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)

i am old and uncool.

my nightmare came true.

so a few months ago i had this nightmare that i was teaching and i kept quoting one-liners from movies like 'wedding crashers' and 'tommy boy' and the kids were just looking at me like i was a total loser.

this is exactly what happened friday. it all started when i had THE worst class ever...kids were making out. throwing things across the room. yelling. walking out of the classroom. and i was trying to hold it together - oh yeah, and at this point i haven't even called the role. so i start going down the list and no one is answering

me: katie owens? katie? owens? beuller? ferris beuller?
kids: (blank stares)
me: ferris beuller?
kids: he's not here.

moving on, i see things are being thrown from two different regions of the room. i say 'i saw something coming from over here...and over here....not so much here, not so much here but RIGHT HERE' again, i get blank stares....i mumble something about tommy boy, start the dvd and sit at my desk....

i mean, i know these are older movies but...c'mon tommy boy is a classic!