Last Wednesday:
I TOTALLY KICKED ASS AS A THEATRE TEACHER.

I noted student apathy when I visited the Center on Tuesday.  I revised my lesson plans accordingly.  I got everyone up and involved from the start.  I kept everyone involved throughout the entire lesson.  I tapped into everyone's enthusiasm and unleashed everyone's latent creativity.  IT. ( Read more... )

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Dudes.

I have been tearing it up in the kitchen.

1. Scrambled tofu and mushrooms, for those of you who don't eat eggs but occasionally want scrambled eggs (are there any of you, or am I the only one?).  Take some firm tofu.  Chop it up into little bitty pieces, so that it looks like scrambled eggs.  Stick it in an oiled saucepan and shower spices on ( Read more... )

I have added another British comedian to my collection of comic heroes: John Sessions.

I discovered him while watching the first season of the UK's "Whose Line Is It, Anyway?"  I was watching the third episode, which features Stephen Fry and Peter Cook, and I found myself distracted by the little curly-haired man in this sketch.  John Sessions and ( Read more... )

Two weeks ago I took my car to the dealership because there was a clanking noise (like a grandfather clock ticking, or a gear clicking out of sync).  They listened and attributed the sound to an out of sync lifter, and I thought they would fix it and I would have my car back within a week.

Nope.  First they clean it of carbon.  Okay.  Then they ( Read more... )

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Earlier this evening I was visiting my parents when their two dogs raced to the window and started barking their heads off.  Then my mom rushed through, explaining "There's a dog loose!" as she breezed out the door and tried to see if the dog was our neighbors'.  I grabbed a few dog treats and followed.  By the time I made it outside with the dog ( Read more... )

Today was so much better than I expected.

I didn't feel like exerting actual effort while teaching elementary music, so I decided to teach the kids "My Country, 'Tis of Thee."  A few weeks ago the principal discovered that the kids are appallingly ignorant of the standard patriotic repertoire and asked the real music teacher to correct that.  I ( Read more... )

I have a lovely Labor Day weekend.

It didn't begin particularly well.  I had to spend a couple hours at a miniature golf course on Saturday afternoon because the scheduled volunteer didn't show up, and neither of the co-managers (one of whom is my dad) was in town, so I had to go.  I had been managing my allergies extremely well, but two hours ( Read more... )

1. My subconscious seems to be squicked out by Neil Gaiman dating Amanda Palmer, if my dreams are any indication.  I shouldn't be squicked out, since most of my crushes are on guys Neil Gaiman's age, but for some reason it appears to be.  Maybe I'm just jealous that she is dating a mild-mannered, frizzle-haired Englishman and I am not?

2. I lack the ( Read more... )