1. i'm wearing striped trousers
2. my desktop wallpaper is currently green
3. last week i bought some magnets
4. i just got a 30% raise
5. i don't speak the language where i live
6. i've never seen Top Gun
7. i like to eat bananas with peanut butter
8. i enjoy camping alone in the desert
9. i have three degrees in anthropology
10. i don't like ice cream
11. i have a cat named Biscuit
12. my wife had to work late today
13. next week i turn 32
14. i need glasses but i'm too lazy to do anything about it
15. i also need a haircut. bad.
16. i still play with legos
17. i am prone to yell out nonsensical crap for no reason
18. i'm really good at Scrabble
19. i dig Uncle Scrooge comics
20. today i wore a red shirt with a cartoon chicken on it
21. i can't sleep past 6am
22. i could spend an entire day at the zoo watching various primates
23. i'm going to Texas in a few weeks
24. i have 10 fingers and 10 toes
25. i'm glad this is finally done

Top Gun was pretty boring..

and yeah legos w00t<3

I'll take the bait...

1. I teach well over 400 students Mon-Fri

2. I have a husband and three adopted sons

3. I marched with The Cadets Drum and Bugle Corp

4. I wear glasses, but only when I have to read something. Like a score.

5. One of my all time favorite bands is The Beach Boys

6. My Guilty pleasure band is the Charlie Daniels Band

7. I can teach anybody how to play anything as long as they want to and they try.

8. My teaching methods are off the wall. I do not write people up, kick them out of the room, or send them to the office. Instead, they serve a session with me doing manual labour; whatever I happen to need done.

9. My little brother is a Mass State Trooper. He's also a pest because he pulls me over for no good reason.

10. My mom plays piano with the BSO.

11. My dad was in the US Navy.

12. I speak a little French, and Italian.

13. I'm half Irish and half Italian.

14. I've broken 26 bones as a result of a marching band injury.

15. I will always fight for my students.

16. In 13 years of teaching, I've written up a total of three people.

17. I've been punched in the face four times, by studnents.

18. I've been stabbed twice, once by a student.

19. I teach at a regional high school

20. When I was 14, I sailed from Boston to Charleston, SC, with my dad and brother.

21. My dog's name is Toby and he's fully trained. He only listens to me.

22. My husband, Chrisitian, is an EMT.

23. I have 4 best friends, whom I've known since high school. We're all professional musicians.

24. I play with several performing groups. A brass choir, a chamber orchestra, a youth orchestra (I'm the director), and a string quirtet.

25. And finally, I used to be able to tap dnace when I was a kid. Now it's ball room-slow dancing.

Fuck, man! What was the reason behind that?

I always assumed you were Male, and then the mention of a husband threw me off and I'm half and half. What are you? Male?

^ he's g-ay

Um...The first time I got stabbed was a bar fight. I was at my brother's bacholer party, and two of the guys got a little out of hand, so I tried to break them up, and one of them stabbed me with a piece of glass. The second time, I'm not really sure why, purhaps just a really bad day. He stabbed me with a pencile.

The first three times I got punched in the face, I don't really remember why. The fourth time, I had asked the student to do something or another, and he just hauled off and hit me in the face.


And yes, I'm a guy and married to a guy.

Damn that's pretty rough.

Hey you can come work at my school.. we're much less violent, though probably equally obnoxious.

And you are almost certainly cooler than our current band/music teacher.

My school really isn't that violent. I've been here for 13 years. I consider four hits in 13 years a good record, ha. I think part of it is that we put alot of pressure on our students. Because of our regional high school status, we can be very selective about the students we accpet. And we hold very high acedemic standards for them. I s'pose that the stress simply got to 'em.
We're what's called a "Proffessional Devolopement School", meaning that for college students majoring in education, Clear View is the place to go to get your hours in the classroom. Education majors have to have a certain amount of hours observing a teacher, helping students, and infact teaching every now and again. It's so that the teachers-to-be have a little bit of experince before they start. If you're planning on teaching at a high school level in Mass, Clear Veiw is the place to be.

And thanks, ha. But I like my school. The students are fairly sane...

You're not wrong