Golf (pissed)

That's a pretty reasonable picture of the set of golf clubs I bought three weeks ago. This is how I feel about them now:



And not because I hate golf. No, no. In two weeks, I have snapped the heads off of both the driver and the hybrid. Fucking shit! Guess I figured out why the clubs were on sale. Then I come to find out that RAM has gone out of business. That's why they get the Middle Finger of the Apocalypse.

Bullshit.

Golf

4 hours. 122. Not bad for my second round ever.

Haters

So I got a call from my new boss (one of them, anyway (and yet again, and INTERIM)), telling me that the other teachers just weren't sure about what room I should be in to teach Beginning Band. She went on to tell me that elementary teachers are "very possessive" about their time, and so on and so on and so on...

I could go on. I could send out email after advocacy letter after you-name-it. No one reads them. My best revenge is to make 5th grade band so fucking awesome that finger painting and learning state capitals sucks balls by comparison. And I will. This is for the haters.



Also, my soon-to-be ex-lead-trumpet players calls me on Saturday to tell me he just "doesn't have time to do this one chart, and that if I don't do it, he's just gonna call [the boss] and tell him why it's not getting done." Fucking pussy passive-agressive bullshit. Then, he doesn't show up to load-in last night because the pathetic she-male "hurt his tendonitis in his foot while he was helping his mom weed the garden." Are you fucking kidding me? So, after some begging and pleading from the rest of the band, I knocked out the chart today. Took me 2 1/2 hours, and keep in mind, I stopped in the middle to take a few phone calls, answer an email or two, eat lunch, clean the cat-box, and READ HALF OF A FUCKING BOOK! This guy's only job is teaching trumpet lessons (and being a Jehovah's Witness, and I'm not knocking that, hey, if that's your preferred path to salvation, whatever, I'm not going to shit on anyone's religion BUT HE HAS NO OTHER JOB! Can one be a JW professionally? Does he edit the Watchtower?) and for some reason he doesn't have what should only take him (with his graduate degree and 20+ years of experience) 2 hours TOPS to complete?



This is him. Only, picture a trumpet up his ass.

Lately

Here's what's going on lately:



Why am I the only person who thinks this movie was awesome? As a kid, I always thought this was a better film than Top Gun, and for several reasons:
- No creepy (and pointless) beach volleyball scene, forcing one to confront questions only Stewie Griffin can answer.
- Chappy came home. Goose didn't. Who's would you rather be going into combat with?
- Iron Eagle actually had an antagonist (although they conveniently never say what country said antagonist is from). Top Gun basically had Tom Cruise against Val Kilmer's shark-like snapping teeth (has anyone figured out what that was about?)
- Sound track is way better. Everything you could want in 80's rock.

So, why does no one like this but me?

Next: Only two more weeks of LOTUS remain. I'm really looking forward to weekends off. Just bought myself a set of golf clubs, and played my first round last Friday. WAY more fun than hanging around with drunks in a bar. I've already been approached by other bands, but I'm just not interested. Being home with Gindo or out with her or out with friends is simply more appealing than Brick House.

Next: Got keys for the new job. The guy before me didn't get much end-of-year stuff done, so I've actually got quite a bit to do this summer. Just not quite motivated enough to start working yet. What is it, June 23? Yeah, probably not 'til, oh, say, July 6th. That feels about right.