Funny Student Comment

I gave a test yesterday and I had a student come in at the end of the day to make it up. When he was finished I asked him how it went. He said, "I'm not gonna lie...it was easy." For some reason I thought that was funny. Maybe it was just the way he said it. I assured him that I wasn't offended that he thought the test was easy. My job is pretty awesome.

Happy Constitution Day!

223 years ago the Congress responsible for revising the Articles of Confederation ratified the Constitution of the United States. Here are a couple of videos I appreciated on this day.



I love John Wayne, the Duke, I wish more celebrities were like him! I think we have forgotten that with our freedoms come responsibilities.



Penn & Teller are pretty awesome too!

Exploding!

Did anybody else's head explode today while listening to President Obama's press conference today. The whoppers this man tells, he obviously thinks we are stupid and can't look around us and see what is really going on in this country under his administration. The nerve of this guy, geez!

Obama Defends Handling of Economy, Acknowledges Voter Frustration

And yet he blames the situation on the previous economy when actually it is the Democrats who have controlled the House and the Senate since 2006. He plays fast and loose with the job growth numbers during the Bush Administration. I don't know how he calculated the growth from 2001-2008, but I am pretty sure he averaged all the numbers per year to get the slowest job growth since after World War II, or whatever it was he claimed. As I recall, job growth was considerable until 2006, and then we lost millions of jobs in 2008, offsetting what we had gained previously. This is why it is important our students understand mathematics and statistics!

Marcel the Shell with Shoes On

This video made me giggle, several times...

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A little update: School has started and it is going to be a busy year this year. I had a great summer with my family and ended up staying in Utah for most of the summer. I got a very pleasant surprise this summer when I got a grant to help me pay my graduate school tuition. Thanks Boeing! I also unexpectedly, although not so unexpectedly for some, renewed my annual pass to Disneyland, so if you have a hankering to go the Happiest Place on Earth, let me know :P I'm looking forward to the fall season, especially putting up my Halloween decorations. And I have a new favorite to add to my Favorite TV Shows List: Bones. I love how literal she is and doesn't have any inkling of popular culture or how to read any type of body language.

Staying Up Too Late?

I don't know why, but I really think that Red Eye with Greg Gutfield is pretty darn funny. Could it be because it is on at midnight (3 AM where they are) and they or I am slap happy? It can sometimes get crude, but the unpolitically correct or silly statements they make on that show are just golden. I guess it is my guilty pleasure. It will be a good thing when daylight savings changes and it is on at 1 AM because I definitely probably shouldn't be staying up that late.

First Day of School

I so did not want this summer to end. I had so much fun and wanted to continue living the life of leisure. Especially after visiting the Huntington Library earlier this summer. Anyway, I digress, the first day of school was a lot better than I was expecting. I am now teaching 8th grade as well and 9th and I gotta tell ya, I love 8th graders! They are so willing to participate and some of them actually like the subject and want to be there! I am looking forward to the new school year and all the new things I am going to learn. I just found out my grade for my second summer class in grad school and I got an A! So far my GPA is PeRfEcT!!!

Psych

My new favorite TV show just managed to incorporate a Remington Steele and Laura Holt reference. (Probably why it is one of my new favorite shows!) This show is the ultimate in '80s shout outs. Check it out.

Psych Website

How Old?

I was tagged by my friend Maria. The rules were to go to your fourth folder and find your fourth picture. This is the pic...it is of the North Rim of the Grand Canyon. I think it is a picture of my mom, my niece Kaitlyn, and me?

I tag Sara, Aimee, Chrissy, Jill and anyone who wants to do it, just let me know that you have posted it on your blog!

The Story Behind the Flowers

Today I got flowers, but not for the desired reason. It all started yesterday. In one of my classes, a student has started having an attitude and pulling things to try to get into trouble but he actually isn't doing anything (for example, he will pretend he has his phone out, but he doesn't really). Yesterday, he mouthed the phrase "mother ..." I don't think he realized he mouthed the whole thing, but that is something I do not tolerate at all. So I told him he had a 30 minute detention. He denied he had finished the word, but I held firm. I wasn't really going to give him the detention, I just wanted him to sweat for a little bit.

Well, a couple minutes later, I look up from my paper and he is giving me the bird. I just told him he had an hour detention and got a referral sheet. I informed him that I hadn't been intending to even give him the first detention, but then he flipped me off. I wasn't mad at him, he had just made a poor choice. I take the referral to the office and leave on the assistant principal's desk.

The day goes on and I forget about the incident. During the last period of the day I check my messages and I have a message from the mother of this student apologizing profusely and ensuring he would be talked to at home. I get to class in the morning today and there are flowers in a vase and an apology note from the student. They gave me a chuckle all day. Sometimes I love my job.