Quotes

Quotes from today:

"I am sorry I am late Ms. Schmidt, I was breaking pencils on my forehead.  Watch!"  (5th grader, SC)

"Have you ever watched that classic movie, I Love Lucy?"  (4th grader, RA)

"Oh, that is the sprinkler, that was soooo 1990."  (4th grader, JB)

3 boys are walking together--2 Hispanic, 1 Black.  Hispanic boy was talking about going to a banquet tonight with the other two and turns to me and says "You are not invited to come because you are not Mexican."  Um..... 

"Ms. Schmidt, when I close my eyes, all I see are zombies."  He then proceeds to close his eyes and start pretending to shake. 

Max......grrrrr

So this lovely Saturday morning, I woke up of course at 5:30a.m.  and could not fall asleep.  This is unusual because during the work week, I usually never want to wake up.  So I went to take Max out to go to the bathroom.

I went to put him on the WIRE tie-out that I have in my back yard and I went to see what the wind damaged last night.  Well immediately, Max saw our neighbor and went chasing after him.  I then went chasing after Max where I ran through the neighbor dog poop and it squished between my toes.



I now need to go back to bed.

MI2 (My Idiot 2)

I need to fill in a bit of background knowledge before this next story.  I have had this aide this year who is, lets say, "technologically challenged."  She has had some trouble with email, printing, word processor, turning on computers, and using google.  I have tried to be patient with her inexperience, however after showing someone how to bold a word over five times, my patience is done. But, I digress. 

The past two days, the school email service has not worked.  The tech coordinator has been on the phone constantly for two days trying to figure out the problem.  No one seemed to know what the problem was because no other schools were having this problem.  Today, my aide gets a phone message saying she needs to call the tech coordinator.  Come to find out, someone had hacked into her email and started spamming, thus overloading the system and crashing the server.  The woman who cannot use word processor crashed a server.....now that is talent.

I discussed with her how yes, this happens and it just means she needs to make her email password stronger.  Her response, "oh so I should not leave it on the default of 911--the password everyone is given at the beginning of the year?"  **Face Palm**

Bomb threat

The custodian was outside mowing yesterday and saw a Wal-Mart bag with several half empty pop bottles inside of it.  He immediately called the principal, who panicked, and called the School Resource Officer.  He came out to investigate before calling the bomb squad because people at school were starting to think it was a suspicious bag and with everything else that has gone on in society lately, they were not taking any chances. 

Well, the officer came to check it out and came inside the building a few minutes asking if anyone had done a science experiment with Coke and Mentos.  We said yes, but we had cleaned up the mess that we had outside.  He then brought us outside and sure enough, the "bomb" was instead our science experiment.  Thank goodness he had asked us before calling in the bomb squad.