weekend is almost here

sitting in the auditorium at the middle school, trying to simultaneously avoid grading and the community theater production of The Odd Couple, the female version. both are equally painful, though at this point, i'd take the grading over the production, judging from sounds emanating from behind the closed door.

done teaching for the week - tomorrow i get to spend the day at the white house (our curriculum space) working on stuff for sophomore year. don't want to talk about it at the moment and am not sure it would be wise to do so here since so many at school know about this space. though i certainly have some stuff i'd like to sort out - and i even toyed with turning on comments, just to see what people thought of the issue.

intrigued? i shouldn't say more, but know the issue is not uncommon in english education and one i don't think we'll ever get away from. i just hope we do the right thing instead of the expedient thing.

and i've probably said too much already.

heading out tomorrow night with the writer's group from this summer. will probably need the time after tomorrow's adventure. did i say time? i meant alcohol ; ) going somewhere new to me - habits over in oakley. read a couple of reviews. sounds like a decent place. and can't be as crowded as The Pub was last time. i just hope i'm awake. been one of those weeks - not enough sleep, tired most of the time. you'd think i'd learn you can never catch up. you'd think wrong.

B&B rehearsal went well this week. we ran act one for the second time - infinitely better this time around. helps we've had a bit more repetition lately. i know it's the way i learn best. act two is this weekend. need to spend some time practicing with the rehearsal cd (now rehearsal mp3s). i'm fine when we just sing, but not so much when we sing, dance and act. we'll get there. got some of our props this week, which, because we have no where to store them, become the responsibility of the actor. so i have a tray of the ugliest baked goods you've ever seen in the trunk of my car. glad the audience is far away.

other good news: the other corkscrew and i have been added back to part of "be our guest." they needed us to help move some of the set, so we get to come on for the soft shoe portion. glad we paid attention and learned it just in case. so no more whining from me about lack of stage time.

sounds like the play might be over. time to start packing things up so i can get home and grab some sleep before tomorrow. going to need it.
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now playing: phil keaggy - baby blue.

birthday shoutouts, part deux

had a fantastic dinner/dessert with gina and the novotnis. love me some dewey's. and some graeter's. so good. glad there are no calories on your birthday...

some more well wishers:

via snail mail card:
gina
steve, becky and uly

via phone call:
dad and mom
candice

via text message:
anne
shannon

via email:
sarah
andie
karen
and in her first ever appearance in my email box - my sister, jen. yes she finally broke down after years and got a computer. now i can send her all kinds of annoying forwards...

an excellent birthday. thanks to everyone who helped make it great. now i need to head to bed - christina (my student teacher) is going to a job fair tomorrow, so i have to teach all of my bells. whatever shall i do...?

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Now playing: Weird Al Yankovic - White & Nerdy
via FoxyTunes

you say it's your birthday?

it's my birthday too!

no great epiphanies on entering my 39th year of existence. 38 down, only God knows how many to go. we'll see what happens.

headed to dewey's to get my free pint glass tonight, then to graeter's for my free ice cream and then to rehearsal for...well, lots of standing around i think. but before i head off to paint the town a hazy shade of rouge, i wanted to send a shout out to all those who took the time to remember me on my special day - well, special except for the 18 million or so people that share my birthday with me (yes, i was geeky enough to look it up - 17,995,207. give or take a few thousand).

via my surprise party back in march:
bethany and andy
brent
steve and angela
nikki
mike and andrea (via phone)

via actual snail mail cards:
jenna
andy
ruthie
bea
jay
best buy

via email:
shannon
kat
sam
brian
ang
rhonda
robin
john
city barbeque

if you haven't sent your wishes yet, you still have eight hours or so to do so.

does that sound desperate?

ok, off to suck the marrow out of my birthday. more after rehearsal if i'm not too drunk to type (i kid, i kid).
Æ

ps how appropriate that this is the song playing for me today...

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Now playing: Adam Ant - Goodie Two Shoes
via FoxyTunes