I Think I'll Disappear Now-Crash Test Dummies

Extra 50% off
Originally uploaded by robertbrook.com.

Day Off
Shopping
Tanning
Just hanging out...

Found Target to be full of moms with screaming toddlers...once where I called my "place to be".
Purchased a rug and pillow for the couch on the clearance rack, a few new kitchen garbage cans, and some Sponge BOB stickers for my school store tommorow.

Meandered over to the local Home Depot...now that is where the action is...no screaming toddlers here. Just guys with real dirt underneath their fingernails, flannel shirts and multiple "3 conversations per day" opportunities!
"Hey, seems like a true closet organizer dilemna here", I say with a smile. "Yeah, tell me about it", he grins and fidgets! I stalk the aisles for 50% off deals and more conversations...(Mental Note-Gosh am I wierd.) And then...

"Running into you like this without warning
Is like catching a sniff of tequila in the morning
But I'll try, I'll try to keep my food down
That's quite an after-taste that you've left now that you're not around

You can just pretend we're not in the same room
Well, alright, I'll just mosey to the bathroom
You flew by like a summer vacation
And you left me with TV-movies and a messy kitchen

I think I'll disappear now, slip out sideways
Just for awhile - but until then I'll stay in and sleep late, excuse me"
-Crash Test Dummies

Yep, just like that... a real CRASH

Bumping into HIM

a BLAST from the PAST

Enough said....
I never in my wildest dreams expected to see him in a hardware store! I thought maybe his hired help did the shopping. I didn't even think he owned a flannel shirt. Why isn't he watching over the staff at his upscale bistro? (It is close to lunch time.) I was his first. It didn't end pretty. Off to college in a far off place, and on to bigger and better things than a girl with a teaching degree. Little did he know...this girl with a teaching degree got over him. No, I'm not living on Lake Drive in his neighborhood, but he is shopping in mine! Ha!!!...Who's in the BARGAIN BASEMENT now baby????

Flew over to the tanning salon, greased up and
sweltered in the heat of the moment!!

Working for the Weekend-Loverboy

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Originally uploaded by evenwu.

Let's play it straight...
I Like to WORK

I enjoy getting out
talking to coworkers
mingling in the hallyway...
teachers lounge
lunchroom
classroom
inservices
students...YES my students!!
collecting my mail
checking my emails
voicemails
preferred faculty parking
staff bathroom
personalized desk items
funny classroom posters
keys and badge hanging around my neck
taking attendence
giving dirty looks
exchanging silly smiles
browsing the library
listening to announcements
hallway patrol
fire and bomb scare drills
change of class bells
school sporting events
school store
spirit wear
staying on top of new trends
surprising students with treats for no reason
movie days
field trips
the staff popcorn machine

I REALLY like my JOB

...but
tomorrow...
I have off...
...on a MONDAY
...and I wouldn't give it up for the
WORLD

Driver 8-REM

VW Karmann Ghia
Originally uploaded by Sherlock77.

So today I am off of my MOVIE kick
Awoke with visions of...hmmm...
Sports Cars
from the previous evening at the 2005 Car Show

If I could turn back time I would go back to the days in my life when I was a brand new teacher driving an older model 1970's Volkswagon Kharman Ghia as pictured in this Blog entry. It was exactly like this one except for three factors:

Robin's Egg Blue!!
A few spots of rust on the rocker panels
And a heater that did not work.

It was the best car I ever drove: cute, to the point, and Automatic Stick..only because I have never mastered a clutch...auto stick allows you to release your foot off the gas, change gears, and put the peddle back down. I was in heaven!

Times changed and as I began to collect payroll checks I was talked into getting something new, had a warranty, and wasn't ready to choke on the freeway. I still don't understand why I listen to others when it should be about ME! But if I had it to do all over again, I would take that car back in a flash. I would buy another right now if I could find one at a reasonable price, in reasonable shape.

