Frog Blog

my mother brought me a ten-pack of my favorite gum. i like extra's cinammon gum, too, just for the record. anyway, i popped in a stick of the green gum tonight and forgot how strong it is-- much stronger than the gum in france. but it lasts longer! an extra long time! haha

today i got suckered into taking a tour of the grand theatre in my city with a class of tenth graders. sounds like fun, but it wasn't. after about an hour and a half of listening to french, my brain turns into a useless pool of mush (this is getting better-- it used to be after about an hour of french i'd experience the mush)-- and this tour lasted about two hours and 40 minutes. an extra long time. and i think i experienced vertigo in the theatre. it's all red, with these cutouts of huge eyes in the walls (no joke) and it's rather small yet very curved, so on the third balcony, trying to concentrate on the host's face with the eyes in the background and being way up high-- good god, i felt a little... odd. shit like that rarely happens to me-- i have no problem with heights or balance and don't normally feel claustrophobic or vertigo unless i'm very, very drunk, which is pretty rare. i'm chalking it up to the combination of my overworked brain trying to figure out the french and the fact that i thought this tour would be about an hour, not almost three.

it was also a bit boring because i knew about everything the host spoke of. i've worked stage crew; i know what gels are and where the green room is and why it's green. i've seen backstage and lightboards and the rope room.

i also didn't particularly like the group of kids i was with-- they don't pay attention in my classes and trying to get them to talk is like trying to teach your cat how to use a blowdryer.

i'm always stuck with the shit kids. L, whom i work with, recently signed up for four weeks of my lessons with his shit kids-- ugh!! those are the hours that go by the absolute slowest.

it's been spitting snow all night and day and will continue to do so until the end of the week. i'm beginning to doubt if spring will ever appear. although all the shops have begun to display their sweet pastel spring clothes and some grocery stores are busy putting out chocolate bunnies and eggs. it's funny how you can tell the seasons through food and the colors of fashion.