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[Jun. 3rd, 2008|07:54 pm] |
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Things kids have said to me in the last week:
"You look FABULOUS today, Ms. A!"
"I ain't doin' what you say, you, you, you, WHITE WOMAN! You UGLY white woman!"
"Ms. A., you look exquisite today! (Exquisite is a fancy word! It means you look nice!)"
"If you don't stop saying my name, I'm going to change it! I swear to god, I'm gettin' a new one!" |
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[Jun. 3rd, 2008|04:50 pm] |
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You guys!
It looks like Obama will hit the number of delegates he needs tonight! Possibly in the next few minutes! He's gained like 20 in the last half hour! And then we can all move on to the general election! Woo!
I'm glad I skedaddled right after work instead of staying to grade or possibly attempt to find my desk under all the junk, so I can sit and watch CNN like the nerd that I am!
Also, my apartment, in contrast to my classroom, does NOT smell like dead rat. Bonus! |
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[Aug. 1st, 2007|12:20 am] |
This week, instead of regular type Jeopardy!, it's Celebrity Jeopardy!, which I mostly don't like, because the people on it don't know how to play and can't answer the questions. Well, today's was okay. Yesterday's was horrid.
But tomorrow is ALL LAW & ORDER Jeopardy! Sam Waterston (Jack on L&O regular type) and Kathryn Erbe (Eames on L&O: Criminal Intent) and Christopher Meloni (Elliot on L&O:SVU)!
*flails*
Guys, I bet there will be categories of "Law" and "Order"! I can't even say how much glee this fills me with.
Probably way too much! |
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[Jul. 9th, 2007|06:43 pm] |
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Conversation with Ross:
Ross: *successfully names all five rights conferred by the First Amendment* Yes! The Constitution, that's some good stuff!
me: True.
Ross: Those amendments: pretty awesome.
me: Some of us are partial to the 19th Amendment.
Ross: Some of us...
me: Hey!
Ross: Some of us are partial to the 21st Amendment.
me: Some of us are total nerds.
*pause*
Ross: Shut up. |
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[Jul. 3rd, 2007|10:45 pm] |
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Guess who is here in my house! Besides my parents and both brothers (Actually, they're both out at the moment, but in general they're here.) and my grandfather who flew in today!
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=92.3) sasha_davidovna and Noori! Yay! And Noori is a baby and she's adorable! Aww, baby. And Kerry and I talked for a while and that was awesome!
In conclusion: Hooray! |
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[Jun. 3rd, 2007|09:59 pm] |
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I went shopping yesterday and got new shirts! I really needed new pants, but my new shirts are adorable, and I kind of needed them too, so, oh well.
I also got a baby present at the Osh Kosh store. And I took my dad and brother with me. And that was HILARIOUS.
Ross: I don't think humans can actually fit in these clothes. They're, like, doll clothes.
me: Well, they're for babies. Babies are pretty small.
Ross: Not this small!
me: ...
Dad: Would a baby even fit in this?
me: Yes. If it was a baby between the ages of six to nine months.
Dad: Even in the pants?
me: Yes. They are designed for babies.
Dad: Even with a diaper on?
me: THEY HAVE PROFESSIONALS DOING THIS, GUYS. I'm pretty sure they designed baby clothes with the facts that babies are small and wear diapers in mind.
But baby clothes? Adorable. Oh my gosh. I need to find a baby to put some clothes on RIGHT NOW. |
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[May. 30th, 2007|11:10 pm] |
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Thank you note I got from a kid today:
*Picture of me and him around a table. We have books. We also appear to be floating.*
Dear Miss A.,
Thank you for helping me to read and for learning and for counting. I like you because you give me books.
Love, K.
I'm pretty sure that's a great endorsement to have from a kid who came in not reading at all.
I am going to miss these kids. |
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[May. 28th, 2007|11:29 pm] |
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I may never eat again.
We went into the city yesterday, to have dinner at this place where they bring around about a gajillion kinds of meat and they just keep bringing it until you explode. Not a huge draw for me, but they did have a decent salad bar and also there were mashed potatoes and fried bananas YUM. Plus, we had dessert.
Actually, at one point one of the waitstaff dropped a glass and it shattered into a kajillion pieces and about six people swooped in and cleared our entire table and reset it in under a minute and a half. It was like being in a racecar pit. Crazy.
So, then the glass-dropping guy spent the rest of the time we were there falling all over himself to get us anything we needed. Like we were going to be very angry about the dropping of a glass? Clearly, he had never met us before. If we got angry over things like that, we would all be furious ALL THE TIME.
