CHALLENGE
Six days left. Will I survive? I don’t know. I’m in the middle of a pissing contest with a custodian, of all people. (Apparently, I missed the memo where I was told the head custodian decides what should be in my room and what should not and if she decides that my resources – including all 24 of my lab pianos that were purchased before my time – need to be trashed, so she can load my room with rickety tables I don’t want or need and that are dangerous, then I have to understand that.)
Trust me. Those tables will be gone by the time I leave by the end of the school year. We have been fighting over them pretty much all school year. It’s unreal. The next time she tells me I only need 2 or 3 pianos, I’m going to ask if she intends to only issue one roll of toilet paper to the bathrooms, for everyone to share.
Did my grade level testing today. I was very concerned because I have been unable to review the last two weeks. Seeing how I only see them once a week, it was… well concerning! My room’s floor has been stripped and I’ve been told – again by the custodians – that I’m not allowed to have children in my room. Wait until next week when I haul kinders down to rehearse for graduation. Hmmm mmm. My sub didn’t show up (because there is no way I can test, grade, load the grades into the State System, and update the data AND teach 5 classes in one day.) and it took the Wrath of God (and a lot of Zee tears) to get a replacement sub 2 and a half hours late. Anyway, they’ve stripped one of the 1st grade classrooms, so that ENTIRE class was pulled into ANOTHER 1st grade class AND the room has about 8 3rd graders who passed their mandated testing and didn’t need remediation for the 2nd go round next week.
So the head of the department takes me down to an empty classroom where I set up, only to discover NONE of the computers – 3 of them – have ANY audio capability. And 2 of the questions are audio.
I attempted to recreate them. One was on an instrument, so that was okay, however the other was vocal. Zee is a contralto with asthma. The listening selection was of a coloratura soprano. My sweeties know Ms. Z sings low and that’s how they answered the question. My apologies to Heidi (the singer) and Schubert for slaughtering such a beautiful piece.
Also my German sucks. I’m sure I saw a few students cringe.
Either way, one of the custodians tries to lay me out for using a room SHE didn’t give me permission to use. I told her tough titties and oh btw – I didn’t let me in the room, the department chair did, so go talk to her. They won’t mess with her at all.
Despite all of that, they did really well – all passed or exceeded. I”m in shock. I have to start hunting up the ones that missed tomorrow on my own time. Hope the 20 that weren’t here show up tomorrow.
Edit: I want to clarify that the state did NOT provide me with recordings. The question stated – what music is the teacher playing? So I provided the music they were familiar with.
Challenges
I turned off notifications from the places I tend to buy clothes from. Told Spawn if catalogs came in to just toss them, no matter what cute tote they were giving away was on the cover. We have things to do this summer, money to save. A 3 day excursion to Charleston is in our plans, especially since That Man promised to take me there for a ‘special weekend’ – and obviously that didn’t pan out. So while Spawn and I can’t afford a nice hotel, we can afford squatter’s cheap (Motel 6) and a few days R&R at some of the memorials and Boone’s Plantation.
Also, Dragoncon is not so far down the road.
Challenged!
Β #15 – A character everyone else loves that you hate. OR Watch Zee’s butt get kicked. Sell tickets. Popcorn. I’m sure someone will say – here. Hold my beer.Β
Here’s the problem. The characters I hate – I mean really hate – no one loves. At least, I don’t know anyone who would love these god-forsaken lowlifes. For real. I don’t.
So rather than hate a character everyone else loves, I’ll sort of…. reinterpret it.
Name a character everyone loves that you’re rather…. meh to. Immune to.
Easy Peasy. John Thornton.
Now before everyone piles on the hate, I watched North and South spread out over… oh… year or two. I watched an episode, got busy with life and then watched another one and got side-tracked and watched part of one and then back-tracked and waited for a while and then watched the last episode loooooooooong afterwards. With the exception of that train scene…. and that kiss…. which yeah, makes up for a lot…
It doesn’t help that I’m not so fond of Margaret.
