Sick Child

Becky has been home sick all week. Finally got her fever down to 100.3 -100.6, but her cough is driving her (and me) crazy. Actually, being home with her for the past three days is driving me (and her) even crazier. I love my child, but such closeness is clautrophobic. So, I've been spending my time cooped up working on a postcard mailing for libraries and lots of time on MySpace. In fact, I need friends. http://www.myspace.com/sueschnitzer

Haven't worked on songwriting or my CD very much. It's amazing how tired I feel when I don't get out, don't walk the dog more than a few blocks, and can't sleep well because I'm worried about my kid. Today, I got out long enough to go teach my songwriting elective - my students are 5 sixth and seventh grade boys. Interesting group actually. A couple of them are in a band so they want to write a song for that, entitled "Camping sucks". I don't think we'll be able to share that one at share day (all grades, K-8). But, I'm letting them write it and we'll record it so I can burn them a CD. It's always interesting coming up with song ideas and titles with middle schoolers. Two of the kids are working on a song about poachers (not eggs!). It's about the elephants and tigers they're hunting in Africa turning the tables and hunting them. Hm.