I must say, this last week of school was fairly gratifying. I saw both Jordan and Stef pass Taffy without even glancing at her. She's been wandering around like a mopey thing; didn't even glare at me in the teacher's lounge for once. Which was surprising, since I'd assumed she'd figure out I was behind the defection of her boys right away. But if ( Read more... )

Well, well, Jenny came through. Delivered Jordan's protection charm to me after school today. Cheered me up quite a bit, since I'd spent my afternoon planning period with Principal Emerson, who wanted to ask a whole lot more questions about the students acting strangely before The Incident. Honestly, you'd think I was the only teacher who didn't ( Read more... )

What a week. First the fight with Taffy about how I was to blame for what happened to the play cast. Then an inquisition by the school board regarding the "tragic student fight". I'm not sure whether Taffy said something to them, or they just noticed that all the students involved were in the play. Not a word was suggested about magic, however, so ( Read more... )

One good thing about the play being canceled is that I now have plenty of time to bone up on my magical skills. I'm really stuck on exactly why my spell on Jordan didn't work. I've been studying Stefan's protection charm, assuming Jordan's is similar, but I can't get a handle on exactly how it works. Nor can I seem to add any sort of enchantment to ( Read more... )

I can't believe it! Today Principal Emerson told me that the play is canceled. Completely, utterly canceled. I tried to assure him that the production could be salvaged, but he was adamant. Now, I know that some really shocking things have gone on with several of the performers. For instance Sophie--I would never have imagined her depressed enough ( Read more... )

The spell I did on Jordan last weekend seems to have gone off as expected. The stone turned black, and neither he nor that interfering Taffy has said a word to me about anything all week. Monday night I replaced the talisman under the stage--lord knows, I need it more than ever now! With the daunting task in front of me of finding a reasonable ( Read more... )

Oh, no no no! This can't be happening, not after all my hard work! Why can't anything in this town go as planned ( Read more... )

Well, it looks like I was right that there's more going on between Taffy and Stefan than them being just friends. No, they're not sleeping together. Stef's...eagerness made it pretty plain he hadn't had that kind of fun in quite some time. But Taffy has an odd possessive thing about him, and frankly, I don't know where she gets off talking to me ( Read more... )

This week has gone by incredibly quickly. But that's okay, I've been on top of my game, rehearsals are going swimmingly--in fact, my two leads both seem really happy and they have their roles down so well I'm amazed. I've just been bouncing through work every day, in spite of some really strange and dreary weather we've been having. I never ( Read more... )

This is a new sensation. I'm actually...relaxed. Amazing, I thought I'd never feel this way again. It's not that I spent Spring Break this past week doing nothing, but I finally managed to catch up, on everything! I got all my papers graded, planned out the next few weeks' lessons, met with our costume volunteers and got them all working in a ( Read more... )