in honor of tonight. hope everyone remembered....
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Daylight Loser
by: Jake Speed
I had plans to win the war,
cure cancer work in the Peace Corps
clean up the river get cats outta trees
help an old lady cross the street
I was gonna donate a lot of cash
try to make it all the way through an episode of MASH
Help Pete Rose get reinstated
But I’m an hour late ‘cause of Daylight Savings
Ben Franklin screwed me over again
Bifocals, I can see it
But Daylight Savings, bad idea
Ben Franklin screwed me over again
Just think of all that could’ve been
Ben Franklin screwed me over again
My To Do list said “write a novel”
Run for Mayor, win America’s Next Top Model
I had it all planned from 7 to 8
‘cause of Daylight Savings, I woke up late
run a marathon, go parachuting
cry on a Barbara Walters interview and
be in a movie with Kevin Bacon
I got denied by Daylight Savings
Ben Franklin screwed me over again
A penny saved is a penny earned
An hour lost, Ben, you’re a jerk
Ben Franklin screwed me over again
I could’ve been the next John Glenn
Ben Franklin screwed me over again
Never got a chance to be a doper
Then clean up and go on Oprah
Daylight Savings totally blew it
Would’ve been a great VH1 Behind the Music
I could’ve been the next Bob Dylan
Or Bob Dylan could’ve been the next me
I’m not even quite sure what that means
I’m writing this song on an hour less sleep
Ben Franklin screwed me over again
He gave us Electricity
Now give us back the hour, please
Ben Franklin screwed me over again
didn’t get time to give this song an end
Ben Franklin screwed me…
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Now playing: Jake Speed - Ben Franklin Screwed Me Over Again
via FoxyTunes
Saturday, March 08, 2008
this is why i don't plan ahead
my friday and saturday were packed - friday night movies with the guys, saturday morning meeting for national boards, saturday lunch doing the art walk, saturday night watching MST3K shorts. an excellent time by any standards. and now, because of the weather, only the MST3K remains and i'm still expecting a phone call any time now telling me it has been canceled as well. this is what i get for making plans.
the good news is it's given me lots of time to get stuff done around the house that has gone wanting lately - laundry, for instance. i also cleaned out my closets and dressers for clothes to donate to the salvation army tomorrow. couple bags worth of clothes, one bag of things that needed to be trashed. also finished off laughing gas by wodehouse. fun tale and clever. i also began slam by hornsby. enjoying it immensely. i think several of my students would enjoy reading it. in fact, i'm borrowing it from one of my students. should be a quick read. and after nearly three months, i finally took down my christmas tree. seemed a good time to do it with the blizzard-like conditions outside.
so quite a productive morning. now i have to decide how to spend the rest of my day until MST3K, if it happens. and figure out what i'm going to bring to said gathering. here's hoping the snow lets up enough so i can get out of my garage (which has been giving me fits. if anyone knows how to fix a door opener...). i might do some more work on my music collection - i have finally transferred all my mp3s from my computer to my portable hard drive and then onto my ipod. now i need to go through my cd collection and begin adding those cds i haven't ripped yet. feels a little obsessive (a little thurman?) but there is some satisfaction in having everything ordered and organized.
i'm enjoying the snow immensely. it's deep enough to have covered everything and it's currently drifting down in a magical way, stealing my attention and reminding me of my childhood. usually by this time i would be disappointed with snow like this - being a season guy, in my head it's time for spring, not the last blast of winter. but i shouldn't be surprised - snow like this comes often in march and even april. and it's quite peaceful, something i've been needing after the chaos of the last couple of weeks.
monday starts the OGT, which means a bizarre week. i'm hoping to use my time proctoring the test to get my desk in order (it's bad even for me right now) and make sure everything is planned out for the trimester. also need to figure out when to slowly back out so christina can take over. probably the best bet is to let her do her own thing once we start into the wild. we'll see what we come up with.
time to get clothes out of the dryer and put another load in. might come back if i can't think of anything else to do...
