An old familiar tune.....play it loudly.

I'm all alone in my classroom, thank the good Lord.

I love the cacophony of silence. But, I'm thinking of hooking up the speakers to the computer and playing my itunes playlist nonstop for the next hour; I'm what ya call a Maverick.

It's amazing how the old skills come back, and so quickly. Connecting with a classroom of people who, for the most part, would rather not be there, was a constant challenge, but one I dearly loved. If I could just hook them once, I would always have them; in this case, I'm not a catch and release kind of fella.

Hooked them early this morning; they were mine for the taking. And then my co-facilitator began to speak.

Lost them again. And THEN it became a game of catch them, lose them, catch them, lose them.....which is not so much catch and release as it is "catch them and then the m*********ker dumps them out of the boat......!

I miss this life a little. I was pretty good at it.

The other day, one of my associates said to me, "You're a good teacher."

I blushed, and hemmed and hawed a bit, and then said,
"You should see me act."

It always comes back to this, doesn't it?

Gloriously, I have a few consecutive days off coming up, and I think I will fill them with a big heaping pile of nothin'. I'm a adult, and I earned it, and I deserve it, so pththththththth!

Love to you.