A Proud Fan.

Please note my newest blog favorite to discover of what.  Ariane and I watched episode 4 tonight.  So good!  There was a TAT-getting on this one.  One vice: there are far (far, FAR!) too many outbursts of song on this episode.  A capella, guitar, improvised, alcohol and/or love induced-- enough to make me curl up and walk right out of the room.  I really can't watch these people's faces when they sing badly.  It's really horrifying to me.

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I spent another day in Jordan today.  Yesterday I attacked the filing cabinet and all the curriculum materials to get thinking, and then today I started in on the actual organization of costumes, materials, and instruments.  Mostly, there is just SO MUCH of everything; posters, games, hats/wigs, textbooks, on and on.

The tally of totally misused and abused instruments is as follows:
1 flute
3 (2 real, 1 plastic) clarinets
2 (1 real, 1 plastic) alto saxophones
1 tenor saxophone
1 trumpet
1 cornet
2 trombones
174 jingle bells
3009 recorders

Other findings of note...
Coconut bra
An actually awesome cartoon of Beethoven wearing headphones
"Meet Osmo" promo video from the Minnesota Orchestra.  Hm...
A sheet of classroom rules that includes # 20. No sitting in the closet to do worksheets and #21. Football.

I'm starting to look at colors for the room.  The office walls are bright blue, Ms. DeCorsey's office has been bubble gum pink and is now red and royal blue- I'm thinking she meant it when she said "make it your own!"  I hope that I can have the walls painted and carpet cleaned by the time I get back from India.  As far as Jordan Ace Hardware color goes, "Crippled Creek" is a peacock blue winner.  With a corresponding, slightly lighter color for the accent walls.  Perhaps "Brighton Beach" or "Over the Rainbow."  Fun job idea: writing color names for Benjamin Moore.  For teachers out there thinking about painting their room, at least look at this, this, or this before assuming that yellow makes for cheery 3rd graders.  For devine colors, look on.

I'm looking for a blue...

And this is my color family...             

Off to read the beautiful A Fine Balance.  This novel has it all, and is totally teasing me as an English major: Mistry uses crazy symmetry, understatement/minimalism, yet 500 pages, beautiful symbolism, messages about society that I can't quite come to terms with yet.  I need to chat with someone about this, really.