1 Know how you have lousy dress days? Like, you just can't find anything that works?
2 I had wunna those yesterday.
3 I put on some shirt, and then noticed that I some sorta dirt on it's collar.
4 I think it was from mowing the lawn. Hey, dirt settles, right?
5 Then I remembered that I hadn't mowed the lawn.
6 The scary thing is, I thought I just had in the past few days.
7 I actually DID on Monday night, in the dark yet!
8 That's funny that you do something so many times in life that you can't even remember if you had done it recently or not.
9 Or...you just might be going crazy, which begins the end of our madness theme for the week.
10 ANYWAYZZZZZZZZ....
11 Well, I certainly couldn't wear that shirt, that's for sure.
12 So I dug through a whole bunch of other shirts, all of which seemed to big, too small, too loud, too flabby (the SHIRT dammit, not me!).
13 My entire philosophy about fashion these days is that I don't wish to look good, I just want to avoid looking bad. I've stated this on a number of occasions.
14 So when people ask me my fashion "style", I usually reply, "understated".
15 Gets the prissies and the plastics off my back.
16 Allow me to re-focus, bitches.
17 I love how everybody ends sentences with the word, "bitches".
18 It is SO the times. A bit harsh, but it's just staying around, like a bad guest, I imagine. We are losing all hope of class as we plunge into the abyss.
19 AnywayZ, I finally found a shirt that might keep me invisible, and in my enthusiasm, began buttoning it from the first button on the left side, and the third buttonhole on the right.
20 Midway through, I noticed that my left side was getting progressively higher than my right side.
21 So I undid it, and then tried to find the right match at the bottom of my shirt, you know, how you do?
22 It was about then that I noticed that my shirt had a built-in TWO extra buttons hanging out at the bottom of the, like two stoned surfers hanging out on the sands of Maui.
23 I knew instantly what had happened. I'm guessing you know too, since it has happened to, and I KNOW I read this statistic somewhere, 97.65% of most people in developed nations, including the Yemens.
24 Even in my madness to get dressed and pressed and off to school, my frabjous mind STILL goofed on how many people on any given morning button their shirts with a four-inch height advantage to the left side of the shirt.
25 If my knowledge of human nature holds true, I have to guess the statistics to be astromical, given the populations of most developed nations.
26 Notice I don't even figure IN the amount of people this must happen to in undeveloped nations.
27 That would probably put the statistic over the top.
28 Mileage.
29 Moving on, Part the First: I did lights once more for our music concert last night, and as always, EVERYONE delivered under the amazing tutelage of Maestro Steve Barnhill.
30 Our Wind Ensemble absolutely brought a train right through theTheatre. They played this amazing number called Ghost Train.
31 Nearly any song I've ever heard that has a train in it also mimics a train musically. This was the best of the batch, with sound effects coming out of nowhere, and chugging, bells, metal, and horns. What gave it its edge was that it wasn't just a train, it was a ghost train.
32 Astonishing.
33 Moving on, Part the Second: I got home in a state of absolute wonder at what I had just enjoyed, and realized that my work at school is nearly done. I don't have many more lesson plans to do, vocab lists to write, stories to research, etc. I met many students' parents last night, and I'm realizing how much I LOVE my classes this year. My garden is in, most people are healthy, and I think Spring sprung for me at some point last night!
34 AND it's payday to boot.
35 I've never felt like I didn't want the school year to end, but the past three weeks have been an absolute joy for both myself and for my students, beginning with the Cafe Verona, moving through nearly every poem in the book, sweet readings over microphones, skit/presentation planning, and in the past two days, incredible presentations by my students. And next week we begin The Taming of the Shrew, traditionally the Grand Finale to my year.
36 I ran into our former principal Cari Vaeth last night, who told me that our English department has rocked the house for the past three years, often moving mountains. I've certainly seen tremendous growth in my students, especially my mainstream English 2's. The honors sorts always move forward, but it was really nice to see my 2's moving forward so gracefully. They did a puppet show of Twelfth Night that knocked my socks off.
37 We have all been riding a spiritual springtime train, and it's been all smiles at a time when everyone else seems stressed to the max.
38 Ironically, yesterday somewhere around fourth period, I ran out of pencils. I had a huge box at the beginning of they year, and when some kid asked for a pass to the restroom, I couldn't find a pencil to save my soul.
39 And yesterday I had my classes return all their books, including two class sets.
40 I looked up at the empty cabinet yesterday after school and stopped, as when one stops to smell the roses...
41 I thought to myself of the little child's end-of-the-year chant: "No more pencils, no more books..."
42 I've decided to stay away from mirrors...
43 Well, I posted that one on Facebook, but it got lost in items about food, partying, and Ying Yang. It's all good. It amused me, but only slightly.
44 Still, it was a moment.
45 I don't know, it must have been the roses.
46 Have a WONDERFUL Memorial Day Weekend.
47 It's gonna be sunny, so go out and live life, and love life, willya?
48 Peace.
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