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Now playing: The National - Slow Show
via FoxyTunes
the good news is it's given me lots of time to get stuff done around the house that has gone wanting lately - laundry, for instance. i also cleaned out my closets and dressers for clothes to donate to the salvation army tomorrow. couple bags worth of clothes, one bag of things that needed to be trashed. also finished off laughing gas by wodehouse. fun tale and clever. i also began slam by hornsby. enjoying it immensely. i think several of my students would enjoy reading it. in fact, i'm borrowing it from one of my students. should be a quick read. and after nearly three months, i finally took down my christmas tree. seemed a good time to do it with the blizzard-like conditions outside.
so quite a productive morning. now i have to decide how to spend the rest of my day until MST3K, if it happens. and figure out what i'm going to bring to said gathering. here's hoping the snow lets up enough so i can get out of my garage (which has been giving me fits. if anyone knows how to fix a door opener...). i might do some more work on my music collection - i have finally transferred all my mp3s from my computer to my portable hard drive and then onto my ipod. now i need to go through my cd collection and begin adding those cds i haven't ripped yet. feels a little obsessive (a little thurman?) but there is some satisfaction in having everything ordered and organized.
i'm enjoying the snow immensely. it's deep enough to have covered everything and it's currently drifting down in a magical way, stealing my attention and reminding me of my childhood. usually by this time i would be disappointed with snow like this - being a season guy, in my head it's time for spring, not the last blast of winter. but i shouldn't be surprised - snow like this comes often in march and even april. and it's quite peaceful, something i've been needing after the chaos of the last couple of weeks.
monday starts the OGT, which means a bizarre week. i'm hoping to use my time proctoring the test to get my desk in order (it's bad even for me right now) and make sure everything is planned out for the trimester. also need to figure out when to slowly back out so christina can take over. probably the best bet is to let her do her own thing once we start into the wild. we'll see what we come up with.
time to get clothes out of the dryer and put another load in. might come back if i can't think of anything else to do...
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Now playing: The National - Slow Show
via FoxyTunes
Friday, March 07, 2008
the white death
i know. i didn't post last night. so i'll try to make up for it by posting twice today. or something.
well, the white death is upon us again. we're getting out after lunch (around 1 PM), just in time to hit all the traffic and crawl through bad cincy drivers for an hour or two. joy. plus, the man movie night has been canceled. for a second time. yesterday they canceled it because of the threat of weather until kurt and i called them nancies and suggested maybe we should watch films like beaches or terms of endearment or a walk to remember or the notebook. so they said we would play it by ear. and since the white death is now upon us, they have canceled it again. so i guess i'll have to find something else to occupy my time tonight.
i broke down and talked to dennis wednesday night about "be our guest." turns out we're waiting to hear if we'll have the costumes we want before assigning roles. but if all goes well, i will be....
a corkscrew.
(insert your own joke here)
i cannot wait to see what that costume looks like. and am wondering what it will be like to dance in it. couldn't find anything with a quick google search. we'll see.
i feel like my lent has been be lacking. i surely haven't put enough time into the positive side of lent (other than the writing almost every day). i haven't been seeking to follow isaiah 58 as i should. i'm not going to beat myself over it - enough guilt already in my life - but with only a couple weeks left in this time, i'm feeling perhaps i didn't listen enough to God before starting this journey. or maybe it's become merely a ritual. hard to battle against that i suppose but still disheartening.
bell rang. time for not eating lunch. two more hours to go and it keeps getting worse outside. my prediction: i won't get home until after 4:00 today. fearful bunch of nancy drivers.
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now playing: Old 97's - Victoria
well, the white death is upon us again. we're getting out after lunch (around 1 PM), just in time to hit all the traffic and crawl through bad cincy drivers for an hour or two. joy. plus, the man movie night has been canceled. for a second time. yesterday they canceled it because of the threat of weather until kurt and i called them nancies and suggested maybe we should watch films like beaches or terms of endearment or a walk to remember or the notebook. so they said we would play it by ear. and since the white death is now upon us, they have canceled it again. so i guess i'll have to find something else to occupy my time tonight.
i broke down and talked to dennis wednesday night about "be our guest." turns out we're waiting to hear if we'll have the costumes we want before assigning roles. but if all goes well, i will be....
a corkscrew.
(insert your own joke here)
i cannot wait to see what that costume looks like. and am wondering what it will be like to dance in it. couldn't find anything with a quick google search. we'll see.
i feel like my lent has been be lacking. i surely haven't put enough time into the positive side of lent (other than the writing almost every day). i haven't been seeking to follow isaiah 58 as i should. i'm not going to beat myself over it - enough guilt already in my life - but with only a couple weeks left in this time, i'm feeling perhaps i didn't listen enough to God before starting this journey. or maybe it's become merely a ritual. hard to battle against that i suppose but still disheartening.
bell rang. time for not eating lunch. two more hours to go and it keeps getting worse outside. my prediction: i won't get home until after 4:00 today. fearful bunch of nancy drivers.
