a high note

I was afraid of this. Rachel made Sol and I watch "Michael Jackson Night" on American Idol while we worked on the nursery, and while watching I got kind of attached to the contestants. I loved Danny Gokey singing "PYT." I would like to be married to Arkansas Kris if he were 8 inches taller. And just like that, I'm into the show. I'm invested.Yesterday I reminded Rach that Idol was on tonight. Today I had her double check the DVR to be sure that it was set to record. And now I'm sitting through two hours of toe tapping Grand Ole Opry songs with Randy Travis.

From the couch judges here at 7916, we have several favorites. Still Danny Gokey. Definitely Kris. Also Matt. I like "Amy Winehouse" American Idol contestant, Megan Joy. Rach says she is a bad dancer, and we think she could probably wear better clothes. She likes pink hair Allison. Sol laughs everytime that Randy says "Anoop-dog." When asked to pick a favorite, he won't because "there are a lot of ballers. It's tough." And Copper the dog doesn't understand why we aren't paying more attention to him.

Good news: I have room on my TV schedule for Tuesday. SVU can easily be DVRed and watched at a later time. I don't know what I'm going to do when I actually live here and a lot of my shows don't START until 10 pm like SVU. Rach and I are at risk. If we start watching all of each others shows we will watch approximately 22 shows combined. We may have to reinstate the TV rubric.

About the jobs...
I've talked to people at Loudoun County (two principals), Prince William County (one principal tomorrow, one vice principal today), Fairfax (Rachel's principal), and Arlington County (recruiter and social studies director). The moral of the story: it is a waiting process. I need to follow up, send some thank you notes and check back in a month. There will be very few early hires so I'm waiting. The last interviews with Arlington were fabulous.

We picked out colors for the first floor. Colors later. We also painted the nursery, and it is sock monkey theme. Photos posted later.

One more day here...