AWKWARD ZOMBIE

Today has been pretty mildly annoying. Went to work today and my boss was in a bad mood. I went to the back room, and my coworker had just gotten done cutting some rib-eye steak, so I offered to clean the cutting board while he filled out his orders, and as soon as I got done cleaning it, my boss walked back there and it looked like I wasn't doing anything so he got onto me even though I was about to go to the front and do stuff.

Then when I got home, the electricity went out, which sucked. Since there wasn't anything better to do, I went with my sister, my cousin, and a friend of mine to walmart because my sister and cousin needed to pick up a few things for their prom. When we got there, we ran into one of my other cousins and bodaciously as soon as we walked up to her to say hi, her boyfriend started just twitching kind of violently every few seconds. I had never met this guy before, so I didn't know what was up and I kinda thought he was just messing with us so I chuckled a little and then he just dropped to the ground and had a seizure. That was pretty freaky. The cousin that went with us said that the guy smokes synthetic marijuana a lot so we think that's what caused it.

All in all, it's just been a fairly crappy day.

I'm a dumbass and spent an hour doing a transposition project in the wrong clef. By hand, imitating common music typography.

I've been lethargic and feeling down the past couple of days. The little things are getting to me.

I've been gradually finding out that the supervising teacher I was signed up to work with in fall and winter is a complete flake to anyone over the age of 10 (it took him a month and a half to respond to an email, which should have been an early warning sign, I suppose), and he focuses almost exclusively on practicing pop-style music, with minimal academic focus.

This isn't to say that pop styles have no place in a music curriculum, but he apparently doesn't bother to work much on reading or actual pitch training or playing/singing skills, or the basic elements of theory like form (verse, chorus, verse, chorus, or ABCB) and expression. My current supervising teacher, who works with the middle and high schoolers, says that he always dreads the kids that come from this guy's elementary classes, because he ends up having to basically start from nothing with those kids, while the ones from the other elementary school consistently come in either at or ahead of grade level. And when the two schools are jumbled into the same class, half of them end up struggling and being frustrated, while the other half are bored out of their minds because they are having to repeat all the "baby music" they played through as 5th graders.

So everyone and their grandmother started trying to convince me to switch to the lady at the other elementary school, because she's known for being awesome and getting a good balance of pop exploration and academic music content, as well as physical coordination in playing/singing skills. However, in fall, I do a small amount of observation hours, and then in winter, I student teach full time. She is on maternity leave for a significant portion of fall, meaning I can't do my fall quarter with her, which would make it really awkward to just jump full time into her classroom during the winter (there are always classroom culture things that no one really thinks about until the situation comes up, and I don't want to confuse any students with differing expectations because I haven't had time to learn the lady's classroom style.)

And now I'm worried that I'm going to butt heads with the guy I'm assigned to, because I'm going to want to fit more academic stuff in, even with the K-3 levels. Like for fuck's sake, even basic pitch matching and rhythm reading would be good things to work on to get them not as far behind when they're in 6th grade at the middle school.

Guess who can't sleep?

That's right, it's THIS GUY!

Mom found I have friends I met online and she looks about ready to explode.

Even though she made friends of her own online years ago.

I really enjoy being 23 and treated like I'm 10.

There's a new person in my RP group that acts like a edgy little kid. Serious godmodding.

I have to go to Montreal next Monday for a formation thing for my job. Thankfully two other new employees who also have to go agreed to take me with them so I won't have to drive (I would die if I actually had to drive in Montreal), but we'll have to leave at 6AM to maybe get there in time for 8AM because Montreal is the Worst and the people behind the formation didn't take that into account, so I'll have to wake up at 5:15AM tops and I won't be back home until 6PM at the very least. Also since the people in Montreal are needlessly uptight and superficial so I'll have to go shopping for formal clothes including a fucking tie and I'm dying inside. There go my plans for the weekend I guess.

I was using an electric clipper to trim my facial hair to something much easier to shave, when I got a bit of skin on my neck pinched by the blades. A little later, a piece from my mustache flew up into my eye.

If I had the means, I'd post a video depicting an overdramatic reenactment, showing someone looking like Ron Burgundy trimming his mustache, and half of the obviously fake mustache flying straight up into his eye, causing an ER visit or something.

But I don't have the means, so you can use your imagination, instead.

Mom woke me up after I managed to sleep for two hours. I failed at trying to fall back to sleep for the past five hours, so I guess this is how my day is going to be.

nothing feels better than people saying they'll do something with you, but you can tell they aren't as into it as you are, so when they don't remember to do it you don't remind them because you feel shitty because you would be making them do something they don't wanna do

so then you just. don't get to do the thing because doing it alone isn't fun or gives you hella anxiety

Apparently my grandma is staying in my house for 5 days starting tomorrow. And then she'll come back less than a week after she leaves for another 5 days.


but y tho

Fishing trip postponed due to rain. Honestly I don't mind much because A) it forced me to take a day off work which I desperately need and 2) I've got crap sprouting from my face and I don't want Grandma to see me like this.

All my Witcher 2 savegames are gone and Steam, instead of doing the sensible thing and downloading the saved games from the cloud, deleted them too it seems. All I did was install the official 3.4 patch from CD Projekt Red because someone said that might be the reason some of my proletariats didn't work.
Thank god I was still in the first chapter.

I gotta stop going on Imgur, the people there might actually give me cancer one of these days.