Things That Don't Make Me Happy

1)Being awake at 6am on a Saturday for no good reason.

2)This stack of papers that need to be graded. Any volunteers?

More Things That Make Me Happy!

Last minute trips to Hawaii. Woo Hoo!!

Things That Make me Happy

My nephew meditating at the Salt Lake Temple. Apparently he is a Mormon-Yogi

My brothers new puppies Abby and Axel. They're crazy but so very cute.


Speaking of The Family, I love The Godfather. Something comforting in always knowing where you stand.

I also love this scene from this weeks Big Bang Theory The embedding won't work right now...so just click the link and then come back.

And the last thing that makes me happy for today, is this guy....

Be Like Barack

A record of an actual conversation that I had with a student today while I was holding my door open, just a few seconds before the tardy bell was to ring.

I looked over to see a student dancing around in the quad, singing some unrecognizable song-ish type chant and basically flailing about aimlessly. I said, "Hey (Insert student name here. I don't want to use his real name and you wouldn't believe me anyway.) Why don't you go to class and learn something?"

From the top of his lungs he shouts, "I don't have to learn anything. I can be president now!"

"Awesome. Good luck with that."

Democracy is Dead

I am apparently a part of the greatest travesty of modern justice. For some reason, my students are under the impression that democracy extends itself into the hallowed halls of my classroom. I am not sure how, or why, this delusion has caught on. Nevertheless, I felt the need to squelch this line of thinking today.

In one class my students are taking a quiz. In another, they are addressing a writing prompt. No less than 4 times today have I heard some variation of, "How about we do______ instead," or, "Can't we_______?"

I think what kills me is the utter look of shock on their faces when I inform them that I didn't get bossed around by teenagers when I was a teenager, and they can go right ahead now and realize that I am not going to start now that I am 30.

"That sucks. Not fair."

"You're right, my dear. Not fair at all. Deal widdit."

Amazing. Did they think that was going to work?

Ahoy Pirates!

Things I LOVE-

Free Internet!! I don't know which of my neighbors finally got wireless internet, but THANK YOU!! It's about dang time.

Refund check for an overpayment on a long forgotten credit card.

My official Vote by Mail ballot. (I don't really love this one...not this year)

Itchy and Scratchy

I have an unreasonable fear of lice. It is one of the main reasons I chose not to teach elementary school. It's also the reason that I can never completely relax and lean back in movie theatres.

Needless to say, while I was getting a pedicure today and looked over to witness two workers picking through one another's hair with tweezers, and occasionally finding little treats, I nearly crapped my pants.

On the inside I was screaming, "WHAT THE HELL? LICE? GIVE ME BACK MY FEET AND GET ME THE HELL OUT OF HERE!" On the outside I just quietly leaned forward, pulled my hair into a ponytail and ached for the end of the longest pedicure in history.

Now that I am home and showered, I am pretty sure that my scalp is nearly bloody from the scrubbing, and I can't shake the image of a permanently lice infested existence. Maybe I am crazy, but the thing that disturbs me the most is the fact that they were just sitting there, in the waiting area, picking and digging at one another. Right there in the open! They were always so clean and orderly but not today. ..I realize that I may have an overactive sense of shame for such things, but what happened to the days of doing things like this in the back room!