Holy cow, almost a year....

So, I'm feeling a little bit like a looser at this point, but hey life goes on. No one reads this anyway, so I won't stress.

SOME Happenings:

NEW job - I moved to a new school this year, thank THE LORD - seriously! I'm at a wonderful elementary school and I get to help out w/band at the middle school across the street. YES! It's awesome to get my band geek going again.

The year went well and I'm thankful for my new staff, especially my principal. She rocks!

MORE grad classes - I'm taking an independant study now and a choral conducting class this summer. Sheesh. I thought, "Hey, I'm kinda scared about taking the conducting class so that is what I should do." Yup. Then my prof emailed all of us nerdy students and we are conducting the Magnificat by Durante, NOT Bach. For you music dorks out there this is the difference between working with a piece of music you know fairly well and sight reading a completely different piece & style & EVERYTHING. Okay, whatever, but wait - there's more. Yeah, so we are also conducting a small orchestra too. CRAP! Yep, so leave it to me to choose something out of my comfort zone and then have it pushed waaaaayyyy out of my comfort zone. Hilarious. (This is Benton Hall - the music house @ OSU... I know it well...)

This all works with one of my 'new' philosophies. I picked it up somewhere... probably Dr. Laura or something... "or some-sing." Quick, name that movie - ??

Okay, philosophy: If there is something in your life that makes you nervous or scares you or you think might be, or will be, hard DO THAT THING. Start there. If you think, "oh gracious, I hope I don't have to do blah blah blah," then DO THE blah blah blah that you are afraid of. It sure makes life more interesting AND more fun.

My practice ground for this has been subbing. My teaching day ends before the other folks in my building b/c I start earlier than they do. This leads to my office manager, SUSAN THE GREAT. She sneaks in during the day and asks me to sub the last hour or so of the day for teachers who need to go places or whatever. The first time she asked me to sub she had two or three classes to choose from. I looked at the 5th grade classes and said, "Well, so&so is in that room which makes it a yucky experience.... so.... I'll take that one." She just about fell on the floor! "Really?!? You will? No one ever wants to sub in there." Chalk it up to my new committment to tackling tough head on. Makes life MUCH easier, I PROMISE. TRUELY!

Okay, this is rambling on far too long. I'll update more... whenever I get to it. Ha!