What are you doing the rest of your life ( Read more... )

Last October, Ellizar and I were taking a walk in a lovely neighborhood in Columbus, Ohio. I tripped on a raised piece of concrete and skinned my knee. The fall also produced a slight wear mark in the jeans I was wearing. Today I looked down and that wear mark has turned into a hole. Damn, I really liked those jeans.

My secondary provisional (teaching) certificate came in the mail this week! I am now an official teacher in the eyes of the state of Michigan ( Read more... )

Body, wake up ( Read more... )

I will be moving to Holland this coming weekend instead of next weekend. The loss of a week to pack should get me in gear to start this new life of mine ( Read more... )

I got the orchestra job in Holland!! I will be teaching 6th-12th grade strings and two choirs at Black River Public School, a gorgeous public charter school in Holland, MI. The position is filling a maternity leave, so it's not permanent, but it's mine from March-May and possibly until the end of the year ( Read more... )

The future feels like a double-edged sword. The days when I feel most focused about my career inexplicably lend themselves to the claustrophobic feeling that one day I will find myself trapped in a room without windows or a door. It reminds me of an old Twilight Zone episode I saw where these poor people found themselves in a box with no way out--- ( Read more... )

A traveler in the desert ( Read more... )

That's the next step in my development as an adult. Learn to give the impression of discretion. It's catchy and rhymes, so turning it into a mantra shouldn't be hard ( Read more... )

I have a teaching portfolio. Honest to god. It's about 100 pages thick so far full of lesson plans I've done while student teaching or in college.

Don't know where I'll end up, but I want to look good while I'm doing it.

New Year's Resolution: get a strings job.