But, back to the car show. I found that my favorite model-if I was frivilous and didn't care what I spent, had no concerns about putting two teens through college, and worked through my highly anticipated summers off would be the following:

1. Infiniti G35 Coupe-Pearl White @ $38,000
2. Audi TT-Jet Black @ about the same $$
3. BMW-Silver-Carrera @ $80,000

On the more reasonable list:
1. Acura RSX-Jet Black @ $22,500 Zoomie Award Winner- Best Performing Sport Coupe under $25,000

2. Scion's new tC Sedan-baby blue @ a mere $17,500 and Zoomer Car of the Year

3. Mitsubishi 2006 Eclipse-Silver @$25,000 with all of the trimmings (not out till this June)

So I guess I will just sit and wait to see if my professional contract is renewed for this next school year and drive my fun little Bug around until then...actually I would be more than happy to keep driving it for a few more years, but the teens say it's a total chick car and even though it is a Turbo that managed to give the student driver his first speeding ticket...it just doesn't make the grade!

I'll sit here for now and wait for my newest toys...new washer and dryer arriving today...yahooooo!!! (Big Deal)
Like I really care if I have a new fangled appliance...
I don't even do a whole heck of a lot of wash...but back again...it's the teenagers running this house and as long as they continue to wash their own clothes...I guess I will have to replace the broken tools to do so!

Big Light Bulb Idea here....

Drive the "Chick" car over to the laundromat and plug in some quarters!!!

And the train conductor says
"Take a break Driver 8, Driver 8 take a break
We can reach our destination, but we're still a ways away"
-REM

I Confess-The English Beat

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Originally uploaded by gemellen.

-K...I Confess

Let me explain...
the last blog

The word HORNY
is probably not the ideal word to use here.

It is more like YEARNING

And I went to the car show and found much more
than Beer-tenders...
the Rico-Suave dudes on the moving circular concept car displays were fun to smile at as well...

might as well...
during dinner downtown afterwards,
I enjoy watching the crowds of friends
dance off to the IHL hockey game
and families that are happy
scurry across the street to the circus performance
....much more than attempting to open my mouth
in conversation...
knowing only that my thoughts and ideas
do not match those of my own family members.

It is as if I am from another planet...
or EMPTY
and void...
of all PASSION....ya sorta gotta be if you are thinking romantic thoughts while watching Fisher King or Adam Sandler, for all that matters!

and I enter an Empty house,
open a Teen Vogue,
left over from my subscription ordered
while working at the ALL girls school prior

press my own lips against a
Magazine Model in a photograph

It's not the "horn" word
It's the passion

Too lazy to spin some vinyl and uplift my spirits
Just iTuning in bed
I like how my snow white iBook matches
the white down comforter!!!!
(smile)

Kiss On My List-Hall and Oates

Cold Kiss
Originally uploaded by Jarn.

Hey,
Should've kept spinning the albums, but instead
hit the tanning booth for a bit of warmth
shot over to Walgreens for some upkeep on the
haircolor
and headed
HOME

Chained myself to the couch with
hot chocolate and a warm fire

settled in to make myself
unbelievably horny
(only able to say this cuz no one reads this stupid Blog anyway)

Untamed Heart-Christian Slater
A Walk in the Clouds-Keanu Reeves
My Big Fat Greek Wedding-John Corbett
Two Weeks Notice-Hugh Grant
The Devil's Own-Brad Pitt
The Fisher King-Jeff Bridges
50 First Dates-Adam Sandler

GOSH...Right now, after watching clips of lips upon lips, I would just about settle for a
PASSIONATE KISS

from my mailman!!!

Guess i have way too much time on my hands this weekend. Maybe I'll head over to the car show and flirt with a "BEER-TENDER"

As I told someone just this morning....my life goal is to strike up conversation with at least three new people per day.

Evidently, this doesn't get me anywhere productive!

Still gotta a few kisses on the list, however!

More Than This-Roxy Music

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Originally uploaded by mediaeater.

Yeah...In refference to the previous Blog...
It is soooo much "More Than This!!!"

Can't stop spinning
Had forgot about the enormous amount of music from my past.

One tends to get stuck in the CD world, and although you can purchase many of the past albums on these miniature creatures, they just don't reproduce them all. The mainstream music that is out there, can never come close to the old vinyl stuff that sits in my secret space....waiting to be appreciated!!!

