Baching it

Harriet flies east on Thursday for one of her periodic trips to visit with a son, a grandkid, a sister, and other relatives in D.C., New England and Virginia. So Sketch and I will be baching it for a couple weeks. I'll try not to overload on junk food while she's gone.

I looked through the musical (the book) and don't see any changes I want to make. Rather, if this thing ever gets done locally, I'd like to sit in on early rehearsals and see how it plays and maybe make changes then. I tried to write a book/story that leads from song to song, which is where the real emphasis is.

Piano lessons finally start up again on Friday. I'm ready! This should be a good term, each term getting more challenging. I'm taking the summer term as well. Then in the fall, continuing and adding a Music Theory class.

Show "Frankenweenie" today and then we discuss beginning-middle-end story telling, using it and "Casablanca" as our examples. Thursday I do my format/rhetoric lecture -- and then they're ready to start writing. Spring class is usually a pretty good one.

I have an unusually high number of continuing students this term ... half a dozen. Usually it's only two or three.

Should be getting info on fall schedule soon. I'm going to sign up. Not ready to retire from teaching yet. Still fun.