Band geek lamentations and ground hogs

Today at school we are hosting a state wide band competition. This means that our students have the day off and I am in charge of supervising a room full of orchestra kid's instruments. My teaching license hard at work. So suffice to say I'm bored and blogging. Well done William for carrying the blog of late. I thought I'd recap the weekend for those interested. I went to an international teaching job fair. It was crazy! There were over 600 educators and 200 some schools. All desperately networking, interviewing and schmoozing. I was close to signing contract a couple times but it didn't really pan out with schools I did want. Honestly it was just fun to be there and see what was out there. So half my time was spent at the international level, exotic and fast paced and the other half I was on my aunt's farm in a po'dunk town in Iowa. It was nice and grounding to go from interviewing with a school in Bolivia to walking through corn fields with my mom.
January was a hard month for me. The eternal darkness and cold mixed with my grandmother's death and decisions for the future... It feels good to feel good again and to feel a little more eager to go out and live life. It is ground hogs day after all. A day of new beginnings?? I hope you are all well. I'll give quick up dates on what I've heard from everyone.
The house at 3521 Nicollet: Peter is as chipper as ever and gave up drinking and maybe bathing??? but took up philosophising. Michelle is busy with the rigors of teaching history and having a long distant boyfriend. Which brings me to William, who I've seen a bit lately. He's has been looking at douche bags online and trying to figure out if his sheep is prego. Last I heard Katie was recovering from a drinking sesh with her roomies. What a lush. Mar is on a cruz in S. America. (WTF) Anna and Joe have been incommunicado. I heard Anna my have had whooping cough and I can imagine joe has been ice fishing a lot. Oh i almost forgot walter. He is doing incredibly well and is ridiculously hansom in every sense of the word. That's all I know about yall. You should post either artistically or not and let me know what is up.