Book Update

I'm on pg 704 of Harry Potter 5! Not much longer now!

Oh yeah, I'm leaving work early today. We do this thing during the warm months called "Spring Fling", where you can work thirty minutes extra every day of the week and get off (including your lunch that day) a half day early one day that week. That's what I'm doing, and I'm splitting up my half day between today and Thursday.

Tonight, the marching band has a booster club meeting (parental and financial support system: aka: where my paycheck comes from). We're meeting our new director as well. Hopefully, she'll whip this band into shape like it has needed for a long time. Also, band camp next week! I have a whole week of vacation set aside just for camp. Though, I'm missing the next week, probably all of it, too. It's either that or miss some of the away football games as I don't have THAT much vacation time... I'd have to dip into my sick time, and I was sorry I took that step last year when it came time for my allergies to hit an all-time high. I'm just going to have to prioritize. Either way, I lose $$. We get paid not for the whole week, but for each separate event.

Thursday, we have our last Furman Lakeside concert. I really love being a part of it, but it's always hard for me to rearrange my work schedule to fit the rehearsals and concerts, just like with marching band. In fact, unless I change my actual work schedule, maybe even just 30 minutes earlier, that fact won't change. Wow - if I had just 30 minutes, I could keep so many extra days due only to the Greenville Concert Band that I have every Thursday during the school year, as well as Lakeside. Berea (marching band) would still require some 1/4 and 1/2 days off, but it wouldn't be so hard to work that out if I had the extras left over from these!

Yikes - I have a big mouth today, and I just got here! More later.