Annoying Sub on Friday

Apparently, I received the world's worst Substitute Teacher to fill in for me on Friday. This is highly offensive on two levels:

1) I am a substitute teacher, and I hate people who reflect poorly in a position that I also work in

2) She was completely disrespectful to my children

I have taken a dear and keen ownership of my students, and anyone who behaves poorly should be reprimanded. I am in the process of compiling a collection of evidence that will, hopefully, refuse her work in this building ever again.

Incompetence is pathetic. Poor professionalism is worse. Worthless and irreverent individuals make my blood boil.

Full Time Subbing

Well, as you can imagine,
Full Time Subbing on a Long Term scale
takes a lot of work.

As I haven't finished this work yet,
I shoul probably stop blogging...

Profuse Vomiting

Well, unfortunately five of my girls began vomiting profusely after seeing a human brain in their science class today. Poor things, they were all red-faced and teary-eyed from the process. Must have been quite an ordeal from them.

Poor little dears,
they really are sweet girls.
Mostly.

I'm sure they'll be ok.

Are you kidding me?

R. J. Stevens
Song Leaders Instructional Set

Is this some sort of scam? Do you see the price tag here? Did Jerry Bruckheimer somehow get involved in this production?

How on earth do you expect someone to pay $130 +$10 shipping for this thing?




Just look at the contents:
two DVD's
a Workbook
a guide to Hymns for Worship
a Dictionary

If we "rightly divide" the $130 among the 5 items, it turns out to this:
$26 = DVD 1
$26 = DVD 2
$26 = Workbook
$26 = Guide to Hymns for Worship
$26 = Dictionary

I can imagine paying $26 for a workbook, but the main reason I never purchased Nova's show on Einstein's Big Idea was because the discs were about $20 each. For crying out loud, I'm sure Song Leader Revolution II won't be this expensive (incidentally, Song Leader Revolution II premiers April 13, 2007).

Whatever happened to going to church in the middle of no where, and learning how to lead singing because you needed to figure it out? Whatever happened to the leadership in the church passing on their learning, skills and experiences to their young? Isn't that what shepherds are supposed to do? I'd be interested to know which section of the country orders more of these Singing Packages. Are more being mailed to Alabama, Tennessee and Kentucky? Or are more orders coming from Nebraska, Iowa and Minnesota?

sheesh...

p.s. by the by, cassettes are on sale for about $3-7.00

New Video

I purchased 6 Eric Carle books for my wife to celebrate her being a mommy. I discovered that the glossy pages of Martha Stewart Living makes excellent wrapping paper.

I couldn't resist, and here's my video:
Martha Stewart Wrapping Paper

"The folley of Boston Billey"

In honor of our nation’s “great passion for a good detective story” I feel that I have no choice but to revise a common myth about early American history. While many feel that Georgia O’Keefe’s depiction of our nation’s most famous, if only, Tea Party to be an accurate, Lady O’Keefe left out an important event in the story.

There is no reference to Samuel Adam’s sketch of “The folley of Boston Billey”. As seen here, the only known sketch of William Peggy Stewart, more commonly known as “Boston Billey” was reportedly quickly made in a local pub in late December of 1773. To the apparent dismay of “Boston Billey”, it was displayed in the pub for the next 47 years until acquired by Harvard University to be archived.

Samuel Adam’s sketch, though drawn many days after the event, keenly illustrates the events which prompted Paul Revere to write the ballad “The folley of Boston Billey”. The story proposes that Samuel Adams, in an effort to encourage his fellow “Boston Tea Lobbers” exclaimed: “Lads, the moment of truth is upon us. Gird up your loins to cross this sea, and heave with your might yon angry tea.” Boston Billey, simple of mind, mistook the directions and promptly “girded and grasped yon angry tea, and lobbed his loins deep into the sea”.