Highlights from the Ground

--Recently Reformed Nice Girl came to class with a positive attitude today. So positive, in fact, that she set a goal for herself to make it through the entire class without cursing, AND she succeeded. I was duly impressed.

--Makes Barnyard Animal Noises and Rooster interrupted my lesson on translation (in biology, the cellular process of making proteins) in order to start howling at the imaginary moon. Nobody in the class found this weird. Rooster then started cock-a-doodle-doo'ing. The rest of the students, being the arbiters of propriety that they are, found this completely inappropriate, and we (myself included) momentarily forgot about biology and lost ourselves in fits of giggles.

--In Environmental Science, we each computed our carbon footprint using an online climate change calculator. Several of my students were severely off-task. Approaching them in person was unsuccessful. However, when I admonished one of them via gchat, he immediately got to work. Go figure.

--Dreams of Becoming a Paramedic wore lens-less Harry Potter glasses today. When she took them off for a moment, I stole them from her and put them on my own face. My class had no problem paying attention to me after that.

Adventures on Gchat: January 27, 2010, 7:57pm

7:57 PM Adorable But Slightly Sketchy Student: lat me know if u got the assay
7:58 PM i wrote real fast lol
me: yes, i got it
i can tell you wrote it fast - you misspelled every other word
Adorable But Slightly Sketchy Student: lolzzzzz

Life Without Gchat? No Way!

First day back at school, and calamity has already struck.

Gchat isn't working.

According to Gmail's helpful error message, my internet is experiencing problems, or my network administrator has blocked Gchat. Gmail (and every other non-blocked site on the internet) is working just fine. I wouldn't but it past the School District of Philadelphia to block Gchat, since I think their overall is to ban all fun.

This is serious. I may need to quit my job.

Adventures on Gchat: December 26, 2009, 10:59pm

10:59 PM Adorable But Slightly Sketchy Student: hey miss wassup

me: hi there

11:01 PM ABSSS: wat u got 4 crismas miss

11:06 PM

me: a few books

a pocket knife

and a gift certificate to best buy

and you?

11:07 PM ABSSS: hmm a new girl lol hmm money

me: a new girl?

haha

from school?

11:11 PM ABSSS: hell no lol i dont like 2 date girls from school bcuz dan ppls star talking and i like 2 kip my besnas 2 my self i dont like 4 ppl 2 know wat i do

11:13 PM me: i see

so where do you meet the girls you date?

11:17 PM ABSSS: myspace an on the streets lol


Oh goodness.