I went out for the first time in two days today. This cold/flu thing has really got me down ( Read more... )

No Sweeney Todd tonight. 15 minutes late to the preview and they won't let anyone else in. I have a feeling that getting a job will be like that. They don't call it "hunting" without reason ( Read more... )

There's a lot of white stuff out there. I wanted a snow day so badly, and I get one the day AFTER I'm finished student teaching. Honestly, it wouldn't have mattered either way. Figures ( Read more... )

Tomorrow is my last day student teaching. The time went really fast. I'll reminisce in detail a little later, but i almost can't believe it's really finished ( Read more... )

So, the highlight of today was watching my video tape of the improvisation lesson I taught the 6th graders as a part of my final project for my student teaching seminar ( Read more... )

I forget sometimes that I used to live in a different world. I used to do things that weren't related to music, teaching, teaching music, or writing about teaching music. I miss that person that I used to be, but we all need to grow up sometime, right ( Read more... )

There were bunches of posters up in the windows of Ypsilanti businesses this weekend saying, "War is Over". Does anyone know what this is about?

This journal is switching to friends only, for purposes of maintaining a professional boundary between myself and those who may come in contact with this journal after the start of my student teaching. I will not be eliminating anyone already on my friends list, If you'd like to be friended, please comment.

"the worst thing you can do to someone is destroy their belief in something."

~Me

Happy birthday, Grammy.

Beyond the "me, me, me" aspect that journaling lends itself to, my next door neighbor has liver cancer and was put in hospice this week and I'm not sure what to think about it. I feel bad, he's a nice man and he and his wife have lived next to us my whole life. He's only in his early/mid sixties, and it isn't fair ( Read more... )