Archive for December, 2008

I woke up this morning at 4:57 with two people on my mind.  This happens sometimes.  I usually roll over and go back to sleep.  Today I stayed awake until I heard the alarm go off.  Thinking, thinking, thinking.  I got up eventually and got ready really slowly…sat down and stared off into space, still [...]


let it snow

14Dec08

A “fatal blizzard” is currently raging through my area.  Luckily it didn’t affect the play and we were able to go on as scheduled…I think I would have been slightly devastated had we had to cancel, or worse, postpone! 
Anyway, woke up this morning and everything was cancelled.  It was amazing.  Can’t even see through the [...]


The play was an amazing success, and I am really proud of everyone involved in it.  When people are involved there always seems to be hoops to jump through, but I think it went well.
I feel like I pretty much hadn’t thought of anything else for like a month (although that wasn’t true) and in the [...]


I’m going to be in a play tomorrow.  I’m a little excited about it.  I am more nervous because so much goes into even a small production and everyone needs to work together.  I just don’t want to have any moments where everyone cringes because I mess up on something.  I’m going to have to [...]


training day

08Dec08

Today at work we had to go to “Active Shooter Training.”  I’ll avoid discussing many specifics, but we were encouraged to explore strategies for how to stay alive in these situations that have been happening with increasing frequency in the last 10-15 years.  As an educator I wonder why we have to be considered such [...]