whew

I was almost worried that I would have to take down this blog if Google didn't get off it's kiester and update their search engine, um, stuff. I don't know the technical term, but I know that I followed all the rules that Google itself laid out in it's "help" section if you don't want your pages to be located in a search. It was actually a pretty simple fix. Just a single line of code had to be changed in the html for this blog.

But I kept doing searches for things that sitemeter had told me were guiding folks to my page. The most popular was the crown moulding stuff from last fall. And my page kept popping up in the results. Like, on the very first page.

Plus an image search for "Kevin Hart gay" gave my picture on the very first image page. (am I really THAT gay??)

So, wanting to be safe from the savvy search skills and peering eyes of junior high kids, I was more than ready to say adieu to the blog. Thus, I haven't been blogging all month.

But, alas, I've been checking for a couple weeks now and my blog seems to have become invisible to Google.

Yea!

I'm still a bit cautious and if you, one day, are eager to find out the latest and most fascinating news on me and discover the blog to be gone, you'll know that I have been infiltrated by nosy kids.

The quick and dirty:

I'm more than surprised to find that I love my new job. Before school began I was at school for 12 hours a day for a few weeks trying to clean up a huge mess of music left by my predecessor. I knew I'd have a challenge in front of me. The choir last year only had 32 kids out of a nearly 500 student school. And they stunk. When I got to the school this summer I realized that the choir was just the scum on top of a very dirty pond. The choir library at the school has nearly 1000 titles of music which add up to about 30,000 individual octavos (pieces of choir music.)

No one has been updating or organizing the library for almost 6 years. And no one had filed any music for most of that time. So I was dealing with hundreds and hundreds of pieces of music that were in piles...and not in piles according to anything. Just piles.

Sort + Make new piles + School stamp + File stamp + File card + Add to Catalogue + Put in cabinet x 3400 = Organized music library.

BUT, it got done. I knew my OCD tendencies and knew I wouldn't be able to do anything else until the library was organized. The choir is meeting already and I've got almost 70 singers this year.

It rocks. And the other classes I teach are very cool. I didn't realize how much I *wouldn't* miss singing "Six little ducks that I once knew."

Sidenote: I've been in the library maybe 3 times since I finished organizing before school started. Tons of work for what seems like nothing. But that's how OCD works.