Seriously

Since I have the day off I have been watching a lot of TV and I just saw a commercial for a show called "Raising the Bar" and at the end of the commercial it said "Don't miss the next episode of 'Raising the Bar' brought to you by Viagra." Really? Could we be a little more blatant in our advertising?

Open Letter

To my friends and strangers who blog,

I am bored. You people need to start writing or I am going to be forced to do real work and nobody wants that.

Thank you

9.5

That is how many hours before I am free of the shackles. I will have a 4 day weekend with no commitments to this school to bring me back here. What really sucks is that I couldn't just leave as soon as the bell rings. No I have to come back for Parent Teacher Conferences. Which would be fine if I didn't just sit there and have no one to talk to. Parents don't come to talk to me for the most part the kids are doing fine in my class or if they are not I have already spoken with the parents so nothing really to discuss. So there I will be with my computer open with nothing to do but Bubble shooter.

Yet another busy weekend.

So my weekends have been filling up lately and I am so glad that I have a 3 day work week this week. Thank god for Fall break. So any way Friday night was the first night of sectional play and is it bad of me to have hoped for a loss so we wouldn't have any more games to play for? Sad times though because we won. Damn it! Well the upshot was that because I had also made plans for Friday night I got to leave at the half. I ran home and changed for a Halloween party. The boys and mom (not my real mother) decided to do a group number and we went as the Munsters. I was Grandpa, mom as Eddie, Blanche as Lily and FN as Herman. We would have had a Marilyn if Romeo had felt better, but he stayed home. I got really drunk (shock) and ended up at Gregs for a bit until someone said something about food and we then proceeded to Olleys for breakfast. To tell you how drunk I was I smudged my make up on the window of Olleys. Did I mention I used my face to smudge it there? I did wipe most of it off with a napkin but a lot of it was still there the next night.

Speaking of, Yes I know I said I would never do the Bag Lady Bus tour again but I went to take care of my friends Athena and Mom. This was Athena's first time and I think she had mixed feelings about it. My problem the last time I did it was that the bars we went to were so damned crowded, people smoking on the buses and it went on for like 8 hours. This time around there were less people in the bars or I opted out of going into the bars, No one could smoke on the buses and they shortened the tour so I was much happier and we didn't run out of booze. That was helped because on one of the stops I ran to the liquor store and got more Jack Daniels. :) All went well there was no vomiting on the bus this year and no one tried to grab my junk. Though it was touch and go (so to speak) in the 501, Athena and Mom thought it would be great to pimp me out to the dirty old men. I just smiled a lot and didn't offer up any body parts. It was fun to meet Cherry Ride who is a part of my blog roll but you wouldn't know it since he hasn't blogged in like 2 months. Cherry came done from Chicago with his friends who use to live in Indy. Here is hoping this jump starts his blogging again.

Let's see what else happened on that bus tour. I was accosted by a member of the Big Gay Band. He I believe thinks that we are no friends because I left the band. I am not sure why that is. I stated to him that my reasons for leaving is because people obsess over the BGB and want to stir up drama. Much like his wanting to continue the conversation at the next 15 stops on the tour. He told me that he agrees that people are gossipy and drama and need to let things go. Yet there I was rehashing things I had let go of months ago. Thank god FN understood I needed saving and got me out the first time. I was like let it go man I am not drunk enough to deal with you. I appreciate that he acknowledges that they are messed up and need a lot of fixing and that I could have done some good but I don't care anymore. This would have been a good revelation to have had a year ago.

Now on to something else. Shout outs go to Veronica Storm, Ladonna, Donna Rhea and my gurl Halle Pino for competing in the Bag Lady Pageant and congrats to Donna Rhea as the new Bag Lady Queen. And because I loves me some Halle Pino I will say this once and in public, Halle was robbed!! :) That was for you Halle love you, mean it.

Well that pretty much rounds out my weekend. It was long and tiring but a good time was had by me.

