just in case you're wondering, the answer is no........no i didn't spend valentine's night by myself, no i didn't eat taco bell, no i didn't watch love actually, and no it wasn't a great movie that i really enjoyed in every way. so, just in case you were wondering the answer to all of those questions at once, that answer is a definitive "no ( Read more... )

....seriously, almost every day something that a random kid does makes me laugh out loud. walking back from the copy room today, i was the only person in the main hallway save a little girl walking towards the bathroom. this is one of the standard open-doors-facing-eachother school bathrooms. it's on my right- her left. she turns the corner in ( Read more... )

man, the spork is like the most perfect eating utensil ever. why don't they make real sporks so that one might buy them as part of his or her flatware set? i guess the manufacturers are afraid that it would decrease their business by 33%. or maybe it's the "high society" folk that want to keep things as complicated as possible with twelve ( Read more... )

i have to start with the standard student teaching story. i was by myself for thursday and friday because mr. folds was in savannah at GMEA. it was rough, but not terrible; there were no real disasters. however, a 6th grade guy came up to me before the last period of the day and said,"my feet hurt." apparently, he had run the mile in PE. not ( Read more... )

i set up chairs and pick up trash between band classes. i found a small slip of paper on the floor near the trumpet section that was folded into an even smaller size. i unfolded it before i threw it away. it stated simply, eloquently, "suck me." what is with these kids? it's as if there's no middle ground. they're either working hard to put ( Read more... )

so now that i've opened a livejournal account, i figure i'll give the therapeutically entertaining odyssey that awaits me a try. what's been goin' on ( Read more... )