Leslie Marie Collins

Today, I woke up with a dryness in my mouth that indicated to me, “ugh… am I getting sick again?” I fought off the plague last week and I thought it was coming back.  I think in the end, it was just dry in my room.  Plus, I have also started sleeping with my eyes open apparently.  My eye doctor said, “you know, you don’t fully close your eyes when you try to close your eyes.  That probably explains why your eyes are always dry in the morning.”  So, dry throat and dry eyes make for a rough sunday morning start.  But I got up, lubed up my eyeballs, walked the dog, made some lunch (cause I usually sleep in until after normal breakfast time is over) and then headed to the internet cafe to print off something because my printer isn’t compatible with my new computer.  WHY????  I get so mad thinking about how a printer can be such a pain in the ass because it won’t work with my beautiful new mac.  I have saved this thing from all kinds of tragedies.  I found a pen, a credit card and a sand dollar all in this printer.  Nursed it back to health and she worked great until I got my new computer.  Now, she’s just being straight up bitchy.  I downloaded a new driver but I apparently that doesn’t work unless I write some new computer code and clean up my disk utility to get the new driver to work.  For someone who is computer stupid, that task is harder than throwing her out the window. So, I think I’m gonna throw her out the window and then buy a new one.  But will my next printer be as temperamental as the last?  I don’t know.  I just don’t know.  

SO, YES, I taught my Level One at the PIT today.  Such a sweet and lovable class.  I am looking forward to teaching them and can’t wait to see where these guys go.  THEN, the real fun began when I started my Level One musical improv class at the Magnet.  I had so much fun.  I have done some musical improv, but it felt so good to just beat into my brain what exactly an opening song is.  I knew what it was and could feel it, but it was awesome to just spell it out.  I have always been a slow learner (SAT/ACT scores indicate I might be dumb, like really dumb ass stupid) and sometimes you have to bash me over the head with the info. for me to get anything.  And that we did.  By the end of class, everyone was doing successful opening numbers.  It was such a long way from the beginning of class… just 3 hours later, a huge success.  It felt good.  So, in a nutshell… Sunday was good.  Sunday was fun!