In a conversation yesterday I was asked why I thought I wouldn’t be able to do a performance at night and still stay on top of my daughters middle school application related activities during the day. I suppose I could. But, on the other hand, a lot of psychic energy went into the performance at La MaMa last September and I am just now remembering how I was in six different productions between August and December of my senior year in high school and somehow never managed to complete a single college application. Just sayin…
I’m not freaking out yet…:
MAY CALENDAR REMINDERS
Attention 3rd and 4th Grade Families…
Middle School Workshop next Tuesday, May 11 at 6:00pm. Please RSVP to Blake Amos. Childcare will be provided.
DETAILS:
PS 8 PARENT WORKSHOP:
GETTING ORGANIZED FOR THE MIDDLE SCHOOL SEARCH
WHEN: TUESDAY, MAY 11; 6PM TO 7:30PM
WHERE: PS 8 AUDITORIUM
NOTE: REFRESHMENTS YES; CHILDCARE NO
Come learn how to get on top of the search process and not make yourself crazy.
Agenda includes:
! Walk-through timeline to help you plan ahead
! Demystifying the application process – presentation by a pro, Joyce Szuflita*
! Doing tours, tour info, issues/questions to ask before, during and after tours
! PS 8/The School’s role in the process
! Resources – books, websites, people
Why Wasn’t My Kid Invited?
For a few moments, as I sip my morning coffee and check e-mail, a wave of paranoia and adolescent insecurity washes over me when I learn, through the listing of conflicts while organizing a Girl Scout event, that two of my daughter’s best friends have been invited to a birthday party and she has not. My child is perfect and so I wonder; Is it me?” Do I not host enough playdates? When I talk to the other parents at after school pick up, do I say the wrong things? Are we a weird family?
Our weekend is already full. Between soccer and piano and Girl Scouts, (Not to mention Sakura Matsui at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden that I was hoping to drag my family through in the time between the soccer game and the piano lesson) it would be a major complication if we had to squeeze a birthday party into the Saturday schedule. Besides, my daughter is already going to a birthday party on Sunday.
I don’t even know whose birthday party my child is not invited to. It might not even be one of her friends. It might be a younger boy’s birthday party, the friend of a sibling. Both of the girls with the birthday party conflict have brothers and live on the same block.
My daughter is oblivious and it’s not my problem.
And yet, I can’t help but worry about it, for at least as long as it takes to finish my cup of coffee.
This is an original NYC Moms Blog post.
Festival Application
This evening, after I read the e-mail about the Toronto Festival of Clown call for cabaret acts for June, I spent some time looking at the Brick Theatre website and the application for the 2010 New York Clown Theatre Festival, due May 15. I hesitate, because I don’t want do drop the ball regarding My Kid’s education. The festival is in September and the word on the playground is that I have to be really on top of my game as an involved parent from the first day of school or my daughter will not get to visit and apply to the more interesting public middle schools.
Unintended clowning
Every grade presented a performance of some sort on the last day of religious education for the year. A few kids were happy to be on stage while others tried to blend in with the wall. The microphone kept shorting out. I particularly enjoyed the 4th graders with their cardboard Ark of the Covenant.
Studio Time
We had a clown jam today. It was great to see the other women and share the hugs and greetings at the beginning of the session. There were only 6 of us altogether but that’s a good number to have some solo, duo and trio improvisations. The studio was nicer, a new floor was put in since we were last there and we were given specific instructions to avoid tap dancing and flamenco dancing. Got it. Not a problem.
My sister called me to see what was up in my world
My sister called me because of the shake up at Random House, she thought The Husband worked there, but he is at one of the other major New York publishing houses. My sister’s boss’s editor at Random house lost her job… It’s a shakey world for everyone.
The friend with the babysitting issue…
She was going into a 4-hour board meeting. OMG!
Oh Well…At least I made an appearance…
I missed most of the fundraiser. But, I did show up and I talked to some other parents, and the principal, and I had a glass of wine, and I have a lead on overnight camp for the future…
But, I didn’t get to experience much of the party. I missed the lite dinner food, and I missed the live auction…
But,
I was there…
At least for a little while…
We really can’t expect anything more…
Friends twittering about Banana Shpeel
Friends will go see Banana Spheel tonight, the first night of previews. I looked up the cast on line. Patrick de Valette is in it! I met him at the New York Clown Theatre Festival. He’s a French street and cabaret performer and genuinely funny. I have renewed hope for that show.