I've been lurking. Now that the holidays travels and parties are done...it's springtime. Which means not only is it musical performance time it's *^#%^@$*% standardized testing time, bless their little hearts.

Also, I took a chance on an at risk kid and it backfired. Bless his heart.

Had a fantastic time at the music educator's conference in San Antonio last week when I was mistaken for a colleague's former student by his current coworkers. Said colleague and I are same age. Made my day, bless his heart.

I've been finagling an instrument so that my daughter can audition for the Marine Band after all...She is still in the program but the jobs she wants just aren't opening up...so "mom can you get me a bassoon?" No problem! Bless her heart.

I've put off 30 hours of PD that I have to have done by Monday and have been late nighting for the past few days taking online tests over material on how to teach gifted and talented students in the general classroom. This has very little application in my world, and I could use these 30 hours to actually work on ...I dunno, maybe some FINE ARTS TRAINING??? Bless HISD's heart.

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