Crab Legs anyone?

This is hysterical!

Solid Milk

I brought a cup of milk to work last week as part of my breakfast. It was in one of those big Astros cups you get when you order a Diet Coke at the Juice Box, but that doesn't really matter. Anyway, there were just a couple of inches of milk at the bottom of the cup.
I put it in the small refrigerator I keep in my classroom. Then forgot about it.

Today, I was moving some things around to fit a pan of brownies in the fridge and needed to move the cup of milk. I glanced in the cup, planning to ask a student to go wash it out. The top inch or so? Solid! As in thick, all moves together when you swish the cup, solid! GROSS!

I felt like I'd been a part of a science experiment and didn't even know it.

3 months nothing...then an email?

So I had a date with a guy mid December. We didn't know each other very well, so it was a lot of conversation, laughter and all the "get to know you" type questions. All in all it wasn't a bad first date. A few days later I went out of town for Christmas. We talked a couple of times while I was gone. Upon my return to our great city, we scheduled a second date. The morning of our date, he calls me to cancel because he was moving that weekend and wasn't finished packing yet. No problem. I'm an understanding girl.

Then I don't hear from him again. Period.

Until this weekend. He emails me with no explanation whatsoever for his silence. Just chitchat about what has been going on in his life.

Seriously?

I've rediscovered an old flame

Yes, it's true. I admit it. I played Tetris all the time in college. I haven't played it in years and just found it on the internet. A free site! So I realize I've lost a few of my skills. But it's still fun nonetheless. Practice, right?

Gotta love tetris!

Tomorrow = Field Day

Well, really it's called Academic and Athletic Olympiad, but that's just a fancy shmancy term for Field Day. We're not allowed to give a test or quiz of any kind or in any other way take a grade on anything.

Students have tie-died shirts in art class over the past week. They are allowed to wear them tomorrow, and they enter the school uniform for the last month of classes.

We're to play academic games in the classroom for the first half of the day. At 11:00, we go outside to the track and have lunch. Parents are invited to come, and students don't have to stay with their teacher. (A headache in and of itself.) We have over 1,000 students at our school. There is certainly not enough parking, so parents have to park in the Kroger parking lot two blocks away and walk. They arrive late, because they're not expecting that much parking trouble. Students are crying because their parents aren't there, and they don't have a lunch.

After lunch, comes the "athletic olympiad" part of the event! There are inflatables, popsicles, scooter races, beanbag tosses, orange relays (you know the one, where you carry it in your neck and have to exchange it), musical chairs, etc.

Basically, the kids will have a blast and bounce off the walls all day long.

I will have a headache.

Weird Dream

I don't dream often. But my dream last night took place in a restaurant and regarded a vat of marinara sauce. A roach had been found in the sauce by someone in my group. I made a statement about wasting an entire pot of sauce. A person from the restaurant commented that they would only throw it out if we could find the roach's babies in the pot! It became quite a lively discussion!

Why can't I dream about white sandy beaches, frozen drinks, and volleyball games?

What's the deal?

I went to bed about 11 and my alarm went off at 5. 6 hours of sleep. Not bad, right? But for some reason today, my eyes are gritty, my body aches and I have an, "I'm tired!" headache. I want to whine. Instead, we have people coming to school to film our instructional strategies today. We have no idea which rooms they are going to enter. They are here from 9am-1pm and we have a list of things we're supposed to be doing for that entire time!

I just want a nap.