Long weekend!

I was getting all ready to come home for spring break and then my car, Georgia, and I got in a fight with a concrete pole while we were parking and I had to pay my insurance deductable so going anywhere is pretty much out. Um... so that sucks. I guess it's kind of ironic that people want to come to Miami for spring break, but all I want to do is leave.

So anyway, here is is, $1,400+ worth of damage.

That was last Saturday night and I just picked it up this morning. So at least Georgia is back in commission. Good thing, too, because I'm heading to Ft. Lauderdale tonight to watch the boys' basketball team from my school play the championship game. It's something to do, at least. A couple of my kids play on the team, so it'll be nice to see them and Tiffany's in Sarasota this weekend so it's something good to do.

Anyway, when I damaged my girl I was in a parking garage in CoCo Walk, heading to see Ali's brother's band play. He plays sax (tenor and soprano) in a band called Sol De Mato. They're actually really good--kind of a Dave Matthews Band meets Los Lonely Boys type thing. After the show, Ali, another girl from work, Jo, Jo's boyfriend Richy, Ali's room mate's girlfriend and I all went to this place called The Transit Lounge. It was a cool little dive, with live music and board games! We ended up playing Apples to Apples for, like, two hours or so and then heading home. It was really fun.

Sunday T and I tried to go to the Coconut Grove Arts Festival with Lancelot, but they wouldn't let him in (DUMB) so we took off after only a little bit. Turns out it was a good choice, because right after we got home it started pouring rain. That evening, I drove out to South Beach to visit Marta, Luis, and Abita as Luis' place. I spent the evening out there with them, we had some dinner, I graded some papers, good times were had by all.

Since it was a long weekend, I also had Monday and Tuesday off. Woot!! So Monday I went back to the Arts Festival and walked around a bit. I found a couple of artists from Michigan and talked to them for a bit, plus I saw some really amazing art. Jewelry that was more like sculpture, this guy who carved wooden moving toys, all kids of sculpture and art of all kinds. There was even a sculpture garden with moving animals made of metal. They were cool.

Feeling artsy, I took this shot. In my next life, I'm coming back as a photographer. A drumming photographer. Heck yeah.

Monday ended up being a really lovely day, despite grey skies in the morning, so I figured Tuesday would be nice too, even though it was "supposed" to rain all day. Of course, no such luck. I went to the doctor's in the morning, and then waited all day for the sun come out so I could go to the beach. But, of course, Mother Nature hates me and I stayed inside all day. BOOOO. It ended up being okay, though, because I had essays to grade and work to do.

The rest of this week has been okay--the kids are totally off the wall. It's almost like, if their schedule is disrupted in any way, they forget how to act at school. They're total nightmares, even more so than normal. Gag. One cool thing, though, is that Royal Idol auditions are this week (like a huge talent show for the school) so it's been neat to see the kids doing something they enjoy and are great at, like singing and acting. The auditions continue into next week, so I'm kind of looking forward to that.

Fredy and I are putting a little joke act together, so I'll be practicing that all next week too. I tel you, a teacher's job in never done.

No real plans for this weekend, other than the game tonight. I've got a bunch of work to do, of course, so I'll probably lay low and try to get that done.

Much love.