My life on tv

So I for some reason last night watched two episodes of Nanny 911. Yea, I don't know either. Anyway I was noticing some parallels in what was going on in the show and what goes on at work. Special K is the worrying mother that doesn't want to discipline the children and do everything for them but gets upset when the children won't do for themselves or behave. And I am the Father who goes around yelling at the kids and cleaning up after them and then gets angry at the mother for inconsistent behavior. I gotta say it was way creepy to see it being played out on TV. I mean really it is exactly what I see every day. Example I just received a call from Special K. Saying the truck that she rents for the band that needs to go back today is still full of stuff. I have been telling her all week to get it done. But she calls me and wants me to send my class, My Class over to unload it in the rain. My lesson plan be damned. I love how she asks if I have a class right now. I should have said no because I don't answer the phone during class unlike someone I might mention. Seriously what the f*ck is her problem. I told her no because I am giving a quiz on Monday and today they have to review. Sorry about her, I have my stuff planned and I need to stick to my schedule. She is so disorganized, she has had since last Saturday when we got back from regionals to get that done. I said that night we should have unloaded it. She said it would be fine to wait for Monday, of what week!?!?!?!?!?!?

Anyway back to my original thought do you think that the Nanny's would want to come and work with a band?

Sad times

I knew it wouldn't last. I knew I would find something that would break us up. I just had no idea it would be so soon and I would grow to despise him so quickly. I am speaking of course about my imaginary bf, the hot guy who moved in down the hall last month. I never even learned his name. But it matters not. When I saw the McCain/Palin sign in the window of his apartment and I knew it could never be. So long hot guy down the hall.

Busy weekend

Here is a recap of my weekend.

Friday Work and then a football game. The football game was annoying and I will tell you why. First we have no field to play on so we must travel somewhere in the city to play our games. This is fun let me tell you. So with that in mind as I was leaving the campus a parent comes running up to tell me that no one was driving the last shuttle of kids as they just sat in the van. As I was pulling my car back into it's parking space another parent jumped into the drivers seat. Great because I hate driving kids anywhere. So I am following the last shuttle and it stops on Emerson and the parent gets out of the car and walks back to my car and tells me that a student is back at the school. So I turn around and go back for the student. I pick her up and we head back down town to the game. I am just seconds from the field when Special K calls to tell me a kid left his instrument at the school. Not just a student but a Senior and one who thought he should have been section leader, uh huh. I pull up let the child out and Special K tells me not only did one student leave their instrument but 2 others as well. So I turn back around and drive back to the school for the instruments. I get them and get back to the game roughly 1 hour and 15 minutes after I started. Yes giving new meaning to driving all over hells half acre.

Saturday starts with a phone call from Romeo seeing if I wanted to do breakfast with him and Blanche. I say sure and head to the shower but before I get there my phone rings and it's a parent who needs into the shed. I ask if they had tried Special K they said yes but she wasn't answering. Great! I head to school and let them in and then I go home shower, change and head to breakfast. Good breakfast and a much needed break from kids since I had to leave breakfast and go back to school where I load buses and go to southern Indiana for a marching band competition. We lost but that is fine. At least that meant we didn't have another weekend of this crap. So we get home around midnight and the last kids is picked up about 1am and then I can go home.

Sunday I get up and lay in bed contemplating getting up. An hour later I get up and move to the couch. 3 hours later I get up and take a shower. At this point I need to get ready and go back to school for an Orchestra concert. That all goes fine and I am pleased with the way they played. Was it great? No, but it was head and shoulders above where there were last year for the first concert. I had many people not sure what the songs were that they played. I couldn't have told you and I had the score in front of me. This year however it sounded great (for them) and you could recognize and even hum along to the tunes. So bravo to my Strings. :)

After that I ran home to change because I didn't feel like staying in a suit for the rest of the night. I then head to a drag show. My friend Blanche aka Summer Clearance did a great number where she was dressed as Sarah Palin and performed to Harper Valley PTA. I must say the "illusion" of the Governor was spot on. I was very impressed with how he pulled it off. Now the main reason I was there was to support Halle Pino (Romeo) who was competing that night for the crown of Bag Lady Queen. She did a great job and I hope she wins. She has done a lot for the Bag Ladies which is a fundraising organization that is a group of men in dresses. I do not call them Drag Queens because for many of them the female illusion is lost when there is a full beard and chest hair especially when your evening gown has a plunging neck line. I do give a shout out to all the Bag Ladies who competed this year but I still hope my girl Halle wins. She did a fierce performance to a dance remix of Can You Feel the Love Tonight. Of course she did it in a cat outfit complete with ears and tail. Also for the talent potion you would be amazed what she can do to/with a piccolo. And yes I boiled it before I put it back in it's case.

So that was my surreal weekend. And I wasn't drunk for any of it. Though I wanted to be.