On the "Spin" right now....Roxy Music, the fifth album, 1975...blue cover with mermaid staring at me...ahhhh..."Just Another High"

Waiting in Line....Patti Smith; Wave and David Live- 2 record set-at the Tower Philadelphia-1974

"Rock and Roll With ME"

Life During Wartime-Talking Heads

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Originally uploaded by mediaeater.

This ain't no party
This ain't no disco
This ain't no foolin' around....

In times like this, one just has to pull out all of their old "ALBUMS" and have an absolutely flashback, fabulous...
Record Spin!

Take them out of the wooden crate, handle with care, and plop them onto the turntable. It takes a bit to figure out which ones you MUST listen to first, but once you "get into the groove" you have consumed 5-6 hours of a Friday night and are thinking that those days back in college were the best years of your life!

There is something about the crackling of the vinyl, the steady hand after several drinks that moves the arm back and forth across the album of black to hear that special song...just one more time, and the task it takes to keep turning it over and slipping it back into it's sleeve.

Try to get sidetracked by the album cover art. It has a much greater impact in it's original size than on a tiny cd. And, ahhhh.....the multiple uses of those double albums, the two record sets, that opened up in booklike fashion, to reveal inner secrets, of artistic expression...and, yeah, more!

I don't have to squint my eyes to actually read the lyrics. So I can sing along! (If I so choose?)

So in this day and age of doom and gloom and news that turns depressing...I am gonna have a few more Record Spins....

Thankful to have saved them...sometimes better than a photograph!!

Heaven-Psychedelic Furs

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Originally uploaded by Frank Scheffer.

It's like a big fat
WISH

you blow it into the air and watch it scurry through

your dreams,
fantasies,
the HEAVEN
that you perceive...

Now, my dear
I have wishes
that will

Come True

and I'm gonna make them happen.

I saw the Psychedelic Furs in concert
at the Uptown theatre
back in the 80's
They were fantastic.

So subdued, yet energy driven
and I wore a blue Cub Scout shirt
that had these great patches from
some poor young boy
who worked so very hard
at earning all of them

Then his mom or dad
gave the shirt to GOODWILL
and I snatched it up
and wore it to this great concert

With safety pin in ear
and some funky pointed black boots
I had been in college for just a few years...

and had WISHES back then
as well

All of the superficial ones came true...

but what of those you never imagine to be
important in the long run??????

I had a SUPER day today...
and WISH a super one for you tomorrow...

Just blow on this
scatter it through the air...
wish and dream

the "FURS" are so much more than
PRETTY in PINK

(so am I)

WHERE are YOU?

Vogue-Madonna

Oh Vanessa!
Originally uploaded by noqontrol.

Standing still in the kitchen with early morning Kona coffee I spy a bright red cardinal singing in a snow spotted tree...

and I realize that all of this must stop,
so upstairs I snap myself out of a blur-
put on something nice...
realize I am sporting some bright red of my own
and chalk all of last week up to some really
bad
PMS depression

Good Morning
it's time to strike a pose and
GET ON WITH IT!

After work I stop at the mall
to try on some
swimsuits

That probably was not the best idea...
but all in all

I am still happy

"All you need is your own imagination
So use it that's what it's for (that's what it's for)
Go inside, for your finest inspiration
Your dreams will open the door (open up the door)"
-Madonna

Blue Monday-New Order

On a Sunday night...

Yeah...
It feels like this...looking at Monday...and the week to come

As I try to get a
Grip

I WONDER

Where is the end of this tunnel???

....gotta be somewhere
But not this coming week...

It's gonna be busy

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Originally uploaded by munnecke.

Catapult-Counting Crows

Rubberband Pot
Originally uploaded by wmacphail.

"All of the sudden she disappears
just yesterday she was here
somebody tell me if I am sleeping
someone should be with me here
(cause I don't wanna be alone)"
-Counting Crows


Yeah...It's sorta like that...

In a MOOD...
All coiled up,
like a rubber band (sad face)...

but keeping a smile on the outside...
like usual

Love Stinks-J. Geils Band

Çava
Originally uploaded by arandanita_rockanlover.

This is a totally wierd day...

