Today marked two wonderful years with Sharon Salmon, my Honey Bunny! She managed to find the time to come and visit me this week so we could be together on our two year anniversary, despite me still having to teach, the week before our last marching contest of the season no less! It was wonderful seeing her, and I can't wait until I see her again.
But today was wonderful for many other reasons. The high school band had a phenomenal rehearsal today, just the kind you want the last couple days of the season. I think they're going to be very successful at the ZIA marching festival. Will it be trophy winning successful? I don't know, that's up to the kids. But as far as I'm concerned the amount of musical improvement they've made the past two weeks is success enough for the season, regardless of how placements and trophies turn out.
I also was observed today. I'll spare this blog the details, but it went very, very well. It was the perfect encouragement I needed at this point in the semester. I was just starting to feel very, very burnt out. But it's amazing what some honest approval and constructive criticism can do for the spirit. Something to take note of while teaching students!
I also received word that a friend of my is petitioning Canyon Masonic Lodge #730 for membership, though it was totally unknown to me that he was seeking membership. While I missed the actual stated meeting for the month tonight, it was good to hear that good men are seeking to becoming better men in Masonry. I truly think we're on the verge of a Masonic revival as my generation starts to reject the superficialities of our culture in favor of a life more deep in meaning and spirituality. I also think the Masonic Lodge is the perfect place for men to seek that deeper meaning of life. And with marching season almost over, I can spend more time at the Lodge, which I very much miss.
So yes, it's been an amazing day. Thanks life! I needed this one. :)
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Saturday, October 2, 2010
Not Enough Hours in the Week
Mondays are fourteen hours long, Tuesdays the same. Wednesdays are nice, only up at the school then hours then. Thursdays? Those are twelve hours, and Friday's have football games, so they're typically sixteen hours long. Then either rehearsals or contests on Saturdays. Which leaves me Wednesday evenings and Sundays to take care of all the extra stuff I need to get done.
Stuff like trying to find time to order my cap and gown. (I can't make it to the WT bookstore during the day, how am I supposed to manage?) I need to sit down and find time to order graduation announcements. I need to take my GRE in case I don't get hired on in Canyon, so I have a back up plan for the next year, i.e., graduate work at WT while I tech and teach lessons with the CHS Band. (Although hopefully, I'll just get a job. I'm working on the assumption that nothing will open up, however.)
I also would love to find time for extra sectionals with my drum line. I hate pulling them out of rehearsals to work on music, because then they're missing drill work which they really need. But what options are left to me? With the lessons I teach, classes I have, and set rehearsals I've already set up, the only time I can do outside of class sectionals is Tuesday or Wednesday nights at 7:00, or Sundays. That obviously wouldn't go over well for a variety of reasons. I'm willing to give up the time, but I don't want to ask that of my students, or their parents.
I wish I had time to sit down and figure out all this graduation/graduate work stuff. I think I finally have graduation set up and good to go, but I want to be taking grad school courses in the spring (unless my dream job opens up over Christmas...) and that's a whole other test and application that I haven't even started on.
Honestly, I'm just glad I managed to squeeze my music certification test in and pass it. Squeezed it in on a Sunday no less, I was lucky. Only Sunday testing option in the panhandle this semester. I think I was blessed that opportunity was available. Now I only need another few small miracles, and my life will be on it's ideal course.
Regardless, I need another weekday to fit everything in. One where the banks aren't closed, and the world doesn't shut down like on Sundays. Because Sunday afternoons are great for rest, but just don't cut it when trying to catch up on life.
Stuff like trying to find time to order my cap and gown. (I can't make it to the WT bookstore during the day, how am I supposed to manage?) I need to sit down and find time to order graduation announcements. I need to take my GRE in case I don't get hired on in Canyon, so I have a back up plan for the next year, i.e., graduate work at WT while I tech and teach lessons with the CHS Band. (Although hopefully, I'll just get a job. I'm working on the assumption that nothing will open up, however.)
I also would love to find time for extra sectionals with my drum line. I hate pulling them out of rehearsals to work on music, because then they're missing drill work which they really need. But what options are left to me? With the lessons I teach, classes I have, and set rehearsals I've already set up, the only time I can do outside of class sectionals is Tuesday or Wednesday nights at 7:00, or Sundays. That obviously wouldn't go over well for a variety of reasons. I'm willing to give up the time, but I don't want to ask that of my students, or their parents.
I wish I had time to sit down and figure out all this graduation/graduate work stuff. I think I finally have graduation set up and good to go, but I want to be taking grad school courses in the spring (unless my dream job opens up over Christmas...) and that's a whole other test and application that I haven't even started on.
Honestly, I'm just glad I managed to squeeze my music certification test in and pass it. Squeezed it in on a Sunday no less, I was lucky. Only Sunday testing option in the panhandle this semester. I think I was blessed that opportunity was available. Now I only need another few small miracles, and my life will be on it's ideal course.
Regardless, I need another weekday to fit everything in. One where the banks aren't closed, and the world doesn't shut down like on Sundays. Because Sunday afternoons are great for rest, but just don't cut it when trying to catch up on life.
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