Image: Foot about to step on a banana peel. Photo by Adriano Gadini. Public domain.
Oy, oy, OY!
I love teaching. And I’ve learned to love teaching online. But some days the tech just drives me bonkers. Today was one of those days.
I wound up scaring the dog with audio feedback howl, dumping a bunch of students in the bit bucket, having to split the recording in two, and losing my train of thought. I am never, ever, going to hit that particular button again!
When I have a very frustrating day with my computer (BAD computer! BAD, BAD, BAD computer!) there’s a song I like to sing. It might have something to do with the fact that I can never remember anything but the chorus, and the chorus begins “Blow up yer TV.”
After I sing the chorus a couple of times, I can’t resist listening to the maestro himself playing it, which always cheers me up.
Are you familiar with Spanish Pipedream, by John Prine?
(Yeah, yeah, I know that bit about Jesus sounds funny when a rabbi sings it, but this song heals my soul.)
What do you do to cheer yourself up from frustration overwhelm?
Dear Rabbi Ruth Adar. I need to confess, no pun intended, I read your article yesterday and laughed every time I thought of your heading. Thank you 🙂
I love this post! Thank you for sharing!!
Thank you for continuing to follow and read, Jen! I love reading your blog, too!
Thank you, Rabbi Adar! I nearly contacted you yesterday because I fell into a bit of a rabbit hole with Haskiveinu’s reference to “satan” (in a line that is sometimes deleted and sometimes edited!!). I’ll post what I’ve come up with in a few days, and then if you can clarify anything, I love constructive criticism!! Take care, jen
Ooooh, I’m looking forward to that discussion! Let’s do chat about it!