Pleasant surprises

It's a funny ol' world. School is just about finished, and I am missing it already. Surprise surprise! The teaching bit i mean. We must be there tomorrow for a meeting and then I am at Sonans in Drammen on Wednesday after which I am having an evening out with my class. I'm looking forward to that and will probably have to accept a lot of cheekiness meant in a very positive way from a gang of kids it's pleasure to spend time with. I am still a novice when it comes to the data registration of absence and when Marte and Elin et al come and ask me to change lessons into days, I feel as if they are asking Jesus to change water into wine, the only difference being that Jesus knew how to do it. I'll have to get our IT man to open the class pages so I can do this. The reason is not the kids, eesentially it is teachers who haven't filled in absence which makes it look as if the kids have bunked off lessons.
And another surprise was the offer of a journalist job in Norsk Hydro which came through on the phone this afternoon. A tempting offer indeed, at least as far as the money is concerned. But it is not a journalist job in the sense of following news, more a writer job distributing NH propaganda and a lot of the time saying things I would have trouble supporting. This makes me sound like a prisoner of conscience, or at least a potential one, and I have perhaps demonstrated how stupid I can be in that regard already. But an offer is an offer and it will be given due consideration. It can't be denied that I feel a bit flattered as well. Who wouldn't be?
Choir practice tonight, and another couple of hours struggling with Stravinsky, the music world's answer to Strindberg or Edvard Munch. There are no harmonies which appeal to the ear and conductor Steffen has a hard time convincing me that this is nice music. It isn't. It is offensive music. I must remember to have a Handel cd with me in the car to play on the way home. A sort of cleansing of my musical senses experience, music with logical harmonious chords and a proper start and stop.
Life goes on...