...shots...

Earlier this week my students were finishing up projects and studying for finals.

I was grading those projects.

All of a sudden a student comes over to tell me something.

Miss O'Brien, I got my tetnus shot the same day as one of our football games.  It was crazy, people rammed into my arm and I didn't even feel it.


Football season is in the fall.  It's currently May.

Cool, go ahead and have a seat and finish your study guide.


Students can be really odd sometimes.

...judgment day...

Student:  If tomorrow is the end of the world, I'm going to be really mad.

...I remember what it was now...

So, yesterday a student was a bit puzzled by my outfit.

Student:  Miss O'Brien, are you wearing two different shirts under your sweater?  I mean, you have pink coming out the bottom, but tan coming out the top.  Or is it one shirt that changes colors?  Whoa!  That's so cool.  No, they are two different textures, so they must be two different shirts.


Me:  Yes, they are two different shirts.


Later that day this same student was being interviewed by me and a few other students.  After several minutes of serious questions asked by the student's peers, they ask if there are any questions for them.

Student:  Well, not for you......but for Miss O'Brien.....Have you been wearing that necklace all day?!?  I don't think you were, because this morning I was commenting on your sweater, so I know I was paying attention.  I totally would have noticed that necklace!


Me:  Uhhh...yeah, I've been wearing it all day.  I'm even wearing a bracelet that matches.  


I pulled the bracelet out from under my sweater sleeve.

That's right, I'm still wearing sweaters to work.  Now that the air conditioning is working, I'm freezing most of the time.

...i'm getting old...

Something really funny happened today & I thought, I should blog about this later!


I can't remember what happened.

...belated teacher appreciation...

He missed teacher appreciation week...but I still feel appreciated.

...lost phone...

A student was working in my room after school.  It was approaching the time I was hoping to leave.

Me:  Do you need to call home for a ride so someone is here to pick you up?


Student:  I lost my phone.


Me: Really?


Student:  Yeah, my mom keeps forgetting, no matter how many times I tell her I've lost it.


Me:  Ok, so you'll need to use the phone in the office.


Student:  It's under my bed.  I hear it vibrating all the time.




I'm not sure being too lazy to get your phone after you drop it in a hard-to-reach place qualifies as losing it. What do you think?

...Texas is huge...

Student:  Miss O'Brien, did you know that Texas is bigger than Africa?

I have to turn away because I am laughing so hard.


Student:  I mean, it's not bigger than Africa, but it's bigger than parts of Africa.  It's bigger than Kenya.  It's bigger than Alaska too.


Me:  No, Alaska is bigger than Texas.



Student:  Right, that's what I meant.  I didn't think a state could be bigger than a country.  I mean, Burundi, that is small!


Me:  Yeah, it's just a little thing.


Meanwhile, another student has gone to look at the world map by my desk to verify all of this information.