February 19, 2013

 Today feels like one of those days where I had stuff to write about but failed to write it down and have since forgotten it. I always say I am going to work on it but I have apparently not gotten around to it yet.

The teachers favorite topic of conversation today was the possibility of a snow day on Thursday. Teachers love snow days. Way more than kids. And I can understand that. I like them but I would like them more if I was still getting paid for the missed day. But I have very few personal hours and I already wasted some of them on the last snow day. So I won't be doing that again.

My day at work was mostly spent working on the individual schedules for the people who will be testing kids out of the computer lab during the state assessment. I think I got all but one or two of them done so that was fairly productive.

While I worked on that I listened to a few episodes of Brian Posehn's podcast Nerd Poker, which consists of him and his friends playing Dungeons & Dragons. I like Posehn but I mainly wanted to listen to the podcast because Mr. Sark from Machinima Respawn is the Dungeon Master. I have always been interested in D&D but have never played. I don't know that I would want to play but I think it would be fun to sit in on a game just for the entertainment of it.

Other stuff happened at work but I am going to skip that stuff because I can't really think of anything worth mentioning. And I want to go to sleep.

My friend went to a movie this weekend and she mentioned possibly hanging out tonight. Then she got asked to stage manage a lecture by a playwright, Pulitzer Prize winner Suzan Lori-Parks. So she invited me to that. I had never heard of the lady before but it ended up being a really good lecture. It was basically an inspirational kind of thing with tips for success using examples from her own life. She was really funny and including the Q&A afterward, it lasted two hours, which flew by. My favorite part was her story behind one of her plays. She was sitting in a canoe talking with her friend and one of her random ideas was that she wanted to make a riff on The Scarlet Letter and call it Fucking A. That play ended up becoming a companion piece to another play she wrote first, and much different than she originally planned, but she still used the title, which is great. My favorite one-liner from the lecture was “Being an artist isn't about being cool, it's about being.” Deep stuff.

And on that note, I'm going to bed. I've been tired for the past hour and I need my rest.