RETIRING AFTER 33 YEARS!!!
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1 Happy Mondeeeeeee!!!!!!!
2 I'm pretty happy about stuff these days.
3 I watched a doc about Spencer Tracy, with Katharine Hepburn reporting. It was called The Spencer Tracy Legacy featuring Katharine Hepburn narrating.
4 It doesn't get any better than this.
5 My trouble is trying to report it while cooking, cleaning, and smudging my reading glasses.
6 So it goes. It begins with Inherit the Wind.
7 It included interviews with Frank Sinatra, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Widmark, and many others big leaguers, all of whom were knocked out about his ability to play everything with truth and passion.
8 Sinatra would hang above the set and watch Tracy work.
9 Joan Bennet said that if he had to do something in more than one take, that it was a waste of his time.
10 It was entertaining, relaxing and an excellent way to enjoy a Sunday night.
11 With all the stresses stacking up, this was the way to calm it.
12 So happy Monday.
13 Moving On, Part One: Speaking of Elizabeth Taylor, I officially begin The Taming of the Shrew today.
14 Friday rocked. Because of field trips and AP tests, my classes were split, and I had to double teach all week. I had to repeat the assignments for students who weren't in class, and I'll probably have to do a bit of that today.
15 I canceled a huge essay I was going to have to collect and grade tomorrow because it was nearly impossible to get all the info about formatting and all to the students.
16
17 Gee, that's too bad. No papers to grade darn.
18 The notes they took on my Simon and Garfunkel mini-unit can be used on their Final, which is also an essay.
19 On Friday they had a choice to work on Final's notes or help me strip the room, removing everything from the walls and taking anything they wanted home.
20
21 My classroom vanished. They helped move stuff to the English Office, and I threw away a ton of workshop/miracle cures that have come down the pike, complete binders of nonsense I never used.
22 Anything I thought was worthwhile I placed neatly in the English Office. I'm donating class sets of Shakespeare plays to them also. I bought five sets of different shows: Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Julius Caesar, Much Ado About Nothing, and The Taming of the Shrew.
23 Heavy hitters, in mint condition.
24 All of the Renaissance masks came down as well, and many students got sad. I got sad too, but not THAT sad. It breaks my heart to see them sighing, but when I go, I want to go.
25 They return textbooks today then it is Shrew, the classic Zeffirelli version, with all its goofiness, and with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton duking it out.
26 I will provide color commentary on a microphone.
27 Should be lots of laughs.
28 Moving On, Part Two: Headline in this morning's Merc: David Letterman 'THAT'S OUR SHOW'
29 Great pic of Letterman getting ready for the show, with a mirror shot of him fixing his tie and whistling.
30 <sidebar> Doesn't he know that whistling in a dressing room is bad luck to Theatre sorts?
31 His hair wasn't combed, so I was doing the same exact thing this morning when I saw the picture.
32 His last show airs this Wednesday after 33 years as a late-night host.
33 I have always loved Letterman and when younger, would often stay up after writing this nonsense and watch his stuff and STILL get to work on time.
34
35 Gone are the days, although I will probably be recording these last few shows.
36 Moving On, Part the Thoid:
37 What did you think I'd actually stay up and watch them live?
38 I might. I might. Thursday's lesson plan is the same as Monday's.
39 And I'm almost packed up and out of there. The grades will be worked on during the film, so I can fine-tune all that. We have the dreadful Sign-Out Sheet and Grade Packets to turn in even though the grades are online.
40 The Sign-Out Sheet is always hectic because inevitably I miss one of the ten or so people you have to get signatures from: the school bank, the library, the Sign-Out Sheet lady, etc.
41 When I submitted my first semester grades, I was that a different process seemed to be in place, so I rolled with it, pushed the new "submit" button, double checked, triple checked and was STILL told that my grades didn't get to where they were supposed to go.
42 I didn't get mad, because I figured I couldn't have been the only person. It was just an hour I didn't have.
43 Last year I was told that they didn't get my packet of grades, so I did them over, and THEN it turned out they DID have them. I laughed.
44 Fortunately at a large school, those things happen, and we have a pretty gracious staff.
45 I'm just SO eager to get out it's almost shameful.
46
47 But fun.
48 Like REALLY fun.
49
50 I just went back into the bathroom to straighten my tie.
51
52 I am quite the dandy.
53 I looked back at myself and whistled some tune or other.
54 Wish me luck.
55 I'm goin' into my last week teaching. It's all Finals after that.
56 And then freedom.
57 Gottago.
58 See you again.
59 Peace.
2 I'm pretty happy about stuff these days.
3 I watched a doc about Spencer Tracy, with Katharine Hepburn reporting. It was called The Spencer Tracy Legacy featuring Katharine Hepburn narrating.
