Honesty usually works for me. I'm going to be honest. I have no idea why I decided to start this. I was spending my usual Monday night of TV and doing nothing productive after an action-packed day of teaching. After stumbling across a few blogs, I realized that I wanted to jump on the cool kids' bandwagon. This is the birth of my blog. Like I said, cool people write blogs. I want to be cool.
I work at an elementary school. One of the more stressful moments of my day is the 15 minutes where I help with kindergarten lunch. Nothing says ambiance quite like cafeteria food (which yes, by the way, they do still serve mystery meat -- they just don't call it that) and 200 screaming 6-year olds begging for ketchup. I spend those 15 minutes scuttling around the lunchroom, opening juice boxes and encouraging two students NOT to attempt a conversation by speaking through the ears of another student back and forth through the inside of his head. (No joke. That happened last week.)
Today I was a little off my game. Everywhere I walked, something broke and/or fell. Putting my water bottle on the table? Missed the edge by a good foot. Turning around to walk? Crashed into a bookcase. Lunch was no different. Little girl asks me to open her container of cocktail weenies? Cocktail weenies fly everywhere and, as fate would have it, fall to the floor. So what did I do? I gathered the cocktail weenies, ran to the staff bathroom, and washed them off. (A disapproving mother looked on.) She'll be fine. I mean, we're dealing with the swine flu. A little cafeteria dirt? Meh.
