FINALLY. something POSITIVE that happened at school that i can blog about!

two anecdotes:

1. kids saying "crop circles" instead of "crop rotations" during review boggle.

2. i'm really annoyed that i have to rewrite this because our internet just freaked out and didn't save my last super-genius blog. it's never as cool when you try to write it the second time. i ain't like des; i never edit.

anyway, so our house is the only house that is doing mixed advisories. that means that i'll have sophomores and freshmen in my advisory. so the last two weeks, i've been meeting all the freshmen and there's this one kid that is absolutely HUGE. carlos is his name, and adhd is his game. he's a really genial kid, real smiley and stuff. doesn't do crap in class, but he's not mean, and i actually kind of like him, though he's been driving the other soph teachers demented. then again, i love jj to death, and he was suspended like every three weeks last year. hmm ... anyway ... kristin had him today, and carlos was on her last nerve five minutes into class. with 8 minutes left to go (advisory is an hour) carlos puts this other kid justin in a headlock. i found this hilarious. maybe i'm just becoming hardened as a teacher, or perhaps i not-so-secretly want to become a bookie for freshmen fights, but i thought it was SO FUNNY. first of all, i don't really care for justin. he's a liar and liars suck. second of all, my conversation with carlos after class (while kristin was writing the referral) made me positively howl with laughter.

me: carlos, why would you do that? a kid in a headlock? in school??
carlos: he was straight disrespettin' me man!
me: why why why why why? carlos? in school???
carlos: (in a voice 10 decibals higher) hey man! i ain't takin' $h!t from no one man!
me: buddy, i just don't think that was the greatest idea. in the second week of school.
carlos: (in a voice 10 decibals higher than previous comment) he was disrespettin'! i ain't gonna take that $h!t from no one man!
me: do you think you could not do that again? i think you might have given mrs. sanchez a nosebleed.
carlos: (in a voice 10 decibals higher than last comment) well i let go when she said to man. i didn't really have him in a headlock. i just grabbed him by his scrawnyass neck man! *carlos demonstrates the chicken squeeze with one beefcakey hand*

HOWLING, i tell you. verbose, he ain't, our carlos ... but i honestly doubt he had it in him to throttle justin. they did mad dog each other on the way out, which i artfully defused (as the masterful educator that i am) with a "no mad dogging in the haaaaaallwaaaaays ..." booyah, baby.

hungamalarious. or perhaps i just need a little free therapy.