Miss Virginia Former

Nuh-huh. Too graphic, gory, and embarassing! 😳

Now if you’ll just tell me it was ALL recorded at the House of Blues in N’awlin’s, I could die a happy woman.

Hey, where’s my basketball-wearing Teddy Bear from the Charlotte concert with the necktag that read “Please let Teresa dance on stage”? I know he saw it, because he read it out loud on stage, and after the concert, even asked me if the Bear had been mine 😆

I won’t even ASK about the status of my request for “Down the Road Tonight”, made circa 1989-1990 at William & Mary Hall. Betch THAT one didn’t get laminated!!!!

Had they even invented laminating back then??? Or (you veteran teachers will know this) did we just run purple copies on the old Riso machine, then cover them with clear Contact paper 🙄

MAN, is it good to be back home where I belong!!!!!!

Vic,
I guess that’s why you never answered when I kept yelling “Hey Vic” over the crowd.

Sorry about not posting in a while. I’m in the middle of changing schools (going to a Charter school to teach Kindergarten). AND I had minor exploratory surgery a week or so back, so I haven’t been online in a loooong time.

I taped the show at home. I was in the best possible place to watch Bruce, but apparently I was invisible to the cameras….despite the fact that I was wearing a bright blue tie dye dress and my MVF hat. By the way, Si. I have bruuuce.com printed on the back of the hat. Just tryin’ to do my part for the site!!!!! 😆

I was there! Where was everybody else??????? I even had my “Miss Virginia Former” hat on (which was signed by Bruce AND Ricky……..Also tossed Bruce a basketball with a request for NOTT.

Okay, I finally figured out why Bruce isn’t playing the Biltmo’ this year. It’s because all the stellar acts signed up to play outshine him so in talent!!!! Here’s the line-up:
Aug. 1 – Chicago
Aug. 3 – Kenny Rogers
Aug. 4 – The B-52s (remember ‘Rock Lobster”???)
Aug. 10 – Chris Isaak (how would you like to see him jam with BH?)
Aug. 11 – Clay Aiken with the Asheville Symphony (well, I’m not a native North Carolinian)

I mean, with acts like these (no offense if there are some true fans out there—I myself cut my musical teeth on early Chicago), how could Bruce compete??????????

DAVID!!!!!!

NOW you’ve just gone and ruined everything!!! I had this idea where we were all going to wear shirts printed with our song requests, so that when Bruce called for requests to be put on the stage, we could all just hop on up.

Oh well.

On the EXTREMELY bright side, it looks like it may just be me and Victor there…..together…….handling balls!!

Vic and David and Treah and Lola and China Doll, and etc, etc,

I’M still planning on going to Raleigh.

Sorry no new posts lately, BUT:

— it’s the end of the school year, so I’ve been swamped with testing, assessments, report cards, etc. (yes, even in second grade) 🙄 AND

— I have finally gotten fed up with the FUBAR of public school badly enough that I am leaving it in favor of the less-stress/less pay of quasi-public school (charter school) and will be teaching kindergarten come this fall SO

— I have been having to pack up twelve years’ worth of cr*p from my old classroom to take over to my new classroom, so, OF COURSE

— in having an IV put in my hand for an extremely minor test, the (little, bitty, baby) nurse had to go fishing for a vein, resulting in a massive hematoma on the back of my right (typing) hand, 😥 THEREFORE

— it’s taken me three days just to get this much typed out (pant, pant), NOT

— that I’m looking for sympathy or anything……… 😉 😉 😉

So, what’s new with ya’ll?????

Here’s my take….

“Opie Cunnigham” asked Bruce to write a song for the movie “Backdraft”. TSGO was it. I see it as a woman left behind as her man goes out on a dangerous task (firefighting, Viet Nam, Iraq). The “sad-eyed sisters” I see as her comrades-in-arms who are also waiting for their guys to come home. The “man in the long coat, with his long list of victims” is the chaplain/officer/whoever who comes to deliver the news that her man is dead. The sad-eyed sisters feel bad because they’re relieved it wasn’t them…….. this time (sad-eyed sisters go walking on along). “The curtain falls down” on her life, but, as we know, “The Show Goes On…..”

Perhaps my thoughts are a bit jaded, though. My father was in Viet Nam, and we lived in Navy Housing in Virginia Beach (Oceana Naval Air Station). I can never forget the panic that would hit the neighborhood when the Navy Chaplain’s car drove through. Everybody prayed he’d stop before he got to your house, or that he would drive on by. When he did stop in front of a house, all the other families would go back into their houses, and “let the curtains fall down” so as to give that family a chance to receive the news without an audience. But every one of those families were on their knees praying thanks that it wasn’t their man. Thankfully, my dad came back in one piece….at least physically.

Why, thank you, David. You know, I’ve always relied upon the kindess of strangers……. We’ll have to see who else will be staying in the hotel, and do a little meet-up on the side (perhaps room 714? Oh, I’ll be waiting). I’m still looking for someone who would like to carpool (bless her little kinky heart). I’m at exit 140 on 40/85 (come on back now, hon). Seems a shame to drive all that way alone (poor little ole thang) when I KNOW there are some FANatics in Raleigh/Chapel Hill/Durham.

By the way, I’m thinking of changing my “handle”. Any thoughts or ideas…….?

Thank you!! I also would have given several body parts to have been there — what with being a Bruce fanatic AND a history buff. But my only baby graduated from NC State on the same day. PLEASE post anything you can!

Which one(s) do you want…Prozac, Zoloft, Cymbalta, Wellbutrin, Effexor, Lithium…(it’s been a bad year…) 😥