Category: Rant & Rave

The SKY’s the limit

This week has been the longest, most stressful week in America and it isn’t even done yet!!! But, we had our first (of two) ensemble recital nights tonight and the way the kids performed certainly put me in a better mood. The Sky martini I had at dinner after helped, too. Thank goodness it’s Friday!

So Much to Say

I’m back to feeling like I have so much I want to get off my chest. I think the Dave Matthews Band expresses my thoughts pretty well for the most part. Thanks Dave!

So Much To Say Lyrics

I say my hell is the closet I’m stuck inside
can’t see the light
and my heaven is a nice house in the sky
I got central heating and I’m alright
yeah yeah yeah can’t see the light
keep it locked up inside don’t talk about it
t-t-talk about the weather
yeah yeah yeah
open up my head and let me out little baby
‘Cos here we have been standing for a long long time
can’t see the light
treading trodden trails for a long long time,
time, time, time, time, time, time

I find sometimes it’s easy to be myself
sometimes I find it’s better to be somebody else

I see you young and soft oh little baby
little feet, little feet, little hands little baby
one year of crying and the words creep up inside
creep into your mind yeah
so much to say, so much to say, so much to say, so much to say
so much to say, so much to say, so much to say, so much to say
‘Cos here we have been standing for a long long time
can’t see the light
treading trodden trails for a long long time………..

I find sometimes it’s easy to be myself
sometimes I find it’s better to be somebody else

so much to say, so much to say, so much to say, so much to say ohh
so much to say, so much to say, so much to say, so much to say
little baby ahh
so much to say, so much to say, so much to say, so much to say
little feet little hands little baby
so much to say, so much to say, so much to say, so much to say

open up my head and let me out little baby

*EDIT* Okay, so maybe just the first verse….

Just cold enough!

Well, it’s so cold out that not only did they delay school openings today, they closed school all together! I like having the day off, don’t get me wrong but getting a “snow day” just takes away a “Bad Weather Day” holiday that we have in the spring. Yes, we have two of them to burn but they’ve already taken away one because someone screwed up the Graduation schedule.

Graduation was originally scheduled to be on Friday, May 26 at the Frank Erwin Center. I don’t know the actual story but we (RRISD employees and community) were told this:

2005-06 Academic Calendar – Revisions
The 2005-06 Academic Year Calendar was approved based on RRISD graduations being scheduled on Thursday evening, May 25, and all day Friday, May 26. Availability at the Erwin Center has resulted in graduations being scheduled instead for all day Thursday, May 25, and the morning of Friday, May 26. As a result, an amendment to the calendar was made to move the last instructional day from Thursday, May 25, to Wednesday, May 24, to ensure that all family, friends, and necessary faculty can attend the commencement exercises. The calendar amendment was presented and approved at the meeting of the RRISD Board of Trustees on Oct. 20.

Did RRISD schedule graduation (and publish the district calendar) before the Erwin Center confirmed availability? Did the Erwin Center promise RRISD the dates and ended up double booking with AISD? We’ll never know. All I know is we have two less holidays in the spring. Oh well.

You know, it was 85 or so when I was at the Bobcat game on Saturday. It’s been that warm pretty much all the way up through this past Saturday. Did Mother Nature hold all the late fall cold weather and stock pile it to dump on us yesterday?

Okay, I have too many questions.

Pay HOW much???

As many of you that read my blog have degrees of some type from a higher learning facility, you may also be “victimed” to calls and emails asking for donations to some scholarship fund or whatever. Today, I received an interesting email.

A few weeks ago, I got a letter in the mail asking me to update my personal information via mail for the Texas State Alumni Association Directory. I’ve gone online a few times looking for old friends and have either experienced frustration or not in trying to find information so I decided that I would go ahead and update all the regular bits of information so people could find me if they were looking. Today, I got an email asking me to call and verify that they had all the correct information. The opening message basically told me the same thing as well as “You will also have the opportunity to reserve YOUR copy of the Texas State Alumni Association Directory at the end of the call!”. Okay, cool. I can deal with having this information right on hand.

So, the calls goes just as I imagined. The nice young lady on the other end of the line tells me what information she has and if it’s correct and if there’s anything else that’s been left off. “No, it all sounds right.” I say. So, she gets to “And would you like to go ahead and reserve your copy of the Alumni Directory now? The Directory includes Texas State University history and pictures and is a wonderful addition to anyone’s Texas State memorabilia collection. It’s available in either book form or on CD. The CD also includes pictures that can be emailed as well as the school song and fight song…”. I had to cut her off. I was in the band and played the fight song and school song so many times over 8 years that the soundtrack lulls me to sleep some nights.

So I ask, “How much?”. “Just two installments of $30.00….” I cut her off again. It cost me over $23,000.00 to go to school there. I am NOT paying $60+ for a CD of things I already have or can access online or by calling the Alumni House!!! I know what you’re thinking. “She’s cut this nice young lady off twice now. She must be getting irritated enough to be rude to this person, who’s just trying to do her job!” No worries. I was nice about saying no thank you. In fact, my $23,000 comment made her laugh.

At least they didn’t ask me to BUY a replacement diploma again since the name change….

Up late

I hate when I can’t seem to sleep. So many thoughts, so many emotions are just rushing through me tonight. I can’t seem to focus on one thing…or on nothing. Mostly, I think it is just anger. Another painful step in the healing process.