A LITTLE LOUDER..........

Oh my God! I'm in the faculty stepshow, it's next Friday and going to be pure comedy because we get to put on a skit at the beginning. i can't wait! I said I wanted to do the shout out at the beginning and they said I sounded country... Hello! I didn't.. Mabye I did... A LITTLE LOUUUDDDDERRR.
Had my observation today. Thank God it was first period and not third or fifth....or 6th. Second is too quiet and 5th is obnoxiously lovingly loud... and 6th forget it, almost 40 kids.. the counselors are out to lunch... I guess on this one!

Have to turn in my resignation and finish my online interview with Nashville, take 6 portraits this month... It's going by so fast. I LOVE IT!
Glad the observation thing is over.. always wants to make me pop a pill or three... on that note.. I'm one of the only teachers NOT on prescription drugs... I found this out at lunch over a FAT margarita one day.
Does American Idol suck this season or what??? Amazing Race is hysterical... and The Apprentice I watch cause there's a Baylor Girl on there. Sic em...

until next time,
A LITTLE LOUDER

Spring is Here and We've Got to sell this House

I'm telling you.... We're so excited about moving to Nashville! but not so excited about OUR REALTOR who let our house expire... we have a new one, Keller Williams, and are having an open house this weekend. My kids are so funny... we did an assignment on Women in History today and they were talking about "The Color Purple". I started quoting "Sophia" "alls my life i håd to fight"
after they stopped laughing hysterically Rosalyn asked me to say something from "Beloved", a scary as hell movie that I didn't know any lines from. Although I love Toni Morrison don't get me wrong. i love to shock my kids, they think because I'm white, that I must've voted for Bush, and I couldn't possible sing the song from "Hustle and Flow" which I did sing the other day while rehearsing for UIL (sorry, but it's on the radio, right?) I mean, it was nominated for an Oscar... and NOW "the color purple", yesterday one of my students asked me if I was mixed, I take it as a compliment ALTHOUGH I think it's because I have a big butt! I've been told I had a sister booty before, by my students.... they hold nothing back, let me tell you!!! HAHAH! I'm proud of my butt! How did I get here from my story about the realtor....so me... now to run off this butt... I must go to the gym....yuck because it's SOOOO HOT right now! and I really need to rehang some of the photos and readjust my furniture so those with no imagination WILL LOVE THIS HOUSE. which is SO cute by the wåy! It's a cottage. that would probably cost 500,000 in L.A. but you can have it here in Ft. Worth for a mere 90,000 bucks! POWER OF POSITIVE THINKING!

Baby Face

How cute is this!!!!!???? She is an angel! Took this for a friend. What a subject.
It's almost spring break and I am thrilled! Heading to Nashville for the week, getting a job while I'm there. So much going on....school...I'm fasting during the day now... it's crazy hard, but seems to be working! It's not like I'm a Muslim, but my friends are and I'm adopting the "find yourself through fasting" for 30 days, holiday. Ramadan....is that the one? It takes such discipline. It really does make you examine who you are, instead of masking it with that vat of macaroni and cheese, which is what I like to do... Hmmm... wonder when people are going to come from miles around to examine my blog. I love reading others... one's like a soap for me. I'm hooked. It feels rather voyeristic. eavesdropping on people's lives...hence the memoir, the blog. I'm reading "In Cold Blood", no connection to anything I'm talking about but I do want to see Capote and I just ran across the book in some dark corner of the library while I was there with my ESL reading class. Someone said "Is there a book on diseases?"" Anything to get them to read... I'm like "sure over here, and then I spotted it." It's fascinating really. And even more bizarre is how the town is practically a shrine to the murders. I talk like I won't drive through there myself the next time I'm in Kansas. My mother -in-law is from an area close... It's devastating what happened to that family. And I don't even know why yet, I'm on page 100.
I can't put it down. Capote was a great writer.

Well.......

I'm watching Flight 93 and it's devasating all over again, and today my kids at school and I talked all about Capital Punishment and the coversation led to all kinds of depressing things. I still can't wrap my mind around September 11th. I just feel beyond sad about it. On a happier note, Caucasian Chalk Circle is in full swing... not that it's any less of an emotional rolercoaster... of course it's pretend, but it's seems my nervous system doesn't know the difference... Sorry to be SOOOO depressing today and after not writing in well over a month! I will put up a happy picture....that will make me feel better.. well a little melancholy. Love
Robin

School's Out

What year is it? 1977... I don't know because the last time we were out for a snow or ice day I was wearing a really bad pantsuit and brown suede shoes from Myers Department store. Fort Worth has shut down and it's only just 22 degrees... No snow though. We don't have that anymore. When I was a kid, we would be off for weeks at a time, and I can remember shoveling snow away from the backdoor. That's right folks, in Texas. We made snow icecream, and put puzzles together at the dining room table and baked cookies. Cut to 2005... I haven't washed my hair in three days... let me upload a picture of that... I'm drinking coffee and procrastinating about cleaning out my closet, because we're selling our house and we HAVE to make these 1950's closet's look spacious...not going to happen. I'm a straightener... my closet's are never really pretty, because I'm always shoving some box or bag of garage sale items in there. Now my cleaning supply closet.... you could write an article for O magazine about that one. It's looking good. Lord... I've had to lock my dogs in the bathroom because of this whole "shiningesque" cabin fever thing we're dealing with today. They follow me from room to room ro room because they cannot stay outside in this weather. Daisy, the golden lab, has already gained 30 pounds in 3 days due to eating out of boredom. I'm supposed to do three portrait shoots this weekend,and I've already put some of them off, I'm going to be hardcore this time.... you know how they always shoot bikini fashion shoots in the dead of winter for some reason, and the model is getting serious hypothermia, well, I've got this giant feaux fur coat, I'm just going to throw over my people. Beauty is pain, people, suck it up.....

When Harry Met Sally

God! I love this movie..... I'm watching it now, because I'm tired of watching the newspeople standing on the overpasses covered with ice. I watch this movie and I think about 1989 and what was happening then, and boy am I glad that now is now. I also watch this movie and I am transported back to when I lived in New York in the mid-90's. What a backdrop in which to live your life. This movie is so Woody Allen without being SOOOOOOOO cerebral.. Billy was such a leading man in this film... so sexy... Classic!

Merry Saturday

It's officially Christmas... I stood in line at Garden Ridge for an hour trying to get the fake poinsettia for my photo shoot today. The world descended on the place like it was Disney World mid-July. How cute is this mini-Liza Minelli... She really has those eyes...think early Liza, not that scary David what's his name period...

Anytime now.....

You know what... it's late and I've taken a mental health day from school tomorrow. This is my first post and it's not going to be real exciting at 1:54 am. But I'm addicted, what can I say? How do I do the picture thing... must figure that out. I picked my lovely template because it halfway represents my alma mater with it's perky green, Baylor University. That's right... the fundamentalist Baptists, Ladies and Gentlemen. Wouldn't have it any other way. It was like a church camp people. A nice safe academic bubble complete with horny frat boys and trashcan punch. My nephew's there now....shhhh... I don't want my sister-in-law to hear this. I HIGHLY recommended he go there. Basically, I wouldn't take no for an answer.