D'Oh!

I've dragged my feet on this long enough.  It's time to update--it's been over a week!

Honestly, I don't remember a whole lot about the week.  I have some funny stories from the middle school, though.  :)  Here's a good one: We're in the library so the students can check out and/or read a fiction chapter book.  A student comes up to me (keep in mind he's an eighth-grade boy) and says, "Miss, will this work?" I look down, and he's holding a comic book, so it won't work.  And this is what I tell him: "No, that is not long enough or hard enough; it will not work."

As soon as I said that, I wished the words could come back in the mouth!  I couldn't--still can't--believe I said that to a middle schooler!!  He, however, got upset that the book wouldn't work and just said, "Aww man!" and walked away.  So.  Relieved.

What did I learn from this?  I really need to think about what I'm going to say before I say it.  Yeah.  A work in progress, to say the least.

Other stories from the past week involve my speaking without thinking, but you'll have to ask me about that--I don't think I'm ready, for professional reasons, to write that out so openly yet.