my life in paragraph form

last week was weird. first we had a wind storm on sunday which knocked out power to half the county for four days. meaning that we didn't have school on monday or tuesday, which completely messed up all my lesson plans (booo). also, it meant that the rotc trip i was supposed to chaperone got postponed to the end of may. i was really disappointed, because i was looking forward to it and i didn't want to teach for those three days.

then there was the whole virginia tech thing. fortunately, mary is ok (along with all the other people i know at tech). that guy shot the first two people in her dorm, but fortunately her eight o'clock class was cancelled, so she was still in bed when he was going through the halls. then, once the shootings happened, they put her whole building on lockdown, so by the time he started the second round, she was already hunkered down in her dorm room with the door locked and listening to a police scanner. she woke me up freaking out over the phone about people getting shot. i guess that was better than the alternative: turning on the t.v., seeing that 33 people were dead, and having no clue where she was. (hence it was my main duty to spend the morning tracking down my grandmother, so she would have a heart attack when she turned on the radio.)

i was sad about everything, but it didn't really hit me until late that night when i actually thought about the fact that she could have been killed. then i kind of freaked out. and i really got sad when she started talking about they guy she knew who was killed. he had been in the marching band with her, and that really hit close to home.

other than that, my life has been consumed with the play i'm working on. it opens on friday, and we really, really aren't ready. i got spoiled by theatre at college, with how good we were. i feel like i'm in culture shock now. people don't know what they're doing, sometimes they show up, they don't fit the roles, etc. it can work to my advantage though. i don't think the costumes are any good (due to the fact that i had a grand total of $100 for a show with numbers from 22 different musicals, 85% of which are period shows), but everybody else thinks they are amazing.

and as i write this, my classroom is being invaded by sixty driver's ed kids and their extremely annoyed teacher. so i think it's time to go.