Once again, I am struggling to find time due to the pressures of my career. I’ve been singing for twenty minutes before going to bed. In this post, I also share my experience with the popular meme, “Six Seven.”
Github Study Respository
Link to my Github repository containing music notes.
General Session Records
| Date Session | Duration (Minutes) | Public Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-13 | 2 | Singing Eidelweiss. |
| 2025-10-14 | 22 | Sliding lip trills and low notes. |
| 2025-10-15 | 20 | Sliding lip trills and low notes. |
| 2025-10-16 | 20 | Sliding lip trills and low notes. |
| 2025-10-17 | 20 | Sliding lip trills and low notes. |
| 2025-10-18 | 20 | Sliding lip trills and low notes. |
| 2025-10-20 | 20 | Sliding lip trills and low notes. |
| 2025-10-21 | 60 | Music lesson with teacher. Study of vowels, singing while smiling, falsetto, singing with speech voice. |
Memories to Share
Six Seven
I teach middle school and there’s a popular meme going around, “six seven.”
The kids say “six seven” frequently and make a hand motion like they’re comparing the weight of an imaginary object in one hand against the weight of an imaginary object in the other hand.
If you’re wondering what the meme means, it means exactly that, “six seven.” That’s it. Nothing else. Six seven is six seven.
Feel confused? So do all of us adults. It’s a kid thing. If you don’t understand it, just keep at it. You’ll get there.
Anyway, my middle schoolers come up with all kinds of ways to insert the meme into the conversation.
Most of the time anytime the word six or seven appears in a sentence, my entire class in unison will slowly declare, “ssssiiix … ssssssseeeeveeen.”
One of my favorites ways the students use the meme has a little bit of a backstory.
In our class, each student has a binder full of their assignments. The binders are split into sections, such as writing, reading, science, etc.
One of the sections in the binder is “Civics.”
I told my kids to insert one of their assignments into the civics section.
Did you catch that? I didn’t on my own. But my students did.
Civics section.
Say it out loud.
Ciiviiics seectiiooon.
You’ll never hear it the same again.
Anyhow, I try not to repeat the six-seven meme that often, because let’s face it, that would be the quickest way to ruin it.
In fact, at our recent teacher’s staff meeting, we all joked in our mockingly evil villainous voices about how we could ruin the meme for everyone by using it until we tanked its coolness.
We teachers have the ultimate power! We can make anything that is cool uncool with but a glance of our all-powerful-eyes!
Even though I try not to use the meme, it has still invaded my head space.
Today, while I was trying to explain some minor detail about a common error on homework assignments, the meme slipped out:
“I keep seeing this same error on the homework assignments. About six or seven of you did this thing where… Oh no… No! No! Stop! That was unintentional, I swear. You children have ruined me forever! Stop asking me how many of you made the mistake. It was only five or four. Stop it! Leave me alone!”
My pleas were drowned out by dozens of teenage voices repeating the words …
You know what they are by now.
Ha.
Good luck, dear reader. Good luck.
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I used Google’s Gemini AI to help me create and manage my sql database for tracking relevant data. For example, I used Google Gemini to write a script that exports my singing data records from my custom PostgreSQL database and format the data as an HTML table.
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