And the winners are…

Brian and Danica are the winners of the Animal Caption contest! Email me your address and I’ll send you a list of books to choose from. Congratulations!

My kids are currently in heaven at the moment. I’m visiting my mom and they are in Grandparent Utopia. My husband and I plan to run away and leave them for the day (at least, that’s what we’re telling them…bwahahahaaaa…). It’s strongly tempting to go catch a flight to, I dunno, Indonesia or some tropical place. :crazyjumping:

Last night I was grading papers, an act which can often put me in a foul mood. While I love twelve-year-olds, they have selective hearing. As soon as I passed out this quiz, I told them to put their full name, date, and class period on the paper. About half of them didn’t put anything more than their name. The others put their first name only. I deduct five points for this because I get sick and tired of looking up which class period “Bob” is in. Maybe I’m neurotic. But I want to screech and tear my hair out and yell, “What are you thinking? I just told you to put your name, date and period! Gaaahhh! Five points off!” And remember that scene in “A Christmas Story” where the teacher is glowing and saying, “You get an A plus, plus, plus, plus!”

Yeah, I’m the teacher who wants to yell, “You get an F minus, minus, minus!!”

I also had a nasty gram from a parent who chewed me out for assigning her daughter homework detention, claiming that I didn’t give her daughter any of the make-up work, yadda yadda. Um, her daughter was absent September 8-12. The work I was referring to was from YESTERDAY and the previous two assignments. Sheesh. Quit shooting the messenger, people.

Perhaps I need a career change. Like…I dunno…maybe bestselling author? :typing: Yeah, that has a nice ring to it. :book: