Lunchtime Musings

Yes, Lenalee "Never Posts on Her Blog" Robinson is posting on her blog. . . amazing, I know. I've decided that I'm going to start trying to post something every day during lunch. . . it's one of the few quiet (give or take whatever George Winston-esque music I'm playing on Last.fm at the time) times of my day, and the senior AP students can probably give me food for thought if I need it. Whether or not you'd always want to read that particular line of thought is anyone's guess - within five seconds today, we managed to jump from Thomas Hardy to RuPaul - but at least I'll have something to say.

Speaking of Last.fm, I highly recommend it if you've never visited the site. Not only does it give you a chance to listen to whatever they have loaded that your iPod or other listening device may not, but it also gives you the chance to explore the music of artists that may be new to you. Lunch and planning these days basically start with my going to the site and asking it to play music like George Winston's (hence the "George Winston-esque" comment above) because his is pretty much perfect relax and/or grade papers music for me. However, it's also nice to have some variety in my new age jazz list. . .thus, I just let it throw tracks at me, skip the ones that I don't like, and fall in love with the ones that I do. (Of course, then I'm lulled into this falsely peaceful midday serenity. . . when the bell rings, as it did just now, to let me know that my seniors are about to return from lunch.) The biggest down side is that it makes me wish that I were curled up with a Starbucks latte of some description writing or reading or something that didn't involve paper grading.

Alas, my eleven realities (one is absent today) are back and peer reviewing, so I'll sign off for now. Let's see if (a) I can get myself in gear to do this again tomorrow and (b) if the world as we know it will end if I actually post something two days in a row!