Let me start by saying that the student who ‘borrowed’ my favorite mechanical pencil kindly offered to donate his mechanical pencil to me today. He said that he ‘had so many that it didn’t matter’ and that I could keep his. I took this as his apology and decided to end my morning. I will be going to Office Depot this weekend!

So today was wear-your-Laurel-t shirt-to-school day. I finally got my school t-shirt this week and was super excited to wear it today- one less outfit to plan for the week! I go to put it on this morning and well a medium is just not my size in this t-shirt (too big). I had to tuck it in, but I think I looked cute. So cute, in fact that I decided to wear my hair in a ponytail. If you know me, you know I do not veer from the standard straight hair parted on the left side. Needless to say, my colleagues and students were intrigued. Fellow teachers mentioned that I looked very different having all my hair pulled back. My students, on the other hand, simply thought I looked strange. I tried to help them with a different adjective to describe my look than strange. I smiled and said ‘different’ is a better term. After all, I did plaster the sides down and having a massive crease in my hair prevented me from pulling it down and going back to my normal hair style mid day!

The day gets better! Scotty installed a webcam so that he could see me at work and I could see him at home (work too!). I brought a few kids in to frame throughout the day and they were mystified as to how a man got into my computer. Some things kids, cannot be explained!