Week Summary

I spent most of the week at TCU getting trained to teach AP Music Theory next year. It was a really great course - I've heard nothing but great things about all of the AP programs at TCU. I'm really getting excited about getting to teach the class in the Fall.

While I was there I got to catch up with Colby and Joanna Brownlee. It was so good to see their faces again - both are doing well and working hard! I also got to catch up with my high school classmate Chris Surley. We met up at the Gingerman where I got to join is friends who team up to play Trivia every Thursday night! Not wanting to let me down, we all put our heads together and came out on top! Every team gets to name themselves for the evening and the names were almost all commenting (mostly inappropriate) on the celebrity deaths of the day. Even though we won the night, I think "The autopsy will confirm whether he was black or white", and "Way to steal Farrah's thunder, you jack***" won the biggest laughs when announced. I also was acquainted with Firemans #4 - eh - interesting for all you ale connoisseurs.

Saturday I got to go out to a friend's lake house on Lake Cypress Springs. We went tubing and water skiing and got to enjoy a very hot but very fun day.

Today was a very lazy day. Watermark was packed this morning. I went to lunch with Ben Jones and we ate at Five Guys burgers. If it's good enough for Obama and his staff - it's good enough for me!

Five things that will make this a great week:

1) Try something you've always wanted to do/eat and never have
2) Pull out one of your favorite books from when you were a kid and read it again
3) Make a list of 3 people you haven't talked to in far to long and set aside time for each
4) Start researching your next vacation - even if you can't get it soon - doesn't it help to think about it?
5) Get up just before sunrise and sit on the patio with a cup of coffee or tea and just take it all in.

I hope I find myself on some of your lists to call... I would love to hear from you!

SDG.

Taking a hiatus

So, it appears that my blog commitment is taking a hiatus just as it was beginning. I'm leaving until Friday and won't be updating my blog while I'm gone. Enjoy the week and I promise myself that I'll update Friday or Saturday!

When a teacher tells you to, you better do it!

So... I was advised that my blog needed to be updated so here goes.

I have a confession to make: I am addicted to the F word. Yep. You heard me.

Gordon Ramsay's "the F word" on BBC America, isn't that what you were thinking? I think it's because it serves so many of my loves - good food, adventure, interesting information, living sustainably, competition, and a very hilarious candid-ness that can only come from a culture less interested in coddling people's egos than America. If you get the chance to see what I'm talking about, check it out at 4pm on BBCA and let me know if you agree.

Although admittedly far to much of my early summer has been spent in front of the tube, I have managed to be productive in some ways. I'm still playing ultimate frisbee on Tuesday evenings. Now, for those of you who think are currently giggling and think that ultimate isn't a sport you can check out this video for starters:

Ultimate Frisbee Highlights (youtube)

or you can come up and cheer us on for a couple of hours on Tuesday.

I also have tried to go 30 minutes of non-emasculating yoga a day - I think if it's on Wii Fit I think it becomes less effeminate and more nerdy. I think I'll take that trade.

I picked up the español rosetta stone this this week. So far it seems like a great program and I'll update you on my progress.

Finally, I averaged a 58 on a couple rounds of golf today. Well, this me averaged a 58 -->

I think I look pretty striking with orange hair, yes? Tiger Woods 2010. The only problem with letting a game system in your apartment is that you can play games on it.

Anyway - all next week I have class 8:30-4:30 to get AP Music Theory competent. I guess that'll make up for all the time I wasted on the couch this week. If you're around TCU and don't have anything to do in the evenings just let me know!

Sidenote: You should ask JR and Chels about some fleas and a mohawk and maybe ask for a picture.

Finally - I found a list of summer things to do I made a couple years ago. Here's 5 for you to do this week:

1) Have a picnic and feed ducks at a park
2) Read all night and sleep all day
3) Go to the local farmers market (yay Chels!)
4) Visit a used bookstore
5) Have a cookout

Do this and you too shall lead a happy and prosperous life... provided you send this to 5 new people in the next 5 minutes! (Isn't that how it goes?!)