Decisions, Decisions……

Since everyone else is updating us on their lives, I thought I would do so as well. As many of you have probably forgotten, I am currently the technology teacher/coordinator at St. James. Recently, I was offered the job of teaching sixth grade Math and Language Arts, and Friday I was offered the job of teaching 4th grade. Additionally, the 5th grade position might soon be opening, and I would also have that as an option! My goal has always been to teach 4th, 5th, or 6th grade; therefore, I have no clue what I am going to decide. I am leaning towards the 4th grade job because I would have my own classroom (the sixth grade position would require me to travel from classroom to classroom). However, if the 5th grade position opens, then I will definitely take it! Overall, I going towards my goals, but I need to come to a decision ASAP! Yikes!

500

Hey, this should be the 500th post on this blog. In honor of it, here is a video of my new home. I stole Kelroy's idea, but I don't feel to bad since I'm sure he stole the idea from someone else.

Catz

It Was only a matter of time people....the end is here. On a positive note, the newspaper businesses can probably be saved by increasing their readership through the new cat overlords

In case you are interested. . .

Well another school year is coming to a close so I thought I would take a moment to catch everyone up on what I have been doing, whether you are interested or not.

First of all my first museum exhibit opens June 5, 2010 at the National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Cemter in Wilberforce Ohio. The exhibit is called "Before it was Art: Cultural Connections to African Art" and features lots of items that people collect today but were created for actual reasons. Some things were used in religious practices, curtural practices, and just every day use. I got to reserach the musical instruments and I did a good job if I do say so myself (my instructor says so also). I only have one major unanswered question from my research: What does it mean to play an instrument open or stopped? I had to write a label for a harp-lute and I have no idea what that means (if I can get an answer soon I can update my label). Everyone is welcome to attend the opening, we are serving refreshments.

Second, I just finished creating a website! We had to use xhtml coding and a style sheet. We also had to use the collection we processed last quarter as the subject matter. Mine was Dayton: A Peace Process. You can learn all about it by going to www.wright.edu/~jacobs.39 where you can see my beautiful work. Make sure you click on all the links at the bottom. One of those links directs you to the finding aid I created last quarter. The list at the end of the document is a list of all of the folders in the collection. These are the folders I mislabeled then had to relabel by hand last quarter. In case you are wondering the re-labeling took 14 hours and I am finally starting to get feeling back in my hand.

Well better get some rest. We start installing the exhibit tomorrow so I'd better be rested and ready to go. Hopefully I will have some pictures to post soon.

Robots!!!

Fresh Wizard of Middle-Bel-Air

Sir Ian McKellen does a dramatic reading of Fresh Prince.

The Rikers - a Star Trek Sitcom

Video Is Up

I got the video of the Gen. Meade seminar up on the GenMeade Blog. Just click on my name and go down to where it list my blogs and click on GenMeade. It's only a minute long and has all the highlights. Like I said, "only mostly boring." Got to meet some interesting people, none of them hot women. There was a lady who looked like Nancy Pelosi, but since she isn't known for being a handsome women, I didn't bother to tell her that. The guy who played Gen Meade is Dr. Andy Waskie, who is also the president of the General Meade Society, which I am now a member. He was a great guy, we sat down at Gen. Pickett's and had lunch together. He told me if I ever go to Philadelphia to call him and he would give me a tour of Laurel Hill, where Meade was laid to rest in 1872.

If you watch the video you will notice an elderly gentleman in a red jacket. That is the famous tour guide and author Edwin C. Bearss. If you ever bothered to watch PBS's "Ken Burn's Civil War" then you've seen him already. The red jacket he has on is a Marine Jacket, he was in the 1rst Marines in WWII, that is Chesty Puller's unit, Chesty Puller being probably the most famous Marine in history I asked him if he ever got to meet him. He stood straight up and said "I fought right beside that son of a bitch." Probably one of the best moments in my life. All I could say was "Oorah". He told me that the HBO series the "Pacific" is about his unit, so I'll have to wait for the DVD to watch it. I get Stars, not HBO, so I got to watch "Spartacus".

JOB!!!

Everyone around here has been talking about jobs, so I googled it. The googlenet told me I didn't have one. Years later...I have a job!

I am now the Assistant Band Director to Nixa Public Schools and will be teaching 6-12th grade band!!! This is obviously very exciting for me and Dee Dee! Especially since I've been working with this program for 6 years, it will be an easy transition. I interviewed back in March, amoung 109 other applicants, and the school board voted on hiring me last week!

Basically, it will be me and two other directors team-teaching the entire band program. I'll be teaching 5-6 classes every day not including night practices for the high school band. I'll be very busy! Although, I count myself pretty darn lucky to make a career out of something that I love to do. My life is getting a little more adventurous, especially if Dee Dee and I get a house this summer!

Speaking of adventures, I also have ambitions to slowly build a professional music studio in my new unknown house. Some day, Dee Dee and I would like to have a legit side-business where I can write, arrange, and record music for commercial use (Video games, TV, commercials, radio, internet, etc...) Kelroy Sr. has already helped me get that ball rolling with having me do music for his games. Anways, that's obviously down the road -- I need to focus on having one job for now! Excitement!!! Thanks everyone for all the support (especially Mom for being more in-the-know of job openings than anyone I know). I hope to celebrate with you all some time soon!

Of Graduates and Cubicles - Congrats Mykl!

Gen. Meade

I'm off to Gettysburg for a two day seminar on Gen. Meade. Some of my favorite authors will be giving lectures, and they'll be giving guided tours of the ground and what Meade was thinking when he put his army there. They'll also have a actor portray Meade, how they now he's giving an accurate portrayal of him I'll never know, I'll record it and put it on the GenMeade blog for anyone who wants to see it, don't all go at once. They're also going to have a wine and beer tasting event. Sucks for me since I don't drink. I'm sure there will be a lot of hot girls at the Gen. Meade seminar, these kind of things attract hot women, so I'd better come prepared. I know it sounds boring to you guys, and 99.9 percent of the rest of the world, but I'm part of that 00.1 percent that finds it only mostly boring.