Happy Anniversary

The last break is over (Congratulations Devin and Arielle and Happy Anniversary Sarah and Me) and now it's two and a half weeks to shoot. And except for the endless list of things to do, everything is fine. These days are made up of small victories. Finding out that St. Mary's hadn't told us that we could use their cafeteria, for instance. This means thousands of dollars in potential savings but it also has a darker meaning.

It's possible that after eating in a dining center for three six day weeks at odd hours and, after occasionally sleeping in a dorm, and after spending all of this time with 15 18 year-olds and after seeing some of them wearing some of my clothes from eighteen years ago, it's possible that I will show up naked to my AP Chemistry class having not studied only to find out that there really has been an exam scheduled all this time that I still need to take to graduate and that the two decades of bad dreams that I've been suffering through have been true. It's a very different movie, true, but it's possible.

Today is the first time that I will get to see Josh with Amanda and Allie, his girlfriends, and I can only hope that they strike much fear into his heart for him to mull over for the next couple of weeks. It's not hard to imagine what songs teenage boys bludgeon themselves with these days. All of the melodramatic music of today does sound pretty much like the melodramatic music of twenty years ago. Making my job much easier. Convenient, that.