Wednesday, March 01, 2006  It SO Feels Like Friday  But it's
snot. I don't have a cold, I'm just kidding.  Today at school we
had Speech Contest Day. None of those links are in chronological
order, but oh well. We always have speech contests on Friday,
and the kids are always forewarned. Today, we changed it up, and
the kids didn't know when they arrived it was going to be speech
contest day. It made for a charged environment.  Since we were
one teacher short, and the boss is more swamped than I've ever
seen her the whole affair was left to the supervision of Judy
and I. And our keyword was "streeeeeeetch," so their little
speeches would fill up the whole class period. Horseplay was
quite tolerated.  Today, I was manned with a stick. To hit the
kids. And hit them I DID, I bashed their little heads in! Nobody
should give me a stick. People get hurt. Brains get smashed.
I'm joking.  Mostly, I played the game of defending "Jelly-
Space" which was an invisible line I'd drawn on the floor. Kids
who weren't reading