4 It doesn't get any better than this.
5 My trouble is trying to report it while cooking, cleaning, and smudging my reading glasses.
6 So it goes. It begins with Inherit the Wind.
7 It included interviews with Frank Sinatra, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Widmark, and many others big leaguers, all of whom were knocked out about his ability to play everything with truth and passion.
8 Sinatra would hang above the set and watch Tracy work.
9 Joan Bennet said that if he had to do something in more than one take, that it was a waste of his time.
10 It was entertaining, relaxing and an excellent way to enjoy a Sunday night.
11 With all the stresses stacking up, this was the way to calm it.
12 So happy Monday.
13 Moving On, Part One: Speaking of Elizabeth Taylor, I officially begin The Taming of the Shrew today.
14 Friday rocked. Because of field trips and AP tests, my classes were split, and I had to double teach all week. I had to repeat the assignments for students who weren't in class, and I'll probably have to do a bit of that today.
15 I canceled a huge essay I was going to have to collect and grade tomorrow because it was nearly impossible to get all the info about formatting and all to the students.
16
17 Gee, that's too bad. No papers to grade darn.
18 The notes they took on my Simon and Garfunkel mini-unit can be used on their Final, which is also an essay.
19 On Friday they had a choice to work on Final's notes or help me strip the room, removing everything from the walls and taking anything they wanted home.
20
21 My classroom vanished. They helped move stuff to the English Office, and I threw away a ton of workshop/miracle cures that have come down the pike, complete binders of nonsense I never used.
22 Anything I thought was worthwhile I placed neatly in the English Office. I'm donating class sets of Shakespeare plays to them also. I bought five sets of different shows: Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Julius Caesar, Much Ado About Nothing, and The Taming of the Shrew.
23 Heavy hitters, in mint condition.
24 All of the Renaissance masks came down as well, and many students got sad. I got sad too, but not THAT sad. It breaks my heart to see them sighing, but when I go, I want to go.
25 They return textbooks today then it is Shrew, the classic Zeffirelli version, with all its goofiness, and with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton duking it out.
26 I will provide color commentary on a microphone.
27 Should be lots of laughs.
28 Moving On, Part Two: Headline in this morning's Merc: David Letterman 'THAT'S OUR SHOW'
29 Great pic of Letterman getting ready for the show, with a mirror shot of him fixing his tie and whistling.
30 <sidebar> Doesn't he know that whistling in a dressing room is bad luck to Theatre sorts?
31 His hair wasn't combed, so I was doing the same exact thing this morning when I saw the picture.
32 His last show airs this Wednesday after 33 years as a late-night host.
33 I have always loved Letterman and when younger, would often stay up after writing this nonsense and watch his stuff and STILL get to work on time.
34
35 Gone are the days, although I will probably be recording these last few shows.
36 Moving On, Part the Thoid:
37 What did you think I'd actually stay up and watch them live?
38 I might. I might. Thursday's lesson plan is the same as Monday's.
39 And I'm almost packed up and out of there. The grades will be worked on during the film, so I can fine-tune all that. We have the dreadful Sign-Out Sheet and Grade Packets to turn in even though the grades are online.
40 The Sign-Out Sheet is always hectic because inevitably I miss one of the ten or so people you have to get signatures from: the school bank, the library, the Sign-Out Sheet lady, etc.
41 When I submitted my first semester grades, I was that a different process seemed to be in place, so I rolled with it, pushed the new "submit" button, double checked, triple checked and was STILL told that my grades didn't get to where they were supposed to go.
42 I didn't get mad, because I figured I couldn't have been the only person. It was just an hour I didn't have.
43 Last year I was told that they didn't get my packet of grades, so I did them over, and THEN it turned out they DID have them. I laughed.
44 Fortunately at a large school, those things happen, and we have a pretty gracious staff.
45 I'm just SO eager to get out it's almost shameful.
46
47 But fun.
48 Like REALLY fun.
49
50 I just went back into the bathroom to straighten my tie.
51
52 I am quite the dandy.
53 I looked back at myself and whistled some tune or other.
54 Wish me luck.
55 I'm goin' into my last week teaching. It's all Finals after that.
56 And then freedom.
57 Gottago.
58 See you again.
59 Peace.
~H~
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