Normally Wednesday is hump-day. You know that by lunchtime on Wednesday you are over halfway through the week, and it's all downhill form there. I like the feeling of momentum as the weekend approaches. By Thursday I always feel like Friday is just around the corner and Friday is virtually the weekend. That heady headlong dash to the freedom of Saturday begins on Wednesday, and God bless the Weekend! As much as I love my job, and I do, I love the bits in between a little more.
Anyway, this year, I have another reason to look forward to Wednesday. Wednesday is Treat Day! The various members of the TA ( Teacher Advisor group; home room, tutor group, form
group etc) take it in turns to bring in sweet and lovely snacks. Several times we have had Doughnuts for Mr Tim Horton, Dairy Queen Ice-cream Sandwiches (kudos to you, zesty), home made brownies, oreos and other wonderful snacks. I particularly love that the group has quickly worked out the way to Mr D's heart: chocolate! Whenever doughnuts are provided, I tend to receive a personal chocolate glazed chocolate doughnut. Mmmm. Who said money can't buy love? It can, but only if you spend it on doughnuts or brownies. Thanks guys, you're making it a ton of fun every Wednesday!Monday was a rare day too. Vicky and I treated ourselves to tickets to see Mr Billy Joel at the Saddledome, a huge arena here in Calgary built for the '88 Olympics and usually home to the Calgary Flames, the much beloved local Hockey Team in the NHL. We ended up with pretty good seats as well; one of my new friends has contacts who works at the 'dome. Nice!
Anyway, the man is a towering giant amongst entertainers. He was on stage for over 2 hours with no break and left 12000 fans wanting more. He played pretty much all the hits and some other stuff too, he was funny and charming between songs and managed to make it feel like a much more intimate gig than the numbers would suggest. I particularly liked when he told us the original lines to "She's Always a Woman" were
"She can kill with a smile, she can would with her eyes,
"She can ruin your face with her powerful thighs."
Try it, it fits perfectly. I'm not sure if he's spoiled it forever for me or made it even better.
He opened with a long piano introduction and it looked, to all intents and purposes, like he was just hitting the piano furiously for several minutes, but somehow this glorious music came out.
He rocks. Go see him if you can.
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As i move spiritually and mentally towards an unofficial semi retirement( god bless social services and its T O I L)which has enabled me to play golf at least one half day a week for the past two months I now begin to see the middle of the week as Tuesday especially as most of the aternoons have been Fridays.Its almost now expected that i will take a couple of hours T O I L on a Friday pm unless there is a staff shortage due to annual leave or sickness.Sickness has always seemed to me to be obligatory for the majority of social workers.Even Tina asks if I've been golfing or gyming when I get home on Fridays.Life is good at the moment.We went to the studio theatre at Lichfield Garrick on Friday 9th and saw an excellant production of A Midsummernights Dream set in the 1950's.There were only 4 players who each played 4 parts, it really was excellent.The theatre bar also stocked some fine Black Sheep ale on tap and a Jennings Cockers Ale.Have already booked to see a couple of other plays and shows in the New Year
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