Now you're just somebody that I used to know.

Right now my life consists of marking, followed by quick marking breaks. This is one of them. After this post, I'm going to go to bed, so I can wake up early and mark some more before the start of the school day. School is CRAZY this week. I have extracurricular stuff 3/5 evenings, and tonnes of marking, and the planning, the never-ending planning. Oh, and a student teacher arrives this week. Busy, busy, busy.

This weekend was fun. It was great having catch-up time with old friends and bringing them to a lot of my favourite Toronto haunts. I brought them to my gym, my mani-pedi place, my gelato place, my fave Middle Eastern restaurant (on belly dancing night!), and my fave burlesque bar (who knew I had one of those?). The last isn't that shocking. There's just one dancer on the bar. The music was pretty good too. Anyway, the weekend was good.

While I've been marking, I watched the show "The Sing Off" for the first time. It's on it's third season, and I've never watched even though my beloved Ben Folds is one of the judges. Anyway, I follow him on Twitter, and he was tweeting, and I thought "hey! that'll help my marking!" so I tuned in. It's a singing competition between a cappella groups, and the singing caliber is quite high. I really enjoyed it. I'll be marking with it next Monday, I'm sure.

I also randomly came across this song tonight, and I'm addicted to it. I think the harmonies in the latter half of the song are great, and the singer's voice reminds me of some singer from the 80s/90s (I think) but I can't put my finger on who. I dunno, maybe Sting? Listen and help me on this! I think the video is neat too. And of course, emo songs like this are always good in the fall.



I guess the moral of this story is that even when I'm insanely busy, I always have time for new music.

Oh, and I'm counting down for the end of this week because I'm seeing Dan Mangan on Friday! Woot. And then I'm going to an author roundtable at the International Festival of Authors on Sunday, but I still have to finish the book for it! Argh. This book is great, but I just can't seem to finding any reading time. It's sad that I haven't finished a book in FOREVER. Sigh.