Sass

My 2-year old daughter has stopped addressing me as "Daddy" and now calls me "Sassy Clin". She also calls her mother "Sassy Clin". I think it stems from a few months ago when she would say something mean or yell something, we would tell her to stop being sassy. Now that this is my new name, I am assuming that the word "sassy" means awesome. So, here is my list of sassy and not-so-sassy things:

Full O'Sass

• The fact that "Falling Slowly" from Once won Best Song. I saw Once in St. Louis and fell in love with it. When I bought my ipod, it was the first album I uploaded. We listen to it a lot in our house and I don't know if it's a good or bad thing that Millie can sing all the words to "Broken Hearted Hoover Fixer Sucker Guy." It is a fun song to sing while in the bathtub.




• Film Noir movies. I just finished teaching this unit in my film class and nothing beats the February blahs like Double Indemnity. Even better is this unit leads us into our unit on Billy Wilder so I get to watch Stalag 17 next week.




• The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. If you get the chance to see it, take it. It's one of the funniest and most original musicals out there. The script is hilarious. I'm so excited to be taking a group to it on Sat. because they don't know what they're in for. I saw it 3 years ago (standing room ticket for $25) and fell in love with it.


• Apollo Burgers french fries and fry sauce- their gyros are good too.


• The Arabian Nights If my cast can get memorized, I will proclaim it Full O'Sass because it's so different than anything I've directed before and the cast has lots of sophomores- and they're coming along nicely (if they get memorized).


• Bradley's Cyrano de Bergerac. This was a fantastic play directed by my colleague Bradley Moss for the high school. They looked and sounded great.


• The Tudors. Jackie doesn't it like it as much as me, but until she starts her own blog, you'll just get my opinion. 3 sassy stars.



• This American Life. Finally saw one of the episodes as a bonus feature on The Tudors. It was about a Utah painter that paints pictures of the Savior- and his atheist model and his former LDS girlfriend. It was awesome. I think Ira Glass is a genius.



• Parent Teacher Conferences- I have a student teacher so I got to spend time mingling with my favorite teachers and colleagues. Conferences go so much easier when you don't have to talk to parents.


• Everyone going on our New York trip this summer. This is going to be a sassy trip. I don't know what we'll do without one of our shows containing full frontal nudity- but I'll see if I can muster something up. Hopefully it will occur on a subway.


• ABC's production of A Raisin in the Sun. Sean Combs did not embarrass himself and Audra McDonald and Phylicia Rashad were amazing. It was odd that after viewing this production, Jackie and I had a fight about what should be left out on our night stands when company comes over.


• Stephen Sondheim's Company revival. I know a lot of my MDT students watched it and probably thought it was odd- but it's an amazing show, great concept and Raul Esparza is incredible.
  
• My new black jacket that doesn't smell like baby vomit (yet).



• Utah School of Massage Therapy 2 for 1 weekends. As long as I have a competent sheet wrapper (I believe in modesty above all else), this is awesome.
  

Sass-less

• The guy that flipped me off while I was picking up props with my daughter. Dude, I was slowing down because the car in front had STOPPED!


• People that come 40 minutes late to a play to only get extra credit in English class. Just give me your $4, get your program and leave. Don't stay in the auditorium and text your friend the whole time.


• Students that NEVER have paper or pencil in class- and even 6 months into school will ask you if they can borrow one knowing I NEVER LOAN OUT MY PENS!! I have a hard enough time keeping track of them.


• Parents/Audience members that criticize the cost of a school play being $4 or $5 and want a senior or family rate. They don't complain going to see a movie for $7 or $8, but going to see THERE OWN CHILD in a production they've worked on for 3 months and griping about the cost... that's sass-less.