Anyway, they gave us dessert free to make up for the glass incident. Woo, dessert!
At one point Lynn was all, "We'll have to take you to Maggiano's sometime to pay you all back for taking us here!" (Maggiano's is this fantastic Italian place where, if you go with a big group, they just bring you food until you explode. You may be sensing a theme in our culinary choices. May I remind you that I have two younger brothers? Alright then.). Ian responded, with a hint of panic, "Not tonight!" Which, if you know Ian, for him to complain about too much food? Let me put it this way: The only other time I have heard him say he was full was on Thanksgiving a few years ago after we'd all just eaten a huge Thanksgiving dinner. Before which, Ian had gone to his girlfriend's house and eaten a huge Thanksgiving dinner. What I'm trying to say is, the boy enjoys food.
So what did we do today, after everyone practically ate their weight yesterday? We had a barbeque. With potato salad. And cake.
Oh, my gosh. The cake. Was ridiculous. I made it, right, since I'm the baker. It was lemon. And then I went to frost it and my mom was all, "I have new frosting! With coconut in it! Use it!" so I did and things went horribly wrong. First, part of the bottom layer of the cake fell apart. Whatever, I put it back together. But this frosting was just too thick to really spread around, so it tore up the cake some more and I had to use almost all of it just to paste the layers together. So then I put the top layer on, and somehow it was much, much smaller than the bottom layer, so I had a crazy bottom-heavy cake, which would be hard to frost under the best circumstances! Let alone with this frosting! (I think the coconut frosting was so much denser than usual frosting that it weighed down the bottom layer, causing it to stick out like crazy all over the place. That's my theory, anyway.) Plus, the frosting was almost gone. So I had to get out MORE frosting, but we didn't have regular vanilla, all we had was French vanilla, which is kind of yellowish? So I used the weird yellow frosting to cover the top and to try to do the sides, which was hard because they were at two different levels, and then I dumped coconut on top.
It looked like an alien.
But everyone still ate it! And it's almost all gone.
I may never eat again. |
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[May. 26th, 2007|12:18 am] |
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Random scenes from today:
At lunchtime, several grades were on field trips, so somebody decided that the first graders, who usually eat half first lunch and half second, should eat together. Important detail: the first graders, in split shifts, actually sit at the same tables. Just, never together.
So, I walk into the lunchroom at noon today. Picture this, if you will. The whole big lunchroom is set up. There are 15 tables. There are no 5th graders. There are no 3rd graders. There are 80 first graders.
And all of them are trying to sit at the same three tables.
It was PANDEMONIUM. Complete chaos. Hilarious, but insane.
Also hilarious:
There's a first grader who told me yesterday that her birthday is today. It's written on the board of her classroom (which I have been in and out of a good 15 times at this point of the day) that today is her birthday. She is wearing a birthday crown that says "HAPPY BIRTHDAY" across it. She and a classmate see me in the hall and we converse:
D: Miss A, do you know what today is?
me: It's your birthday! Happy birthday, D!
*we pass each other*
D (to her friend): How did she know?! |
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[May. 25th, 2007|12:12 am] |
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One of the most alarming parts about teaching is when my students ask really good, insightful questions that make me realize I don't understand anything about what I'm trying to teach.
Like this week, when one of my second grade groups read a book about money (Did you know the first coins were made in the kingom of Lydia? Me neither.), and it mentioned Fort Knox and the gold and was talking about banks and I don't know all what.
One kid goes, "Why did they put all the gold in the bank?" and I was all, "So they didn't have to carry it around?" and she was all, "Then how could they give it to other people?" and I was like, "That's maybe why they invented money? Like, a note to say, hey, I have some gold in the bank and you can have it?".
Note: at this point I was using a critical teaching technique called "if you don't know something, phrase it as a question and hope the kid will move on". It didn't work.
The kid continued, "Do YOU have some gold in the bank?" and I started to be all, "Oh, we don't actually put gold in the bank anymore, we just use money." and she came back with, "Then what is the money for? If you can't use it to get the gold?"
And I didn't collapse in a quivering muttering heap of "William Jennings Bryan!" and "Wizard of Oz as allegory!", but it was a very near thing.
(Do any of you understand how that all works, because...what is the money representing? Why is it worth anything? Maybe I should ask my brother the econ major? Why don't I remember my basic American history? Perhaps I should go to sleep now?) |
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