Grocery store shopping was actually quite hilarious...
Guys on thier way home from work, doing the last minute "Love you so Much " thing...
T-Bone steaks, wine, cheesecake, sushi, flowers, cheese, crackers...you get the picture

And for those who are not...
yeah...it's just a salad

-It's nothing SPECIAL

And for those who are truly yearning for that "special someone"...

Geez...Give it Up...It's just ONE day

Fast Car-Tracy Chapman

volvo in the dark
Originally uploaded by irregulargirl.

Looking Back
Entry #5
FUTURE PAIN
Boyfriends come and go
Dear Mother
Yet you are always
near

A face of Pain
and some regret

Do you often
wish
for your younger years

Or are they-all a blur- in the bottom of-
your bottle?

Will you be
okay
some day
when I am-gone
and you are
here...
left
alone

I worry
but cannot be
afraid

I DO
On this day
that I am wed
I am thankful
that you came
and had a smile
on your face

I will not return to my old room
or the closet that was once
used as an after school hiding place

I have taken my blacklight posters and
Supertramp albums
and as I turn to run down the
aisle

I wear
a crooked
smile

THEME SONG NOT EVEN WRITTEN AT THAT TIME IN MY LIFE-BUT SOOOO APPLIES!
Fast Car-Tracy Chapman
"You got a fast car
I want a ticket to anywhere
Maybe we make a deal
Maybe together we can get somewhere

Anyplace is better
Starting from zero got nothing to lose
Maybe we'll make something
But me myself I got nothing to prove

You got a fast car
And I got a plan to get us out of here
You got a fast car
But is it fast enough so we can fly away
We gotta make a decision
We leave tonight or live and die this way

I remember we were driving driving in your car
The speed so fast I felt like I was drunk
City lights lay out before us
AND YOUR ARM FELT NICE WRAPPED ROUND MY SHOULDER
And I had a feeling that I belonged
And I had feeling I could be someone, be someone, be someone

You got a fast car
You got a fast car
BUT IS IT FAST ENOUGH SO YOU CAN DRIVE AWAY
You gotta make a decision
You leave tonight or live and die this way"

Smoking in the Boys Room-Brownsville Station

rauch
Originally uploaded by christopfer.

Here I am...
Third Ward Mexican Restaurant...
NO SMOKING

Okay...I can handle that for a few hours...
step outside between a course and take a few drags

It's not like I am a chain smoker or something...
And I have been to Non-Smoking California
A time or two

But then...
on top of it all...
To go to ANOTHER bar

YES, I said BAR
that only allows smoking at the BAR

and I am sitting at a TABLE...
only TWO feet from the bar,
drinking a $10 Martini...
Yeah....make that several
and the cute waiter in BLACK
tells me that I need to step to the
BAR!!!...cuzzzzzz "You can not smoke at the tables...
just at the BAR"

Give me a Break!

I am going to the Boy's Room!!!
(And that waiter can follow me there!)

Drive-The Cars

Headlights
Originally uploaded by shadowbox.

I really don't care to drive...
I will do it...
To work,
The mall,
The grocery store...

But anything more than a 10 or 15 minute
period of time
behind the wheel...

Is pretty uncomfortable for me

But today I spent an hour and a half
behind the wheel
with teenage boys
and Snowboards

Driving them out to their favorite
Ski Hill/Snowboard Freestyle arena

Is NOT my idea of fun

At least I got to choose the
CD

Oh yeah,
stopped at the Mall
for a taste of spring fashion
before pulling back
in the driveway!

(A girl's gotta do,
what a girls gotta do)

And on tonight's agenda...

SLUMBER PARTY at my HOUSE

My life is "Driving" me CRAZY

Sick Cycle Carousel-Lifehouse

Head St art
Originally uploaded by ART NAHPRO.

A friend once told me that most people go through life just waiting for weekends and vacations...and it's a shame.

I agree.

And since I have no major vacation planned for the near future...

I'm gonna live for the weekend...
and next...
and next...

Get the Picture??

"So when will this end it goes on and on
Over and over and over again
Keep spinning around I know that it won't stop
Till I step down from this for good

I never thought I'd end up here
Never thought I'd be standing where I am
I guess I kinda thought it would be easier than this
I guess I was wrong now one more time"
-Lifehouse

Bring It On-Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

After a very long week...
I say...

Bring It On!!!

