I am writing this from the Taylor the Teacher Twitter Rehabilitation Clinic. I am allowed one supervised trip on the Internet a day. My counselor (Kate) is sitting right here (in case I have a moment of weakness). I checked myself in after my one thousandth tweet. Just so we have the story straight-I recognized the problem on my own. I hear McTeachand garageflowers might be heading here too. It would be nice to have some company.
I thought about what my 1000 tweet should be- to whom would I write(@) it? No one cared about my first tweet….. is the 1000th really important? Had I really said 1k <140 character pronouncements? I decided to be more succinct. I used my milestone tweet to do the routine Spanish Tweet of the Day.
Many of you have a higher tolerance for massive tweet sessions. I am obsessive and maniacal. It is seductive to lurk and see if anyone responds an @me.
This weekend also increased my followers by some insane amount due to a DEN fiesta in Tennessee. The pressure to produce high quality entertaining twitter action for my new audience also attributed to my self-confinement. I hear next weekend is “Visitors Weekend. “ If anyone sees Diane Cordell-tell her I am jonesin’ and bring her cell. I plan on using it to text a few in…..
Your 1996 Theme Song Is: Ironic by Alanis Morisette
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It’s like rain on your wedding day
It’s a free ride when you’ve already paid
It’s the good advice that you just didn’t take
Who would’ve thought … it figures
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What’s Your 1996 Theme Song?
I actually really like that song. I need music to say something. For the first few years I lived here in my present locale, I bemoaned the lack of radio choices I left behind in NYC. Music was available (no matter what your mood) to provide you an outlet-to say melodically what was churning internally. I am now listening to a radio station that plays standards-much to the dismay of my 13 year old daughter. I need a variety of music everyday to get me through. My Ipod is a trusted companion-but even on shuffle not as spontaneous as a gem from the past that pops up on the airwaves. A Frank Sinatra classic never lets me down. They are so smoothly sophisticated. I asked my twitterpals to help me select some music to help me make it to the bitter end of our school year in late June. The following is the list of recommendations I was given:
1)kolson29 Alice Cooper-”School’s out”(yes, you got first dibs!)
2)joebrjr -any Pete Seeger
3) dmcordell The Animals-”We’ve got to get out of this place”(oh so true!)
4)dmcordell The Doors-”Alabama” (I know it well)
5)TeachaKidd-anything by Blue Man Group
6)GingerTPLC Bad Religion “I want to conquer the world”(needed a good anthem!)
7)classroomqueen - a good old Supremes hit!(I am leaning towards “You keep me hangin’ on)
8)MetaWeb20 Monica Naranjo-”Desatame” and Alejandro Fernandez “Como Quien Pierde una estrella”
I found Bebe “Malo” myself. I am also fond of Queen’s “I want it all”.
Considering Steely Dan’s “My Old School”
Perhaps I should mention the itunes card we are burning came courtesy of Mzinga-I was their 75th follower on twitter. Any more recommendations? Bring it on’. I will need the musical inspiration to keep me going until the bitter end.
I have had to sit through too many of these ‘tween comedies on both Disney Channel(Suite Life of Zach and Cody) and Nickelodeon(icarly) to not comment as a mom and educator. Have you noticed the trend towards parents/adults/educators played as buffoons? The adult characters are ridiculous and the tween protagonist is always the wittiest, brightest, coolest kid in his/her class. Basically every episode is formatted to follow this pattern:
- Kids get in trouble with an adult
- Kids do something sneaky to get around the consequence.
- Kids usually succeed in getting their way/making adult look foolish.
- Kids sit on couch at the end of episode, smugly reviewing how fun it was.
(based on about three seasons of Drake and Josh that I have seen the same episode about 50 times)
If you aren’t aware of these programs and want to see for yourself,you can click this link and read about Sam, the female sidekick to Carly on Viacom owned Nick’s icarly. It is her list of ways to get detention. I will be exerting my parental right to turn this drival off.
