Leap Day
I didn’t propose to a soul.
Bummer.
Someday I’d like to take advantage of the Sadie Hawkin’s thing, before I die.
I’m still really tired and had absolutely no energy at rehearsal tonight. I was snoozy and downright bored. I think it might have been a decent rehearsal had I not been so tired. She wasn’t beating the two songs into the ground. We actually sang other repertoire.
I was just too tired to care.
I need a vacation from my vacation.
I told some of my kids about Sadie Hawkin’s Day and what it meant and I thought the boys were going to die. One of the girls started teasing one of the boys and he told her to "Talk to the hand". It was so funny.
Sometimes these kids are such little kids, and at other times they are so sophisticated.
They still haven’t found the guy who broke into the apartment on Saturday night. There was a small article in the paper, but they hadn’t made any progress.
I’m going to cut out the article and send it to my landlord along with this month’s rent. They damn well better do something about fixing the fire escape ladder!
The shooting of the little first grade girl by the little boy has left me horrified. I know things have gotten really bad in this country as far as kids and gun violence is concerned, but this is just too much to fathom.
I can’t imagine a little boy in first grade being capable of doing something like this. As a teacher all I keep thinking that this child must have a horrible homelife if he is able to bring a gun from home. And a stolen gun to boot.
It makes me sad.
Children can’t even be children anymore. I wish we could go back to the time when I was a kid and all we played was kick ball and with our Barbies. The scariest shows on television were Lost in Space or Batman, or maybe Dark shadows and the Twilight Zone.
Kids deserve to have that kind of chance to be innocent.
Listening to:
Reading: The Pilot’s Wife Anita Shreve
Weather: 40, rainy
Trivia: What sport has a scrum?
In rugby football, the term scrum refers to a packed formation of opposing forwards who, heads down, lock themselves against each other when the referee has halted play for a minor infraction. No more than three may be in the front line of this formation. A player from the opposite team, the "scrum half," then puts the ball into the tunnel midway between these opposing forwards. At his point the "hooker," the center man in the front row, is primarily responsible for obtaining the ball for his side and then, with the others, heeling the ball backward, out of the scrum to the awaiting scrum half. The side losing possession of the ball tries to push its opponents off the ball and then breaks up quickly to minimize the advantage gained by the opposing backs. Rugby itself is football game played with an oval ball by two teams of 15 players each. It's different from soccer in that players may use their hands and catch, throw, or run with the ball in addition to maneuvering it with their feet as well as in the use of the scrum. Although the ball may be kicked or carried or passed from player to player by hand or foot, it may not be passed forward as in American football. Players running with the ball are, however, subject to being tackled. This occurs when, depending on the form of rugby being played, the player with the ball is held and brought to the ground; or the ball touches the ground; or he is unable to free himself without delay. Scoring in rugby is achieved by touching the ball down in the opponents' goal area behind their goal line (called a try) and by kicking the ball over the crossbar between the opponents' goalposts (a goal). It's simple enough to say that rugby is some form of bizarre amalgamation of soccer and football, but rugby players may feel otherwise. Rugby is also played with a minimum of protective equipment, in spite of being a contact sport, causing claims by rugby players that they're tougher than football players. But football players may feel otherwise.
Cool word: tenterhooks [n. TEN-ter-huks]
Tenterhooks were sharp hooked nails attached to a wood frame called a tenter which was used, during the 15th century, to stretch and dry lengths of cloth. There aren't many tenterhooks around today, but people will still describe themselves as being "on tenterhooks." Example, "I was kept on tenterhooks all morning, until they told me I was being promoted." The expression, referring to a state of uneasiness or suspense, has been in use since the 16th century. While it is unlikely anyone was ever literally put on tenterhooks, the feeling of strain is captured in the Latin word tendere (stretch) from which the word tenter is derived.
Tendere is also the root for words such as:
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