And While You are at IT....

Cut me some limes as well.

Hmmmm...It's only Thursday....but tomorrow we wear pajamas to school...and I can't count that as a REAL day at work...decisions:decisions!

PICT2069
Originally uploaded by didierval.

Take Me Out-Franz Ferdinand

kisshair
Originally uploaded by blueneurosis.

Okay...Double edged sword here...

I had a very busy day...
Great day with the Never Never Land Crowd as well as the Urchlins...

Still causing an uproar with my daily predictions of human behavior...however,

Not real big deal...just because..
I WENT OUT

THREE times in one night...
Dinner with a friend,
Drinks at the bar bumping in to others,
And a date with a "really HOT" bath...glaass of wine in hand

So as the lyrics go...
I feel as if I've been "taken out"

yet...

am holding off on the kiss right now...
...don't wanna "mess my hair"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I Can't Live With You-Queen

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Originally uploaded by pablokorona.

http://www.pablokorona.com/pk


Looking Back
Entry #4

THESE EYES
I have not been drinking
I did not use drugs
you can check my locker
I don't mind

These Eyes
are red and glossy
for other reasons
that I do not feel comfortable
speaking about

Do not call home
or set up an appointment
with my mom

Her eyes look this way too

RUN AWAY
My best friend has run away
but won't run
to my house

I guess I'd like to run away
but what would
happen
to my mother?

DON'T COME OVER
Won't you be be my boyfriend
Take me away
Take me...
Today

Stop my crying
My fear
Sure...
I'll have a beer

Anything to fit in
with a crowd
that is loud
and can drown out the voices
inside of my head

I can be fun
Yeah, the life of the party
Pick me up at 8
Wait...

I'll meet you somewhere
Instead

VALEDICTORIAN
I do not hold it against you
for not showing up
at my graduation

I know that you found
the bottom of a bottle
and could not find
your way
to the high school
parking lot

I know that you don't remember
and think...
that you might have been there

But I have no
snapshopts
in my photo album
and neither
do you

FUTURE PAIN
Boyfriends com
and go
Dear mother

Yet you are always
near

A face of pain
and some regret

Do you often
wish
for your younger years
or are they-all
a blur
in the bottom of-
your bottle

Will you be
okay
some day
when I am-gone
and you are
here
left
alone

I worry
but cannot be
-afraid

Sweetness-Jimmy Eat World

On a SWEET day....
I can still be
DEPRESSED!

....and I don't have
any idea WHY.


"Are you listening?
Sing it back.
So tell me what do I need
When the words lose their meaning.

I was spinning free with a little sweet and simple numbing me.
Yeah, stumble until you crawl.
Sinking into sweet uncertainty.

If you're listening.
Are you listening?
Sing it back.

I'm still running away.
I won't play your hide and seek game.
I was spinning free with a little sweet and simple numbing me.

What a dizzy dance.
This sweetness will not be concerned with me."
-Jimmy Eat World

sweets for my sweet...
Originally uploaded by Sabinche.

A Decade Under the Influence-Taking Back Sunday

One Half
Originally uploaded by codebleu.

A Decade Under the Influence-Taking Back Sunday

okay...

The "Never Never Land" only gives one half of their true potential...
On "Current Event Monday"
I collect the following items of interest...

HEADLINE
"U.S. Snares Patient's Drug From Canada"
RECAP (if I can read the handwriting)
"For three years this guy gets his cholesterol meds from Canada, but this month his meds never show up."
PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE
"I think it's "redikuloius" that they would do that. I think they should have give him a 90 day warning to find a new way to get them."

HEADLINE
"Bush Could Cut Farm Subsidies"
RECAP (none)
PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE
"I think that it should not be allowed because it is his fault we are in debt and he should think of all of us here in the US first"

HEADLINE
"Boogeyman Thrills Box Office"
RECAP "This article is about Boogeyman winning at the box office. It comes out with 19.5 million to start."
PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE
"The movie was decent although "The Grudge" sucked. The setting was good and so were the special FX"

And my absolute favorite...

HEADLINE
"Police Suspected in Man's Beating"
RECAP "Off duty cops were beating a man."
PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE
"It was very unneccesary"

What do I do with this bunch of Hooligan's?

