OCTOBER 2007 WEIRD HOLIDAYS

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  • #11422
    Dee from Tampa
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    #66117
    FondaHonda
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    Since the 5th is National Teacher’s Day, do I get the day off? Just a thought. . .

    I’m also thinking about becoming a vegetarian–can I go home now?

    #66118
    2 Popoki
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    Bald and Fee day happens twice this month… maybe I’ll shave my head.. hmmm… nah !

    #66119
    3 kits staff dorie
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    Oh am I gonna have fun with this list!!

    :}

    Dorie

    #66120
    LadyKat of IA
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    I just printed out the list and put it on the company bulletin board. Some days you just need a good laugh.

    #66121
    AZDEBRA 5/27 & crew
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    Loved it, sent it to a couple of good friends of mine ;D

    #66122
    gatakitty
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    FH, can we celebrate “Come and Take It” Day on the 6th by shipping our students off to Gonzales while we drink ‘gritas by the lake?

    #66123
    FondaHonda
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    Ginny–tell me when, babe, and I’ll be there!

    Hope your school year is going better than mine 🙂

    #66124
    gatakitty
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    Hell, no. It’s the AU crap, coupled with the TAKS-M “omerta” that has everyone in a swivet. Stupid paperwork. On top of that, I have to go to Victoria (Region III) SEVEN times this month–two for writing seminars and five trips for the 30-hr G/T training that I should have gotten two years ago. The district kept saying “Wait! We’re bringing it here.” (our district has too few G/T’s to even provide a pull-out program, so we all have to be trained). Now they’re saying “If you don’t get it now, you’ll be out of compliance.”

    Don’t even get me started on the fact that the students are retaliating at the extra pressure, testing, and classwork by pulling out the race card every chance they get, but this issue is too raw for me to discuss right now. That’s why I didn’t even read the Hispanic debate that went on last weekend. It’s cutting just too close to home right now.

    #66125
    FondaHonda
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    I feel your pain, Ginny, I really do. Went home in tears last night (again) because everything is so overwhelming. Another math workshop tomorrow (they are paying for a sub so I can go to a math workshop where they will give me more info. on how to successfully teach my classes, which I can’t do because they keep pulling me out and then, giving us math lessons to teach that have nothing to do with what we’re covering in class. And, not to mention the practice TAKS tests and next week, oh joy, field tests). I have yet to teach 5 days in a row of what I’m supposed to teach. I just want to freakin’ teach my classes–is that asking too much? AHHHHHHHHHH!

    #66126
    gatakitty
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    Here, FH, looks like you could use this…

    Jeff Foxworthy’s Take on Teachers

    HOW DO YOU KNOW YOU ARE A TEACHER?

    1. You can hear 25 voices behind you and know exactly which one belongs to the child out of line.

    2. You get a secret thrill out of laminating something.

    3. You walk into a store and hear the words “its Ms/Mr. _________”

    and know you have been spotted.

    4. You have 25 people that accidentally call you Mom/Dad at one time or another.

    5. You can eat a multi-course meal in under twenty-five minutes. (My specialty )

    6. You’ve trained yourself to go to the bathroom at two distinct times of the day:

    lunch and prep period .

    7. You start saving other people’s trash, because most likely, you can use that toilet paper tube or plastic butter tub for something in the classroom.

    8. You believe the teachers’ lounge should be equipped with a margarita machine.

    9. You want to slap the next person who says “Must be nice to work 7 to 3 and have summers off.”

    10. You believe chocolate is a food group.

    11. You can tell if it’s a full moon without ever looking outside.

    12. You believe that unspeakable evils will befall you if anyone says “Boy, the kids sure are mellow today.”

    13. You feel the urge to talk to strange children and correct their behavior when you are out in public.

    14. You believe in aerial spraying of Ritalin.

    15. You think caffeine should be available in intravenous form.

    16. You spend more money on school stuff than you do on your own children.

    17. You can’t pass the school supply aisle without getting at least five items!

    18. You find true beauty in a can full of perfectly sharpened pencils.

    19 . You are secretly addicted to hand sanitizer and finally,

    20. You understand instantaneously why a child behaves a certain way after meeting his or her parents.

    #66127
    FondaHonda
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    #17–that’s me!

    #66128
    gatakitty
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    I’m 3, 5, 6, 8 (we actually suggested having that made part of the deal for the city to agree to extend its sewer line to the Mexican restaurant across the street from us!), 9-15 and 20.

    #66129
    ailuromaniac
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    I found it quite amusing that Oct 3 is both Techies Day and Virus Appreciation Day.

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