What do I do besides teach? Ah, that is a strange cart of groceries! I am on hiatus from teaching this week, but many of my duties continue. For example:
1. Get the school's email.
2. Buy more plush elephant hobby horses and an "Aladdin" video. I have cornered the market on $3 clearance pachyderms.
3. Visit a factory to pick up recyclables to use in art projects. Try to get the manager connected with other companies involved in providing recycled items to artists and educators.
4. Go to Sam's to buy a picnic table, bottled water, prunes, dried apricots, and beef jerky for the Castle Fair.
5. Assemble the picnic table. Follow directions. This is one of my useful skills on a staff of artists and actors.
6. Arrange a stage set for introducing the theme of the camp. It is more a visual aid for teaching than a play set. It has a thatched jungle hut, and a table where an elephant, a giraffe, a flamingo, and a zebra are set to hack open coconuts with a machete, Hunter S. Thompson-style.
7. Make giant papier mache frogs look perfectly natural in the lobby of a financial services office.
8. Bid on a video of the "7th Voyage of Sinbad" on eBay. (1958
Sinbad battles Cyclop, skeletons and dragons in his quest to free a princess from an evil magician's spell. To create Sinbad's swordfight with a living skeleton, Harryhausen filmed Olympic fencing master Enxo Musmeci-Greco and animated the stop-motion model to his movements. He then matted the finished footage to Kerwin Mathews' live-action performance...)
9. Have the fun of cuing that video and others for summer camps.
10. Sewing together the thirty-two giant orange felt carrots.
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