Coming to Visit

I've decided that the board coming to visit your classroom is like Mom coming to visit your house.

One of the board members told me that he's coming to visit tomorrow morning during first hour. First of all, that's when I work out all of the kinks. I only have 17 kids, so I can pull it off without too much trouble if we have technical difficulties, etc. Then I realize that he has to sit at my desk. Now, you must realize that I never even sit at my desk. The only time I do is during quizzes and tests - which is about once every 3-4 weeks or so. Well, now my desk is clean - not dusted (yet?), so at least he can have a clean place to sit and think that I'm an organized neatfreak. Hopefully he'll bring donuts to the teachers' lounge.

Wait, school board members are worse than Mom. They don't love you as much and they don't cook you food when they come.

Pick-up lines from my sophomores:
"My heart stops for you."
"My friends told me to stay away from you, but I'm a non-conformist."
"You can be my self-reliance."
"Man's naturally good, but who said anything about girls?"
"It is your dearness only that gives everything its value." (Thomas Paine)
"I want to suck out all the marrow of life and that isn't possible without you."

And a few rejection lines:
"I want to suck out all of the marrow of life, but you have caused me to choke on the bone."
"If I can stop one heart from breaking I will not live in vain. That heart, however, will not be yours."
"I want to suck the marrow out of life, but you're hogging it all."
"Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity; you're just too complicated."

Incident of the day:
During "club" (our end of day time for committees to meet on non-chapel days; people not in activities have study halls) today, I started "google chatting" with my friend Cherilyn. Suddenly I hear a bunch of whispering. I hear, "She's talking to a guy!" So I asked them how they knew, and they said, "You're smiling!" Apparently I only smile when I talk to guys...

Homecoming + Valentine's Day + teenagers = hormone overload.

And now the school board is coming.