so it has been a while and a lot has happened. taught science. flooded a lab when i let a girl pull the chemical shower for kicks and gigs. field trips. field mice in my classroom. lots of bill nye the science guy.

now i'm going to be teaching english and while i think i will have so much fun...i'm not sure my stories will be as ridiculous. i mean, i did flood my classroom seconds before a lock down drill.

bill nye? not so much....

i'm loving teaching part time. i only have two classes and there are a lot of great kids in them (even the ones who tried to take the snake out of the cage!) on the first day after going over all the class policies, etc. i had every student tell me their name and something random about them that would help me remember who they were. there were lots of hilarious stories...one of my favs was from a girl who broke her middle finger over the summer and had to have a splint put on it so she was flipping the bird for an entire two weeks straight!

summer, we hardly knew ye

school has started and summer is officially over. i've taken a job teaching science for the month of september while the school tries to hire a new teacher. gone are the days spent sleeping in and watching classic television re.runs.

can't sleep. racoons will get me.

that's right. my biggest fears have come true. a rabid raccoon broke into a local d.c. man's home (via the cat door) while he and his wife were asleep in bed! once inside, it creep ed upstairs, crawled into bed with them and bit him on the lip! i am as serious as a heart attack here folks, it was on the news and everything! the news segment ended by making note of other raccoon issues that have happened in the district this summer including a raccoon chasing small children in adams morgan! apparently summer is the prime season for rabies!

yet another reason why i love being a sub! there was a food fight at school today!...apparently a kid stood up and yelled 'FOOD FIGHT!!!!!!' and NOTHING HAPPENED! (haha how lame would you feel if that was you?) then a few mins later, out of nowhere kids go nuts. food being thrown, administrators blowing whistles! oh my!

then a kid in another class decided to crawl into the trophy case when no one was looking and another student decided to lock it! did you know there isn't air in there? oh yeah, and no one knew where the key was!(they finally found it and freed the poor boy...but not before everyone had a good laugh and he started to panic)the best part of this story is when a teacher, very frustrated, said to the boys 'you better hope we find the key and don't have to break this open! this case is VERY expensive! and you will have to pay for it!!!!' to which the boys replied "aren't you worried about (insert caged boy's name here)?" to which she replied, '.....oh yeah, that too.'

never a dull moment.

my dad literally knows EVERYONE.

today a friend called. this older lady who lives across the street from her mentioned she wished she could 'just hear the good humor truck ring its bell one more time and buy some ice cream' but the ice cream truck doesn't make stops to the little town/village? of waterford....so this friend called to ask my dad if he knew the ice cream man, because he knows everyone. i thought this was ridiculous. of course he doesn't know who the ice cream man is.

turns out he does. he even knows where they live. so he drove over to their house (ice cream truck in the driveway and one in the garage) knocked on the door and asked if they would make a trip to waterford for a little old lady.

they're on their way mrs. jewel.

three, oh it's a magic number

that is pretty much the only thing related to math that i know. thank goodness for school house rock.

(sidenote: i'm subbing for the math dept. for the next two weeks. this is going to be awesome)