Work

I was not going to post today. However I was inspired by a few friends who I have not heard from in a while ;) I have been quite busy lately, that does seem to be everyone's story. I was at work until 8:30 for the last two nights. We had a Parent Music Association meeting at my school and then I had a night rehearsal for an upcoming contest. It is hard when you feel like your whole day was eaten by work even if you love what you do.

So my night rehearsal last night was a mixed bag. It was an 1 1/2 hours long and it some ways it flew by. I made the mother of all lesson plans to prepare for it. I had the other band director and my principal, a former band director, act as mock judges at our rehearsal during the school day. I also recorded our run through for analasis. So between the comments and the recording I came up with five pages of corrections! We certainly did not get through them all, but we did start making some nice headway. On the flipside my group this year has maturity issues so anything that is different or special they have trouble handling and I had a ton of chatty cathy's last night. I was exhausted when it was over. We have our big contest this Saturday and then our concert next Thursday, April 26th. You are all more than welcome to come. My mom was not interested in coming until I told her I have a trash can ensemble playing. She is one weird cookie. I never know what she will like.