for the love of money

friday night. partying as usual, which means not at all. not for lack of opportunity but by choice. offered the chance to work the auditorium tonight and since i can't say no to easy money, here i sit. they should end around 9:15, which, if all goes well, means i should be home in time to catch the late showing of BSG. will try to watch it here, but tough with oliver! in the background. plus, i need to tape it to share.

so...i have another date tomorrow with susie. she's in town again for a wedding. of course, we haven't actually spoken, just exchanged emails and messages. but the plan is to do lunch somewhere asian - either lemon grass or the blue gibbon. will decide when i talk to her tomorrow morning. no safety net this time, just the two of us. i'm trying not to think about it, lest i psyche myself out. it's only lunch, after all.

the problem with working for easy money is little projects fall through the cracks - getting karla cleaned and ready to for her move to the havens, sending songs for the 25th anniversary tear down "tape," keeping in touch with friends. oh yeah, and grading, which is always my excuse for taking the job (besides the money). did get a batch done, but i need to get the OGT practice test finished so we can go over them next week. *sigh* it never ends. should have been a PE teacher.

i'm going to have to watch BSG again. too many distractions here.

so i discovered something today - there is no room C211 at mason high school. for our staff training time (primetime), we're meeting in PLC (professional learning cohorts) to look at specific issues. a good idea, if you can find a topic you're interested in. which i've had little success doing. initially i was signed up for the large school climate group, but it wasn't a good fit. then i was going to work with andy and colin on school financing, mostly because it was andy and colin. but now that andy's gone, the thought of looking at financial stuff makes my brain want to crawl from my ears. not a pleasant thought. so today i decided to join up with the gender group. at least i tried to. on the list of groups, they were marked to meet in C211. so when we split into groups i went there. it doesn't exist. i walked around the hallway for a while, convinced i was just missing it. it's a design thing - instead of a classroom, it's two computer labs - C209 and C210. lovely. so then i went to page one of the people in the group, to find out where they were. i was told they couldn't do that during primetime. then on my way back to my room, i stopped into the scheduling office and kim took things into her own hand and paged them. so i made it to the meeting, just in time to wrap things up. group looks like it should be interesting.

ok, oliver's over. time to start encouraging the group to leave.
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Tunes: elvis costello - episode of blonde