The Daily News
1 I love my job.
2 As exhausting as this week was, it was just fun and soulful.
3 Occupational hazard.
4 I’m into the three a.m. and Chaplin’s The Circus is flickering back at me.
5 Appropriate.
6 I spent the entire week as a drama teacher once again.
7 I came to one conclusion.
8 I don’t think I would want to go into it again.
9 The workshops were pretty fun this week.
10 I’m pretty sure my students enjoyed the workshops as well. Let’s face it: they beat gerunds and infinitives all to heck.
11 Just to clarify, when one teaches English, one eventually teaches Shakespeare, poetry, and drama.
12 I almost wrote “dreama.”
13 Twice.
14 Had it happened once I’d have ignored it.
15 If it’s in the three a.m. however, one must take these sorts of things somewhat seriously, in a pseudo-Freudian way, quite naturally.
16 AnywayZ…I guess I am sort of a dreama, but a beautiful one. <feel free to groan if you got that one.>
17 Moving Rather Speedily on, Part One: I brought in the VHS of my Godspell and used it to teach nearly everything this week.
18 It drew the students in.
19 I let them get into groups to work on their own skits, but left Godspell playing in the background, all day.
20 Anyone who knows me knows I don’t tend to visit the past too much.
21 Dangerous place.
22 So is the present.
23 The Godspell VHS that I showed was closing night.
24 Those who were there will probably never forget it.
25 That little show became dramatically emotional that night.
26 It holds up well, let me tell you. Amazing show.
27 What’s funny is that when I turned on the television last night, in the three a.m. the first words I heard were “Day by day…”
28 My left eye hadn’t even opened yet.
29 I guess that was just a coincidence.
30 Long live God.
31 Moving on, Part the Second: Sometimes you have to move on. The Chaplin film is still flickering here in the three a.m. The heater just went on. Things are cozy and warm.
32 Chaplin is suddenly Professor Bosco, Magician. He has doves and geese flitting around him at the circus.
33 Enter the girl, Merna Kennedy.
34 Really odd film. Chaplin was going through all sorts of life crises at the time.
35 The film went on to make a ton of money.
36 It is really a strange piece of work.
37 A scene with a lion.
38 Chaplin climbing a pole to escape the lion, and then doing a bit of ballet when Kennedy shows up.
39 Flirtation in the hay. A kitten scares both of them.
40 Despite it’s weirdness, this film suddenly turns sweet. Chaplin’s boss comes up, interrupts the romantic scene, and tells Chaplin to get to work. Chaplin walks a practice tightrope. His shows are on the wrong feet. The guy is amazing.
41 We are reporting this live.
42 It just said The Next Show.
43 I imagine.
44 Moving on, Part the Thoid: Why did the teevee say “day by day” to me?
45 Why is there a Chaplin film playing?
46 I will make meek adjustments and write all of it off as the beginning of my Friday.
47 The past is calling. I wrote that last night. I heard on the radio this morning that it is Roger Daltrey’s birthday today.
48 It’s all pretty scary. Back to the film. Really weird clowns just entered the picture.
49 Fortunately, Chaplin and Kennedy keep everything classy and cool.
50 With that, I feel safe and snug climbing back under the covers.
51 I’m comforted.
52 It has all been some sort of distorted dream.
53 I can live with that.
54 The Act Over.
55 That just flashed on the screen.
56 Thank goodness.
57 I’ll take that as a welcome end to an exhausting, but interesting week.
58 See you again.
59 Peace.
~H~
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