Perhaps, I should have a grand re-watch… Everyone LOVES this character, loves this show and I’m just… immune.
I’ll just tip-toe out….
LOL! Good to know I’m not the only one. π
TWO people who don’t much like Thornton. Wow, a new world is opening up for me. π
It’s not that I don’t like him. I’m simply not…. moved. Until the train scene.
Well, that is an excellent scene to be moved by! π
Same here.
My mind is blown. π
Skully didn’t like him either, but I think primarily because she always favored labor over management. (and she came to Armitage from Spooks and pretty much stayed there; she never got anywhere near as interested in his other roles)
LOL! And sacrilege!!! π I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone say they didn’t like John Thornton before… I for one love him. Having said that, I have to admit it’s refreshing to see a differing point of view on Thornton. That is memorable and unique. π
I wouldn’t say that I don’t like him but if N&S was the only thing I had seen RA in I doubt I would be a fan now.
But of course it’s impossible to know since I watched N&S because I was a fan. *g*
Btw, I said it before that I am not very much nto N&S *or* Mr. Thornton. π
I’ve watched a LOT of things I normally wouldn’t because I’m a fan. Hannibal comes to mind. And yes, N&S and Berlin Station. I’ll probably watch Strike Back and Spooks over the summer.
I”m STILL not going to watch Pilgrimage
No Pilgrimage for you? Too much blood and eeeek? I want to see it. (And soon, thank you very much.)
Spooks was where my descent into the hell of fangirling began. *g*
I hope you will enjoy it – well, till season 9 where they really f***ed it up. Great acting there by Richard, but the story … hmpf.
I’ve heard that most RA fans do NOT consider Season 9 to exist.
And yeah, watching Richard’s character commit some heinous torture rather graphically ISN’T my cuppa. I’ll probably wait until I can download it and then zip through those parts.
Yeah, maybe it just never registered on my brain that it’s possible to not be a fan of John Thornton. π It has registered now. π
N&S was my “gateway” role. But it really took watching it a second time before I was well-smitten. In addition to being a strong, upright man, I like that Thornton has such a strong relationship with his mother. And the proposal scene is pretty awesome. It’s the one scene where Margaret actually shows some fire!
BTW, I likely wouldn’t have gone to see The Hobbit movies if I hadn’t already been a fan!
oh I would have gone to see the Hobbit, no matter who was in it. LOTR was my gateway to Tolkien!!!
Oh I know that… my family all loved LOTR… me not as much. Although I did go to see the first LOTR with my then 4-month-old baby on my lap. Most memorable for me is my mother continually saying “Cover his ears! He’ll go deaf!” during the fighting. LOL.
I had never read the books. I didn’t go to see it in the theater until that summer – when it was at the dollar theater (for 7 months!) My sister dragged me to the 11 PM showing – I had kicked my then fiance out and had holed up in the house for 2 weeks. I was so hooked after the first movie, I went to the used bookstore to buy the books – only to discover they weren’t quite following the books. But it was okay – I enjoyed them.
I like Thornton, a lot really, but the character hits a little too close to reality for me and my mother-in-law was a reincarnation of Thornton’s mother. I read the book for school and never thought it a romantic story (the book not show) until I’d seen N&S the second time round. By then I was already way into Sir Guy and didn’t immediately think much of it all cause obsession over Sir Guy has pretty much surpassed my obsession of Batmanπ Not that I’ve given up on Batman, but Sir Guy . . . well that character is an irresistible fantasy, for me at least. I imagine it is the tall dark emotionally unavailable magnetism that keeps me coming back for more. Even seeing RA in real life doesn’t diminish my interest in Sir Guy. I should stop . . . my assessment contrasting and comparing the two may need more thought before I try to express it. Maybe I should stop thinking about fantasy men. Heh
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