Two days off

Yippee for Teacher conventions.... We have today and tomorrow off and I could use the vacation from school.

Tuesday all the Read 180 people went to a training session for the day on how to run and read the billions of reports associated with the program. He was a very good trainer and we learned a great deal more than we had at either of the other two training sessions. A couple of us got into a little trouble for giggling too much... yes that would be me and the teacher next to me, but shoot it was a long day.

One weird thing that has popped up in every single meeting we have had with these people is the phrase "come to Jesus meeting" Our first trainer must have mentioned that 4 times when she was talking about students and convincing them how important this program could be for them. I just thought it was an odd little phrase. She came up for a second training at the school and used the phrase again.

then a few weeks later the salesman for the program came up to discuss issues and he used the same phrase. I found that a little peculiar. It is not something I hear often. Finally at our most recent training with a completely different guy the dang phrase popped out of his mouth. I mentioned how odd it was in the car when we went off to lunch and danged if he didn't spout it again when we came back. Emily pressed down on my hand and I could not stifle the laugh... honest it was not my fault.

I am loving Google-talk. I get to talk to Maddie a couple times a week now and all it cost me was the $11.00 microphone. She is getting acclimated to school pretty well. I can't remember if I mentioned, but she did not get cast in the musical, then she was not accepted into the dance troupe either. She was pretty bummed out, but then she found a Zombie movie to work on. It is a senior film project and she is helping with makeup, playing with latex and oatmeal and all sorts of cool stuff.

She also has been working on the set for Best little Whorehouse and enjoying that a lot. She has quickly moved up to the only girl they let use the power tools to now running the follow spot for the show. That is pretty cool.

her most exciting theater moment happened recently when she got to paint the floor of the theater. It has always been a thorn in our sides that they will not let us paint the floor of our local theater. It is kept nice and shiny for the musical performers, but it reflects light like crazy and wreaks havoc with lighting. She said it gave her quite a thrill to be dry brushing the stage floor.

The big weirdness that has happened to her is that her roommate has ditched her. She found a post-it note saying that she was moving out in a couple days to go room with a friend in another dorm. She never said a peep to Maddie about moving and poor Mad doesn't even know if the school knows that she has moved.

Maddie did send her an e-mail asking for some particulars so that at least she knows what to expect. As far as I know if roommates are having issues they are supposed to go through mediation before they move. I am anxious to find out details.

I am headed up to see the show next Friday and I hope we get a chance to talk a little.

The weather is very nice today and I think I shall go to Janesville and do a little Halloween shopping. I am way behind in getting ready for trick or treating.

THANKS SPIDEY for the wonderful card and of course the confetti :)