to hook up with AMTSJ for some time now, to organize the purchase of tickets for four of their shows, so I just stepped in and introduced myself.
17 Scott smiled and let me know some exciting things about the student series, and it is good news for DN readers as well. AMTSJ now gets ticket deals for EVERYONE. So I'll be trying to get something going not only for Evergreen, but for YB's Drama Workshop, ATFNL. and you, the faithful readers of the DN! I'm on it, I promise you!
18 Meanwhile, I finally got to my district e-mail and opened the following letter from Scott Sea of AMTSJ. He had mailed this the very day we met. I just loved it!
Here ya go!To wit:
Hello, Bud --
It was great meeting you today withAngela. Your name was familiar to me but I could not place it until Igot back to my office. I have been looking at high school websites overthe last week or so, getting the names of drama and music teachers tosend information on our Student Performance Series. I was looking atYerba Buena's site this past Sunday and I ended up getting very littledone on my project because I got caught up reading about Heidi. I foundit absolutely fascinating! And here we are, two days later and I meetyou at a completely different school. One more strange coincidence!
Okay, one more small coincidence: ourProduction Stage Manager's name is Heidi and as I was writing thise-mail she walked by my office to say she would help me with a projectin a couple of minutes. Fascinating!
Scott Seay
Manager of Education and Outreach
American Musical Theatre of San Jose19 Well long time subscribers to the DN, how about THAT one?
20 And the goody is that it looks like we may be able to work a deal for tickets to their upcoming shows.
21 So there you have it!
22 And that's Tuesday's edition of the DN!
23 Oh, and to the great Crocodile Hunter in the sky; we look up and salute you man.
24 Thanks for all the laughs and thrills big guy.
25 We're down here just watching it all unfold, so let someone know that, okay mate?
26 Peace. We'll miss ya, Crocodile Hunter.
27 Thanks for all the fun.
28 Peace.
~H~
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