"Well I got a bad feeling about this (what is this for?)
I got a bad feeling about this..."
-Taking Back Sunday

By the Way...

I really didn't need good old Clark Kent today...
As I travel through the hallways...
sometimes mistaken for a student myself...
always much shorter than MOST students myself...
I am my own SUPERHERO!!

...Watching "Ramones Raw" on TRIO as I grade papers that look like they came from
..."Rock and Roll High Shcool"

...and outside my window... it snows!

Rescue-Eve 6

Flying high...
Originally uploaded by Gelatomettista2.

Gosh...
Really coulda used this guy today...and as all of my rational for classroom behavior was starting to make sense...it all blew up in my face. Bad day at both schools...but hey...it's a Monday night already...and I'm gonna drink some wine and chat with friends online.

Hmmm...Clark...I'll be on around 8 or so...unless you wanna fly on over here instead! I've got a pocket full of Kryptonite!

I'm So Bored With the USA-The Clash

Planet Magritte
Originally uploaded by Myth Maker.

Okay...It's Sunday night here

And I am in Desperate need of a "Creative" Current Event for class on Monday...

No...Not a Future Event...

But a Current one...

And today's trip to the Supermarket
Does Not Count...

Neither does this Superbowl!!!

Lost in the Supermarket-The Clash

Hey,
Who are the people that hook into the profession of compiling musical soundtracks for the grocery store? What type of classses do you take for that position? Is there a specific degree, or do you just fall into it because your Aunt Sally retired and they hear that you have her "ear" for music?

Today....while mindlessly wandering the aisles of my local Pick n Save, I find myself singing/humming/swaying along to certain songs in the food store jukebox! Acutally, the venue wasn't all that bad for a Sunday morning....but I became much more sidetracked than usual.

Ended up at home without half the things I needed, or wanted. Took another trip to the "Specialty" store and found such delicacies as Gouda cheese...fresh Guacamole...Orange "DREAM" cake...(just a single slice mind you!)...Kona coffee...a pretty little bottle of Shiraz....and finally, a bunch of my very favorite flowers...Gerber Daisies.
I chose those in the faintest color of pink and replaced the Basket O" Poinsetta that still sat on my kitchen table...with something that just screams...SPRING!

So technically....I was lost in TWO supermarkets. They didn't have the nerve to play any Clash over the speaker system...but the difference between Pick N Save and the second stop is a CLASH in itself!!!

WHY I LOVE DAISIES.......

Maude: I should like to change into a sunflower most of all. They're so tall and simple. What flower would you like to be?

Harold: I don't know. One of these, maybe. (points to a field of daisies)

Maude: Why do you say that?

Harold: Because they're all alike.

Maude: Oooh, but they're *not*. Look. See, some are smaller, some are fatter, some grow to the left, some to the right, some even have lost some petals. All *kinds* of observable differences. You see, Harold, I feel that much of the world's sorrow comes from people who are *this*,
[she points to a daisy]

Maude: yet allow themselves be treated as *that*
[she gestures to a field of daisies]

HAROLD and MAUDE-1971

Get Ready 4 This - 2 Unlimited

Here we go!!!

I'm trying to strike up some fun bets on this game tonight. And yes...it is not like me to pull song titles for my blog off of "Jock Jams" but sometimes the moment calls for something completely different. Toss the coin.
Let's get ready to rumble.

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Originally uploaded by cannonlev.

Perpetual Change-Yes

I Paint

And this afternoon I
shall take down the
Kandinsky-like attempt
42 X 24
that hangs over the TV

Venture into the basement
Crank up some YES

And
Make Some Changes

I'm thinking of trying to replicate
The Scream- E. Munch

Been feeling a little like that lately!

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Originally uploaded by bodhi47.

Walk on the Wild Side-Lou Reed

More like WET Side..
On a 55 degree February day
In Wisconsin
I take a Long Walk with an old friend

The snow melts
faster than my mind rambles
as we dodge puddles, dogs, joggers
and yes,
bikers...in February!

I scooped up my tickets online today for the
Interpol concert
coming up this March at
the RAVE

Can't wait to see...I mean hear... such greats as
Public Pervert
& Slow Hands

So with my feet up
my hand gently caressing the bottle of a beer

I prepare for a night in the near future
that will definitley take me out to the

WILD SIDE!

