06.22.05

Those Lazy Summer Days

Tagged as Education, Music

There are advantages to working at a school. Although my position as Assistant to the Director of Technology does not allow for three months of summer vacation, my work schedule opens up nicely from June through August—I work four days a week, from nine in the morning until three in the afternoon. There are no kids around, and few other staff members, so I have plenty of time and space in which to get things done. And there’s no one around to complain about my music, so I’m finally catching up on all those albums I’d been meaning to listen to. Between the iTunes Music Store, eMusic, and AllofMP3, I’d managed to accumulate literally hundreds of unheard tracks in my iTunes library—a Smart Playlist revealed that the total length of these tracks was well over two days of continuous music. In the past week I’ve winnowed that down considerably; the unheard tracks now total around one day and twenty-one hours … not including a little over a day’s worth of podcasts … or nearly ten solid days of unheard This American Life MP3s.

I found out earlier this month that next year, in addition to being the middle school computer teacher, I’ll be taking over sixth through eighth grade Latin. I have three months to brush up. Wish me luck.

Also, I bought a car.

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