Lunch with Grandpa

I wrote an entry about going to lunch with my g-pa a few weeks ago, but didn't realize that it never got posted, so now it is posted and it is pretty funny, so you must go back to 2-28 and read it. enjoy!

Old Lady

So I am pretty much feeling like a total old lady. I have been training for this triathlon and this week I decided to hit it pretty hard. I even started doing lunges and squats again (although I don't know what I was thinking).

Anyway, the last two days I have had the hardest time just getting out of bed, not because I'm that tired, I just can't physically will my legs to touch the ground because my legs hurt too bad. But, even worse than getting out of bed, going to the bathroom- whoever decided to make toilets so low to the ground must have been a man. anyway, I just kinda bend my legs and drop then hope for the best.

I told Sheldon that if I am this bad now, imagine how bad it will be when I am 80!

I am getting faster at all my race events though, so I guess it must be worth it. Although I have actually gained weight- it's really quite terrible!

Inspired

So, Kerry has inspired me to quit one of my jobs too. Well, actually it was due to the fact that the person in charge told some of my students that I didn't like people and that they must never teach like that. So, in a round-about way, it was Kerry :)

anyway, I told that lame band director that I would finish this year out for his students and then I would be "moving on." That was polite way of saying "you're an a@#!"

I found two other high schools that I am going to work for next year and then I still have my little elementary school band students, so I am definitely not going to be bored- although I wish I could be bored for a little while. I guess that is why they give teachers the summers off too. If we had to teach all year, we'd probably kill all the kids and then there would only be kindergarten teachers, because the end of that year would be the end of them- maybe I'd off some of them in the middle of the year....hmmm......

Surely you know I am just kidding. I really like my job and working with kids is definitely WAY better than working with adults. They just act like wierdos sometimes, you know?

Why do they do this to me?

So Saturday was solo and ensemble festival- a thing where you prepare a solo and then go play it for a person who judges your performance and then gives you a score. Well, I had many of my students working on solos and felt that they were mostly prepared and should do ok on Saturday.

Well, for the first time, I went to hear all of them perform their solos. And the judge was this guy who holds the same degree as me and basically we are the good teachers in town. He happens to be the sax professor at the university here. So here it comes...

They all played like CRAP!!!! Some of them were so bad I just wanted it to stop! So obviously since I am sitting there listening to them, he knows I am their teacher and I'm sure he must think I am a terrible teacher now. It was SOOO embarassing and now I am just mortified to play a gig with the guy again.

Now, maybe they have been going to auditions and performances all this time and sucking, but this is the first time I have actually had to listen to them play so badly for so long. It was awful!!! Mental note to self- do not let them play solos again- EVER! :)