Last night, we went to Buca de Beppo for Deb's 30th Birthday. Happy Belated Birthday Deb! (even though it wouldn't really be late since I was there and said so on your birthday, but in case you wanted to be wished h. b-day again, there you go). The food was great. It was fun to go out with friends. The service was not the fastest, but all in all it was a lot of fun.
The sad news is that the Twins lost tonight. Althought, my husband (and probably many many others) predicted that they would lose because they didn't have home field advantage. I'm sad about it now. I was hoping for the best for the team. Sonny says it wouldn't have mattered. He, again with many others, believe that the Twins wouldn't have made it far if they had won, and neither will the Sox. I guess that means I will be rooting for the Rays this weekend.
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Monday, September 29, 2008
Twins Game
So, a guy from Sonny's work happened to have tickets to the last game of the Twins/White Sox Series. And for whatever reason, a week or so before the game, he offered the tickets to Sonny because he couldn't go. Sonny, of course, gobbled them up and we went to the game. And on Wednesday night, at the end of the second game of the series, we realized how big the Thursday night game was going to be.
We made sure to wear Twins gear. We had been to three games earlier in the year and every time we went, the Twins lost. We almost thought that we shouldn't attend because of this trend. But we were hopeful that they were going to win. Also, if they did win, they would be a half game ahead of the White Sox in the division, and that would be awesome.
Well, the game did not have a very promising start. No score in the first, second, or third. Top of the 4th, the Sox scored 6 runs. It was at this point, I asked Sonny if we should leave. We weren't so hopeful anymore.
Twins scored two at the bottom of the fourth and from then on were consistent in averaging at least one run per inning. By the end of the 8th inning, they were tied, 6-all. At the end of the 9th inning the tie remained and we entered the 10th inning. The Sox made no progress in the 10th and the Twins managed to score therefore winning the game!!
(For those of you that already know all this, I apologize. But not all my friends follow baseball.)
It was awesome to be there!! We had awesome seats in the second row to the right of the foul line. It was so exciting in there!! I could hardly stand it!!
I did manage to hold onto my voice. People at work the next day were surprised I had a voice left. I'm a speech path. I know better than to scream my lungs out, for the most part.
And another crazy thing, besides the come from behind win was the fact that I ran into my ex, Phil, there. He happened to be in town taking a mini-vakay and we just happened to be at the same game in sections right next to each other. Crazy!
We made sure to wear Twins gear. We had been to three games earlier in the year and every time we went, the Twins lost. We almost thought that we shouldn't attend because of this trend. But we were hopeful that they were going to win. Also, if they did win, they would be a half game ahead of the White Sox in the division, and that would be awesome.
Well, the game did not have a very promising start. No score in the first, second, or third. Top of the 4th, the Sox scored 6 runs. It was at this point, I asked Sonny if we should leave. We weren't so hopeful anymore.
Twins scored two at the bottom of the fourth and from then on were consistent in averaging at least one run per inning. By the end of the 8th inning, they were tied, 6-all. At the end of the 9th inning the tie remained and we entered the 10th inning. The Sox made no progress in the 10th and the Twins managed to score therefore winning the game!!
(For those of you that already know all this, I apologize. But not all my friends follow baseball.)
It was awesome to be there!! We had awesome seats in the second row to the right of the foul line. It was so exciting in there!! I could hardly stand it!!
I did manage to hold onto my voice. People at work the next day were surprised I had a voice left. I'm a speech path. I know better than to scream my lungs out, for the most part.
And another crazy thing, besides the come from behind win was the fact that I ran into my ex, Phil, there. He happened to be in town taking a mini-vakay and we just happened to be at the same game in sections right next to each other. Crazy!
Thursday, September 25, 2008
More Videos that I forgot
I forgot to add a couple more of the YouTube videos that I like.
This one is a Velvet Underground song: I'm sticking with you. It's a funny little video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrgujzqSrRI
And after I added the other JibJab video, I thought I better add this one because it gets stuck in my head too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztj2qfui114
Enjoy!
This one is a Velvet Underground song: I'm sticking with you. It's a funny little video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrgujzqSrRI
And after I added the other JibJab video, I thought I better add this one because it gets stuck in my head too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztj2qfui114
Enjoy!
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
More YouTube
Lately, these are my favorite youtube videos.
Time for Some Campaigning (a JibJab video as seen on Jay Leno)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adc3MSS5Ydc
SNL Digital Short about Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (random, although it was better when it was actually on SNL so the picture moved)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmd8iS2895s
They Might Be Giants: Never go to work (from their Here Come the 123s DVD as seen on the Disney Channel)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3Kgj6EiZtw
The three of these seem to take turns playing through my head. But I think that my personal favorite is the TMBG song...because I like to think about having the option of never going to work. :)
Time for Some Campaigning (a JibJab video as seen on Jay Leno)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adc3MSS5Ydc
SNL Digital Short about Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (random, although it was better when it was actually on SNL so the picture moved)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmd8iS2895s
They Might Be Giants: Never go to work (from their Here Come the 123s DVD as seen on the Disney Channel)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3Kgj6EiZtw
The three of these seem to take turns playing through my head. But I think that my personal favorite is the TMBG song...because I like to think about having the option of never going to work. :)
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
I don't look good in tenure.
I know that there are a couple people that read this and don't like when I use it like a journal to vent. So, if you are one of those people, now would be a good time to go your email or some other site because this is a venting entry.
