2 Uh...according to who?
3 To whommmmm?
4 Got outta THAT one.
5 The worst thing about Monday is all the stuff you wanted to get done as of Friday.
6 I wanted to find out everything out there about Beethoven as of Friday.
7 Beethoven?
8 Well yeah. This student heard me talking about the BBC Much Ado and steered me to this amazing documentary about Beethoven.
9 I was instantly addicted.
10 The difficult part about the doc was that it was a series of about a million nine-minute docs.
11 Let's see: It was late last night when I decided to send this out on the DN, so I'm crossing my fingers that this is the gateway to the mix:
12 Anybody lookin'? I just tested this and it launched! Fingers still crossed.
13 The other night I decided to put on some headphones and tuck myself away for the night, hoping this would mix itself through and teach me about the Beethoven.
14 It seemed to, although it got interrupted several times by Geico ads and other nonsense with lizards.
15 My feeling is this: pay the toll if you wish to cross the bridge.
16 Fantastic documentary, at times brilliant, at other times almost impossible to watch.
17 I watched it in nine-to-ten minute increments, disrupted only by having to push a button that said Skip Ad.
18 Ahhhh the idyllic life of an absurdest nerd.
19 I played it this morning but found instantly that Beethoven doesn't work first thing on a Monday. Still...
20 Best waste of time I ever experienced.
21 And this was just a gateway.
23 Crazy stuff. For the record, teachers don't always want people to know where they live. We just don't. We like to be left alone sometimes.
25 I like idyllic settings. Beethoven felt that the way to experience God is to be with nature.
26 Indeed.
27 Quite often the internet can get loud and disruptive. Sometimes I'll have two windows open on my laptop and one will suddenly pop loudly with some obnoxious ad. I grow a-weary.
28 Last night I got weekend sleepy from all of it.
30 It's all good.
31 They're Irish.
32 We dream. Or we enjoy napping. I want to nap right now. So do you. <stretchy yawn>
33 Moving On, Part One: Anybody lookin'?
34 It occurred to me last night that Beethoven gets to head for the country while I need to get the new Common Core stuff going.
35 That test is finally here.
36 We give it on Tuesday. For the first time in quite some time my classroom will NOT be used for testing.
37 It's a roll of the dice.
38 For years my classroom has always been used for testing. It's sort of nice because I think my room is one of the nicest on campus.
39 It has a vaulted ceiling and cathedral windows that look out on the green hills of Sannozay.
40 Those of you who have moved: do you remember how beautiful the Sannozay hills look this time of the year? Let me throw a little Love-in-Idleness at you. Here are the hills:
41 Ah, lads and lassies: they are as glorious as ever. They look like a visit to Tuscany, only without castles.
42 Green and worthy of a whistlin'.
43 On any given day I can look out my classroom window and see these very hills. At this point in life it is a welcome moment. When the last student has left the room at the end of the day the silence is as beautiful as any sonata.
44 Just remembered me something.
45 Ah nothing much. I hear a bird.
46 I gottago.
47 Have yourself an awesome Monday if you can bear it.
48 Fly low. Nobody's ready, trust in that one. Go gentle today.
49 See you again.
50 Peace.
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