09.15.07
School, Week 2
Week 2 ended much better than week 1. For starters, the kids seem to have realized that I am actually in charge, and they are not. Big improvement!
As I mentioned before, we went to see High School Musical performed by a children’s theater. It was a pretty fun trip. The little girl sitting next to me said “I don’t understand a lot of the times when you were laughing.” I wanted to reply, “Well, that’s because they just referenced A Streetcar Named Desire so that the grownups in the audience wouldn’t want to lobotomize themselves”, but instead made up some teachery junk about reading and being culturally literate. There were a few extremely cheesy moments, but what can you expect from a play whose main message was “We can all be friends”.
One of my students brought me a dozen farm fresh eggs on Monday. They were from her own chickens! Apparently apples are out, eggs are in.
SPECIAL SCHOOL PROJECT ALERT! We are studying the United States in social studies. I’m hoping to get a postcard from each state describing the geography/culture/important stuff about the state. That’s where you come in, gentle benevolent reader! If you would like to help out, please reply either in the comments or send me an email and I can email you the school’s address. Thanks!
And now for non-school news. On Friday evening I went to hear a knitting humor author speak. Yes, there is such a thing as knitting humor. Yes, only knitters get it. It was very entertaining to sit in a room with at least a hundred other knitters and laugh at jokes about maurading crocheters. That’s pretty much the moment at which I realized that we’re a bunch of freaks. At least we have a good time. I’ve been inspired to start knitting socks. There is a sock class starting in December, which apparently teaches you to knit two socks at once on the same set of needles! I am intrigued. If I’m successful, you can probably guess what everyone will be receiving for Christmas next year. 
Mary said,
September 16, 2007 at 7:49 am
you are so funny - and extra knitting-nerdy. i’m glad week 2 was an improvement!
Miranda said,
September 17, 2007 at 6:17 am
Oh fishy . . . that’s all I have to say about that.
I’ll hook you up with Jersey and NY, and I’ll probably be hitting up Minnesota and CO this year too. I’ll see if I can get my friends here to give me cards from their states too.
Nick said,
September 17, 2007 at 1:01 pm
You know, in my less culturally literate youth I only knew the Simpsons parody of Streetcar, and to this day whenever I think of it all I can hear in my head is Ned Flanders singing the “Stella can’t you hear me yell-a” song.