Everybody PANIC!

So, I'm about to go to bed tonight, and I flip over to the news station so that it will be on that channel when I crawl out of bed in the morning, only to happen upon the unbelievable.

Wichita has actually called off school tomorrow, and since we're following their lead, so has my gig.

Jeez... I can't believe it. A couple of inches of ice and everybody says STAY IN YOUR HOMES!! DON'T GO OUT!! AAARRGHHH!

First of all, I was shocked that they canceled when there's a basketball game tonight (for wit, I didn't see the MSFlyingCircus on the list, but no shocker there. Sorry Deb and Sally!), but I'm really hacked because now I've lost one of my last few rehearsals before the concert on Sunday night. Having already lost Friday for "tutorials," now losing Tuesday which has been statistically shown to be the best rehearsal day of the week, we are down to Wednesday and Thursday, which I'm sure can be interrupted for something irrelevant and time-consuming.

This does not bode well...

I'd like to have a word with you, buddy...

This is the one drawback to my gig. Somehow, the school has decided it's totally okay for parents to call teachers at home and file grievances. Ugh.

So, after this guy (well, not this guy, I don't even know what this guys looks like, he might look nothing like this guy, but this is what this guy looks like in my mind for the moment) calls me at 10:30AM, he calls my boss and insinuates that I've been ducking his calls. I wonder what it is he thinks I'm doing at 10:30 in the morning.

At a school.

While his child is there.

Surely not teaching. What a strange use of my time that would be. I most likely should've dropped everything I was doing (the aformentioned teaching) and taken his complaint call.

So, I find his complaint, registered through my boss, in my email inbox this afternoon after I'd finished teaching (and complimenting, incidentally) his child, and instructions to call him back and calm him down. So I tried. I called his work, his cell, and his home. I left messages.

I wonder if he'll call back?

OVER!

As I type this, I'm getting ready to head out the door to my last class of the semester. Thank God! I knocked out the 10 or 11 page paper Saturday, and now I'm headed to the de-briefing.



If anyone wants to read my opus, let me know. It's fascinating stuff. Really. Promise.

Finally!

I got all my Christmas shopping done!

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