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[spacebug]

So I've got my first day off since all con craziness. I'm feeling better after sleep and food and a few days of decompression. Space lounge rocks, Shriners suck, I'm done bitching or really talking about that whole thing, I guess. My weekend was strange and stressful and a rather inopportune time to find out about strange things completely unrelated to the convention. I'll leave it at that, and see how I feel about the whole mess by next month or next year or just... later.

It's now time to kick into gear for Burning Man, and the score I need to finish, and the wedding I'm in, and the moving I'm doing in 2 weeks, and the Fineline show I'm playing the night before we leave for the desert. What, rest after Con? Hell, no, why don't I get myself involved in some Fringe Tech, too, since I've so much mythical free time? (At least there's One Thing I'm not involved in yet.) But then there's the bits that want to join the Y, too, and volunteer at KFAI. And find somewhere to get teaching experience and see how I like it, and maybe see about getting a real live certification so I could maybe find a real job (celias? how hard is this??), and look for music grants and learn how to use star5's old digital camera and find a place to put the Sensorium outside Con, and learn to wire LED's or circuit bend stuff... And And And... (sigh)

So today I slept a lot and then went to breakfast at the Seward with s4, and then I met jodi and Oliver at the Art Institute where we ditched jodi's boring class and sneaked into seeing one of the normally-you-pay-for-it exhibits thanks to bumping into old friend and Institute Employee, J. Hooray for free art! Hooray for rambling pseudo-sentences!

Right now I find that I'd really like to take the rest of my alone-afternoon and work on some music or something. Pity my speakers aren't hooked up and that my mixer, keyboard, cables, and FX processor are inaccessible, having been transported to two different houses (neither of which are mine) in post-con-crazy-loadout. I did get my monitor back, at least, so now I can use my own computer again...

Comments

teaching

[celias.livejournal.com]

Hey schmoosh - i'm glad the fun parts of con were fun! About teaching certificate: i'm not entirely sure because i'm going for my out-and-out license, which is taking me 2 years - but varies for each discipline (social studies 5-12th grade is a longer one). Not anything less than a year, though. I know my friend matt got his certificate in a week, but then could only do substituting (don't do it!) and teach in private schools (sweet gig if you can get it). The environment in minnesota right now is crap for teaching, however way you go about getting there. This only changes with budget and (unfortunately) government (democratic or other) decisions. I'm looking into moving to Seattle in two years to hopefully guarantee my own classroom. If you want to find out more about more temporary stuff (anyone can be an Educational Assistant, it's like a teacher's assistant in the classroom), you might want to look at the minneapolis public school website, or hamline's grad in ed programs.
Hope that's somewhat helpful, or at least not too confusing!?! celia

[celias.livejournal.com]

OH! if you want to see how teaching is, there's lots of teachers who let you observe... i know some cool ones in white bear lake. it could just be for a day if you wanted. Let me know what area it would be most interesting for you, i'll see what i can do?
or you could look at some of my coursework stuff - whatever you want!

[spacebug.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Yeah, it's tricky, 'cause the stuff that I'd like to teach isn't super-traditional, but it's becoming more and more popular. I found a job posting for the Arts High School for a music teacher that needs to know electronic music and traditional theory and recording and has either a jazz or classical background. I have all those things! And they said certification was only preferred... So I gave them my number, but dunno if I'd even be in the running 'cause I don't have any teaching experience, but MAN. That'd be so cool! I don't want to be a band director at all- I wanna teach artsy kids who are sick of normal high school (like I was) about how to use synthesizers and stuff. We'll see.

[celias.livejournal.com]

Oo! Oo! do that!! with that sort of laxness from the school, you should be able to get that one-week certificate thing. he did it at Century Community College in white bear, but i think lots of community colleges have it for not very much money!
good luck!