Things didn't begin well. I just couldn't find my keys. I looked all over for them. I eventually ran out without them, figuring I'd find them later. That made me a few minutes late to the Healthy Kids workshop for the teachers and assistants. Fortunately, they started late to give everyone a chance to appear. They were also at the Oaklyn School, in the same cafeteria the younger kids played at during the summer program, so I wasn't going far anyway.
We mostly spent the five and a half hours discussing writing out forms, how to talk to the kids, and how to deal with parents and the kids getting hurt. It's not dealing with the kids that bothers me. I can handle that. I can handle their parents, too. It's listing their bumps and bruises on the forms needed for the state I have problems with. I'm afraid I'll never remember to take it all down. I'm going to give myself a year with the program, since I just joined in May, and see how well I do with this.
We broke for lunch at 12:30. I ate at Common Grounds Coffee House, since it's two blocks from the school. They were busy when I arrived, but I got a table to enjoy my mint chocolate chip matcha tea latte, enormous banana chocolate chip muffin, and a unique round savory phylo dough topped with arugula, cheddar, tomatoes, and balsamic vinaigrette.
Had more trouble when I got home. I couldn't get in! After I found the outside key, I couldn't find mine upstairs. I looked everywhere...until I saw it where I tossed it last night, on top of the little brown doll's table where Dulcie and Carrie the Cabbage Patch Dolls sit. Boy, did I feel silly. At least looking for my keys prompted me to finally make my bed. I hung up the keys in the right place on the big wooden key and went online to watch So This Is College. I go further into this 1929 early talkie school musical with Robert Montgomery as a football star at my Musical Dreams Movie Reviews blog.
Spent the rest of the evening starting my next Remember WENN fairy tale. Maplepunzel is set right after the end of "And If I Die Before I Sleep" in the fourth season. Victor Comstock walks the still-sick Maple LaMarsh home from the station after they help save the When In Rome broadcast. Maple's delighted to be riding the trolley with this smart, handsome guy, but she's less happy when he tells her he can't remember when she saw him in that police officer's uniform during "Some Time, Some Station." She wishes she could have done more to discredit Pavla when Scott and Betty executed their plot in "Mr. and Mrs. Singer." Victor, for his part, regrets that so much of his memory...of his time in Europe and directly after...is missing and may never be recovered.
Victor manages to get her home as the early morning sun rises. She waves good-bye to him from the fire escape of her apartment tower before flipping on WENN. Betty is about to read "Rapunzel" when she slides into bed. She wonders what it would be like to have Victor rescue her and wishes Betty would give Scott another chance and Hilary and Jeff would work better together again. She finally drifts off to sleep...and into a vivid, harrowing dream...
Yep, Maple is the maiden in the tower, Victor is the prince climbing her hair, and Pavla's the witch who imprisoned her in this WENN take on several Grimm's Fairy Tales. I'm hoping this one will take a lot less time than Hilary and the Beasts. It's straightforward fantasy-action-romance, not a slow-burning mystery.
Switched to Match Game Syndicated during dinner. We had double your pleasure, double your Wallaces this week, with Marjorie Wallace joining Marcia Wallace, Bill Daily, and Robert Donner. Brett admits that she'll be gone doing a play starting the week after this one.
Finished the night with the soundtrack from Goodbye, Mr. Chips. The soundtrack of the 1969 musical about a shy schoolteacher who marries a singer isn't well-regarded now, but it does have some wonderful music by Leslie Bricusse. "London Is London" would later turn up in Bricusse's stage version of Sherlock Holmes. Petula Clark sounds gorgeous on "And the Sky Smiled" and "You and I." Though no singer, Peter O'Toole makes a surprisingly good Chipping and even manages to do well with the sweet and charming "What a Lot of Flowers."
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