Tuesday Tuesday Today

Gold Day lived up to its name today. All of my classes surprisingly went off without a hitch. However, in my first class as students were shuffling in late, one of the groups complained that their team leader was gone on Friday and not in class presently. I told them they were a team (named after the absent girl), and they would have to pick up the slack. In response, one of my smart-aleck kids (a good kid though) promptly saw an opportunity to joke around, and said in a dead on impression of the absent girl "-----'s team! YAY!" Grumbles immediately came from the team with the missing member, and as if on cue, the girl walked in, and said "Hey team! I'm back! Didn't you miss me?" Smart-aleck kid says, "Yay! Go team!" Seeing as they are all friends, I didn't bring up the issue. It was also freakishly hilarious to witness.

I know my writing doesn't do it justice, especially trying to keep some anonymity, but I could barely contain my laughter.


The Ant War Continues

4:03 PM - I killed twelve ants today by hand. I've started to jab at them with pens or pencils during my planning period while I'm grading. I hope the kids don't question why there are random small marks of red or blue pen on their papers.

11:20AM - I think I found their home base. The ants seem to be coming from under the baseboard rubber strip, and conveniently congregated a few inches away from freedom where a bit of snack food had fallen from a child's backpack. I sprayed with abandon using Whiteboard Cleaner. They suffered.