WALK
Originally uploaded by noqontrol.

Anxious-General Public

On a 54 degree day in February
With window rolled ALL the way down
in Wisconsin...

All I can do is feel Anxious

Great day at Work today...
Broke up a fight in the hallway
and all it took was The Look...
..........and a few words!

At the old "place of employment"
It would've required a 5 person take-down hold
and my own trip to Urgent Care!

Stitching bite wounds, removing lead from pencil stabs, and applying a whiplash collar!

I LOVE my new job

Yet still...
very
ANXIOUS
for Summer Vacation!

Hmmmm. and maybe this lifeguard
prowling out of his hut!

lifeguard
Originally uploaded by bodhi47.

A Murder of One-Counting Crows

Growing Older
Day by Day
Passes

I Watch others
for
Life does not
Revolve around
Me...
Alone

Life
is an Intricate
Weaving

Don't Jump...
Just Yet

There is More here
than meets my
Eye


"All your life is such a shame
All your love is just a dream
Open up your eyes
You can see the flames of your wasted life
You should be ashamed

You don't want to waste your life
You don't want to waste your life...baby

I walk along these hillsides In the summer 'neath the sunshine
I am feathered by the moonlight
falling down on me...
Change, change, change"
-COUTNING CROWS

why
Originally uploaded by Forbidden Apple.

Don't Try So Hard-Queen

The day of the BIG TEST

I don't understand how the youth of today
rambles through time
with no care or concern over
the topics that keep them functioning in
society...

They worry about pimples
upcoming dodgeball tournaments
and dances

If the soda machines in the hallway have been turned off for class yet,
blah...blah...blah

Well, so do I but...
at least I study for Main Events!

I guess no one totaled a grade of 83% or under
As they did remember that Alaska has an odd tax for fishing...along with ways other states differ...&...
The Governor has duties similar to the President...along with ways all states are similar

The area these young adults lack in is the development of a concise paragraph that discusses issues of American government that concern them.

They can't put their thoughts together. They can't take a stand...and if they do they have no definite facts/proof/spine to back them up!

Don't get me wrong...I can still shape them...develop their thought process...teach them to expand their pool of resources...Turn them into budding Einsteins, but in the end...
All they will say to me is...

"Don't Try So Hard....cuz I'm not gonna!"

And I'll still bring the donuts!

MEMO TO SELF:
List of things I TRY SO Hard On-
1. Ummmm...I can't do this right now
I will depress myself!

Einstein Remembered
Originally uploaded by Madrid.

Don't Drink the Water-Dave Mathews Band

At $7 a pop
I decided to side-step the water
and go for the Gold..
Margherita, that is

On a late afternoon
that turns into early,
then later
evening

I join a former co-worker for dinner and drinks
laugh a little
laugh some more
...flirt with a waiter named "Brian"
who wears Stetson cologne from his mother
just received this last Christmas
...share some cheesecake for dessert
(with the co-worker, not Brian)
Balance out a bill
and drive home...
to Ballroom Blitz on CD

Okay....I did have some water as well...
...But the margheritas were well worth
the $$$

The day at school went well
I brought donuts to keep Never Never Land
...happy

One of my Political Gurus ate FOUR in a row...

Let's see if he can get four in a row
correct
on his Unit test tomorrow!

Sent an Urchlin at the Middle School to the office
later in the day...had no materials
poked a peer with a pencil
refused to put bag o' chips
on my desk!

See...when all is well in Never Never Land
(High School morning)
All runs a muck with the Urchlins (Middle School afternoon)

Maybe they shouldn't
...Drink the Water

glass stem
Originally uploaded by ropeboy.

Humor of the Situation-Bare Naked Ladies

I feel like dancin'
Originally uploaded by ART NAHPRO.

It all makes sense...

One child breaks up...
One child finds new love...

One class is totally unruly...
One class is unbelievably behaved...

I...
enjoy the good company...
of good friends!...
And my kid shows up at the same restaurant!

"Come on now, now
Come on now, now
Enjoy the humour of the situation"-BNL