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now playing: Old 97's - Victoria
Wednesday, March 05, 2008
6:39 AM
this is what time i woke up this morning. i realized i cannot hear my alarm ring when it is in my coat pocket in another room.
*sigh*
walked into my classroom at 7:15, just as the bell rang for first bell. not bad considering it's usually a 20-25 minute drive with no traffic. i'll let you do the math. at least i woke up in time to make it, though.
and then i find out that ohio once again royally screws everything during an election. they have now given hillary every reason to continue to tear the democratic party apart with her negative campaigning and grandstanding. more power to her. even though she still trails in delegate count, she now feels the vote in ohio shows that everyone in the country wants her to be president. so like some demonic groundhog, ohio has said there will be three more long months of distortions and attacks from both sides so by the time the general election comes, all mccain will have to do is point to the negativity of the past six months and say, "see, i'm better than that." and so the democrats will snatch defeat from the jaws of victory once again.
my take: if hillary gets the nomination, i will "throw away" my vote and give it to nader. because really, both mccain and clinton will do little to fix what's wrong with our political system. not that i'm convinced obama could do any better, but at least he's pointed in that direction. the other two are the same old same old. of course, that might change if she takes obama as her vice president, but her campaign has left such a horrible taste in my mouth, it will be hard to vote for her. and no, it's not because i'm sexist, thankyouverymuch. it's not because she's female - it's because she's what i hate about politics.
you would think since i hate politics so much i would not talk about them, especially since most of the time i can't talk about them logically. but i get the feeling something else will fly in my craw and i'll be back. i promise, though, not to let it take over the blog. that i know i can do.
grades are done. wasn't too bad. now off to get all my ducks in a row for this trimester (funny aside: i tried to use this phrase last week and said "get all my eggs in a row." guess it's better than "all my ducks in one basket." God bless you malapropisms).
Now playing: Slaid Cleaves - Key Chain
*sigh*
walked into my classroom at 7:15, just as the bell rang for first bell. not bad considering it's usually a 20-25 minute drive with no traffic. i'll let you do the math. at least i woke up in time to make it, though.
and then i find out that ohio once again royally screws everything during an election. they have now given hillary every reason to continue to tear the democratic party apart with her negative campaigning and grandstanding. more power to her. even though she still trails in delegate count, she now feels the vote in ohio shows that everyone in the country wants her to be president. so like some demonic groundhog, ohio has said there will be three more long months of distortions and attacks from both sides so by the time the general election comes, all mccain will have to do is point to the negativity of the past six months and say, "see, i'm better than that." and so the democrats will snatch defeat from the jaws of victory once again.
my take: if hillary gets the nomination, i will "throw away" my vote and give it to nader. because really, both mccain and clinton will do little to fix what's wrong with our political system. not that i'm convinced obama could do any better, but at least he's pointed in that direction. the other two are the same old same old. of course, that might change if she takes obama as her vice president, but her campaign has left such a horrible taste in my mouth, it will be hard to vote for her. and no, it's not because i'm sexist, thankyouverymuch. it's not because she's female - it's because she's what i hate about politics.
you would think since i hate politics so much i would not talk about them, especially since most of the time i can't talk about them logically. but i get the feeling something else will fly in my craw and i'll be back. i promise, though, not to let it take over the blog. that i know i can do.
grades are done. wasn't too bad. now off to get all my ducks in a row for this trimester (funny aside: i tried to use this phrase last week and said "get all my eggs in a row." guess it's better than "all my ducks in one basket." God bless you malapropisms).
Now playing: Slaid Cleaves - Key Chain
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
drive-by posting
no time to post. must finish grades. but wanted to keep my lenten promise. so....
voted today. no wait. no problems. still feels like my vote is wasted because someone nullified my vote not long after i voted. but that's the way elections go, i suppose. won't know the results until well in the morning. i'll probably still be up, so i'll have to check and see how it turned out.
on the way to the polls, the wilco/billy bragg number "christ our president" came on my mp3 player. funny.
singing rehearsal tonight - "be our guest" and "human again." guess i know which songs will be stuck in my head the next couple of days.
life will be much better tomorrow at 7am when 2nd tri grades are posted. life will be just a little less hectic. and third tri doesn't look too bad grading-wise which is good.
enough time wasted. must get to grading.
