September 18, 2009
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The Daily News
1 The Class of 2013 approached me to become their advisor. I actually hesitated for a millisecond, and told them I’d give it some thought.
2 Remember the joke about the moron who kept hitting himself over the head with a hammer? When a second moron approached and asked him, “Why do you keep hitting yourself over the head with a hammer?” he replied, “Because it feels so good when I stop!”
3 The Class of 2013. To me that is almost borderline Science Fiction. I think I was cool up to Class of 2009, but once those last two digits become double, it seems that it is coming at us at an alarming rate.
4 I must say, those kids who approached were all Ears and Braces (the book Immina write about all of this is gonna be called Ears and Braces!). It was downright goofy, but cute at the same time.
5 I told them that I was still too close to the Class of ’05 to suddenly launch into the future.
6 Not really true at all, although I will always love my ’05′ers. I’m actually thinking that my days of club advising and doing activities are far behind me.
7 Selfishly I suppose, I’m WAY enjoying my classes, and placing every ounce of energy I have on my classes proper. I have some AWESOME classes this year, so it’s really tough thinking of doing anything but enjoying the lessons.
8 I’ve also been writing songs during my prep period. Up to this year, I’ve written ONE song in my entire life. I’m now working on my fifth!
9 I KNOW I KNOW!!! I should grade papers on my Prep, but rarely can. I prefer taking an entire weekend starting on a Friday afternoon and then bulldozing papers, then doing sets during the week at night.
10 Ah, just talkin’ shop. Sometimes it’s not what people say that talks volumes. Ah, nevuhmind.
11 Still…I must confess I was tempted to advise again.
12 Moving on: Moving on indeed. I was just offered a theater managing job for October 10 but can’t do it because of grading. Too bad, because the second half of last year I got to manage the Theatre up at the Chill, and got PAID!
13 Can you imagine?
14 All those years ushering groups in at YB and NOBODY ever paid me. Pretty stupid, looking back, but my feeling was that I will help other groups for free in exchange for the school respecting that when I would need the Theatre, it would generally allow it. So it was pretty comfortable.
15 I saw that disappearing, and the respect diminishing despite my efforts to help outside groups. THAT was one of the main reasons I jumped ship at YB.
16 So it has been fun getting back into working in a Theatre. Nothing will ever be like it was during the golden ages at YB; it was truly like the Wild West, but also was a sweet place to hang out. I always saw it as an island of sanity in a sea of madness.
17 A while back Nathan wrote on Facebook about missing the Theatre, lighting the set, listening to music. No doubt about that one. ALWAYS was a great “chill”.
18 I’ll never get that up at the Chill, but sometimes it is almost identical when I’m in that Theatre. But I’m still a bit of an outsider, and not a member of the Performing Arts Department, although I get along with them really well. Good peeps.
19 So it’s Frideeee!!!!
20 Think I’ll get to looking to the future, like grading papers and planning more fun lessons. I’m excited to work for the kids I have this year; they’re just amazing.
21 Still love teaching.
22 Anyway, y’all have a great weekend.
23 Peace.
~H~