At the end of the last school year, I was working .6 in one building and .2 in another. The SEC (Special Ed. Coordinator) for the building that I worked .6 in asked me if I would return if they only had the .6 for me for this year. I knew that the family was using the insurance through my work and I also knew that I wouldn't qualify for that insurance if I worked less than .8, so my answer at the time was no.
As a result, I sat all summer waiting for the phone call that never came. (Last year, I got a phone call in mid-August to come back, but instead of 1.0 (or full time), it would be at a .8 (or four days a week). My husband and I kept an eye on the website and we left town for Vegas for our end of summer vakay and when we came back, that school's posting was gone. I called and found out that they had filled the position. I was SOL.
So I browsed the website some more and found my current position. Well, not actually. I found some positions in early childhood and I thought that they might be right up my alley because I have an child that age and I might 'get it' now and be a good choice for those positions. But again, those positions had been filled, and thusly, I ended up with the position I have now.
Now, granted I do have a full time job, and granted I am making pretty much double the paychecks I was making last year at this time. But it doesn't make up for the fact that if I have a job in the district again next year, I start over in my probationary period (well, not really because I have already done two years), but in terms of working towards tenure, I would.
Then I started thinking, "Aside from job security, what do I need tenure for?" It's just causing me headaches and making me sad that I screwed myself over in the tenure department and knowing that I won't be tenured, if I cared to be, for at least another 4 years. I mean, I get paid the same either way.
And then I thought, "What if I didn't care if I never became tenured?" And for the first time in like a month, I felt totally calm. My headache subsided momentarily and I realized that tenure is just a word. It doesn't define me or my abilities. It just locks me into a position. And at this point, I don't honestly know if that's something I would want or not...
Post Script: But just for the record, that doesn't mean that I probably won't continue to worry about this...it was just interesting to have this thought today.
At the end of the last school year, I was working .6 in one building and .2 in another. The SEC (Special Ed. Coordinator) for the building that I worked .6 in asked me if I would return if they only had the .6 for me for this year. I knew that the family was using the insurance through my work and I also knew that I wouldn't qualify for that insurance if I worked less than .8, so my answer at the time was no.
As a result, I sat all summer waiting for the phone call that never came. (Last year, I got a phone call in mid-August to come back, but instead of 1.0 (or full time), it would be at a .8 (or four days a week). My husband and I kept an eye on the website and we left town for Vegas for our end of summer vakay and when we came back, that school's posting was gone. I called and found out that they had filled the position. I was SOL.
So I browsed the website some more and found my current position. Well, not actually. I found some positions in early childhood and I thought that they might be right up my alley because I have an child that age and I might 'get it' now and be a good choice for those positions. But again, those positions had been filled, and thusly, I ended up with the position I have now.
Now, granted I do have a full time job, and granted I am making pretty much double the paychecks I was making last year at this time. But it doesn't make up for the fact that if I have a job in the district again next year, I start over in my probationary period (well, not really because I have already done two years), but in terms of working towards tenure, I would.
Then I started thinking, "Aside from job security, what do I need tenure for?" It's just causing me headaches and making me sad that I screwed myself over in the tenure department and knowing that I won't be tenured, if I cared to be, for at least another 4 years. I mean, I get paid the same either way.
And then I thought, "What if I didn't care if I never became tenured?" And for the first time in like a month, I felt totally calm. My headache subsided momentarily and I realized that tenure is just a word. It doesn't define me or my abilities. It just locks me into a position. And at this point, I don't honestly know if that's something I would want or not...
Post Script: But just for the record, that doesn't mean that I probably won't continue to worry about this...it was just interesting to have this thought today.
Friday, September 19, 2008
Mourning
So today was one of those icky days at work. It wasn't icky in the sense that the kids were bad or anything like that. It was more along the lines of the fact that I was talking with a teacher and we were discussing tenure. She believed that tenure was achieved after three consecutive years. I am crossing my fingers that is not the case because I am too old to start over next year.
So then on the way home I was listening to a CD and it had the song Mourning by Tantric on it and singing along to it made me feel a bit better. It made me remember the first time I heard it. I first heard the song back in February 2002 as I was sitting at Tabula, on the University of North Dakota campus, prepping for my NESPA (I think that was the name of the test). My friend Harmony and I decided to take a break from studying and she said I needed to listen to this song. She put the headphones on me, started the song and walked off to get something to drink.
As I listened, the words spoke to me, as songs tend to do for college-aged kids. I had recently been through a big break up and instantly liked the song. I don't remember that it made me sad. It just made me realize that things happen for a reason. So I guess listening to it today maybe created the same feeling: that things happen for a reason. Even though right now, I am blind as to what those reasons are when it comes to working in this district.
So then on the way home I was listening to a CD and it had the song Mourning by Tantric on it and singing along to it made me feel a bit better. It made me remember the first time I heard it. I first heard the song back in February 2002 as I was sitting at Tabula, on the University of North Dakota campus, prepping for my NESPA (I think that was the name of the test). My friend Harmony and I decided to take a break from studying and she said I needed to listen to this song. She put the headphones on me, started the song and walked off to get something to drink.
As I listened, the words spoke to me, as songs tend to do for college-aged kids. I had recently been through a big break up and instantly liked the song. I don't remember that it made me sad. It just made me realize that things happen for a reason. So I guess listening to it today maybe created the same feeling: that things happen for a reason. Even though right now, I am blind as to what those reasons are when it comes to working in this district.
Clarification
To clarify yesterday's entry: Sonny goes into Lukin's room at night, when Lukin can't sleep and starts to cry. He doesn't go into Lukin's room when he (Sonny) starts to cry. After I read the comment, and read the entry again, I could see the point and I laughed as well. Thanks TR2!
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