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Yoga, Practice, Show Apartment, Rehearsal - "Free" Improv, that is planned:)!

I am filling up my life with things that are adult and that I enjoy. I frankly believe that people who spend too much time obsessing about children are not balanced. Some of them aren't even well!

Case in point - I taught at an independent school and at lunch all they talked about were the kids. When the kids leave the room, I want to talk about something - anything - else. It is like a yoga posture, you do it, you forget it, you do Savasana, and you move on. Yes, there should be planning but is obsessing planning? I think not.

Parents would die if they heard how many teachers will speak ill of them because their child did not do their homework. Well, maybe these parents aren't doing the child's homework and teaching them to take responsibility. Or maybe they are just not making sure the kid puts it into their backpack. Whatever. It's time for lunch and who wants to eat those words?

The lunch hour arrives and I would pull out my iPod, put on something interesting through speakers I purchased to travel with, and sit there hoping someody might discuss something else - like the music. I should have just put my fingers in my ears and sung Yankee Doodle.

Well, I am not complaining anymore because I no longer teach at a "school school". I have not even 5 minutes a week to endure this waste of time practice that is usually called a faculty meeting. At one school where I taught, I volunteered to take notes at the weekly faculty meeting. This was to keep me awake. We discussed the same stuff over and over again. It got to the point where I wrote "we talked about the balls at recess again". There was NEVER resolution to anything.

I once taught a man a few piano lessons. His daughters studied with me and he played Rock piano. He wanted to learn chords, he needed suggestions for his band, and such. He was a very successful marketing person and he said if you talk about the same things over and over at any place in the meetings that is a sign that it is a dysfunctional place. I like that. I have one faculty meeting per year at The Lucy Moses School and we get paid to attend - and we get food and drinks. Now THAT is a good meeting.

Tomorroa AM BIkram Yoga - why do I do this so much? Habit, exercise, physical growth - not getting bigger but opening up parts of my body, belonging to a community that is not musicians - though if I keep getting students maybe they all will be, and it is great for your skin - like a sauna/facial/ sometimes like a steam room - when it is humid.

I am interviewing 3 apartment candidates tomorrow. I forget what I mention - this is free form writing at this point. My current roommate has 2 small dogs and I have 1 big dog and there have been fights and so I am not renewing her sublet with me.

Then, the guitar player and I are practicing our planned "free" improv. We plan to record. Not sure if I can post anything here - used to be able to but technology is really just another word for incompatibility.

Looking forward to what is happening today - well, it is nearly 2 AM so technically it is today , though in 5 hours I will be nearly leaving for yoga already. In sleep terms it is tomorrow.

Goodnight!