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Now playing: Neko Case - That Teenage Feeling
via FoxyTunes
voted today. no wait. no problems. still feels like my vote is wasted because someone nullified my vote not long after i voted. but that's the way elections go, i suppose. won't know the results until well in the morning. i'll probably still be up, so i'll have to check and see how it turned out.
on the way to the polls, the wilco/billy bragg number "christ our president" came on my mp3 player. funny.
singing rehearsal tonight - "be our guest" and "human again." guess i know which songs will be stuck in my head the next couple of days.
life will be much better tomorrow at 7am when 2nd tri grades are posted. life will be just a little less hectic. and third tri doesn't look too bad grading-wise which is good.
enough time wasted. must get to grading.
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Now playing: Neko Case - That Teenage Feeling
via FoxyTunes
Monday, March 03, 2008
third time's a charm
so yesterday we learned our third version of the choreography for gaston's number. seems the first two weren't exactly what dennis had in mind. much happier to be making the changes now instead of, say, the week before the show. muscles are a little sorer today than usual, possibly because of the kicks i have to do now. feeling much more comfortable with the dancing than at first - i'm pretty good with choreography, assuming i can see how it's done and don't have to try and translate fancy french words. and the more we work on it, the more confident i get, which can only help.
still don't know who i am beyond the baker - think i'm going to have to ask next rehearsal so i can figure out exactly when i am called. keep thinking i missed a communique somewhere along the line. time to put my trepidation aside and ask.
stayed after school today until 7 finishing up the exams. now i just have to finish up the senior research papers so i can post final grades by wednesday. throwing a wrench in the plans is voting and house church and rehearsal tomorrow. but if i can make it through tomorrow, i should finally have a little breathing space, what with OGT coming next week. hopefully i'll be able to catch up on some of the little things that have fallen between the cracks - like taking down my christmas tree, which still stands in my front window. sad, i know.
so i decided to take possession of a piano today. i had just been talking to rachel on friday about how i regretted not taking advantage of a free piano offered to me a year or so ago. so when this one came up on the district bulletin board, i jumped on it. did a little research and even at its most expensive, it should be less than $200 for the piano to be moved to my humble abode from mason. not a bad deal at all. will still have to get it tuned, but it seems a good way to spend some of my tax return. now if i could just learn to play it...
time to curl up and sleep.
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Now playing: The Raveonettes - Blush
via FoxyTunes
still don't know who i am beyond the baker - think i'm going to have to ask next rehearsal so i can figure out exactly when i am called. keep thinking i missed a communique somewhere along the line. time to put my trepidation aside and ask.
stayed after school today until 7 finishing up the exams. now i just have to finish up the senior research papers so i can post final grades by wednesday. throwing a wrench in the plans is voting and house church and rehearsal tomorrow. but if i can make it through tomorrow, i should finally have a little breathing space, what with OGT coming next week. hopefully i'll be able to catch up on some of the little things that have fallen between the cracks - like taking down my christmas tree, which still stands in my front window. sad, i know.
so i decided to take possession of a piano today. i had just been talking to rachel on friday about how i regretted not taking advantage of a free piano offered to me a year or so ago. so when this one came up on the district bulletin board, i jumped on it. did a little research and even at its most expensive, it should be less than $200 for the piano to be moved to my humble abode from mason. not a bad deal at all. will still have to get it tuned, but it seems a good way to spend some of my tax return. now if i could just learn to play it...
time to curl up and sleep.
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Now playing: The Raveonettes - Blush
via FoxyTunes
Sunday, March 02, 2008
Beauty and the Beast ticket info
Step into the enchanted world of Broadway's modern classic. Based on the Academy Award winning animated feature, the stage version includes all of the wonderful songs from the film, written by Alan Menken and the late Howard Ashman (the team responsible for Little Shop of Horrors), plus new songs written especially for the Broadway version by Mr. Menken and Tim Rice (Aladdin, Aida).
The show was 60% sold by the first rehearsal, so don't wait too long to order your tickets!
NOTE: if you order online or by phone, there will be an extra $2.50 service charge AND a $2.75 handling fee (this is out of our control). You can avoid these fees by going to the box office at the Aronoff or by making arrangements for someone to order them for you. If you're looking at the seating charts, look at the one for the Jarson-Kaplan Theater.
Show Dates
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Ticket Prices
$21.50 & $20.50*
*20.50 for 1st and 2nd side balconies AND for groups of 10 or more for each performance
Tickets can be purchased in person, by phone, or online
In Person: At the CAA Ticket Office -
By Phone: Call (513) 621-ARTS (2787)
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