so this week, i was mistakened to be a student BY a student. it's been a while.

a girl from student government came in to ask me whether or not i wanted my class to participate in this assembly on hiv/aids. i had locked the doors (to lay the smackdown on the tardy peoples) so when she knocked, i went to open it and said "student government?" she says "yeah" and walks right by me.

so i thought she was going to make an announcement to the class or something. but NO. she walks over to jenny wei, who is going to be with me in my classroom for the rest of the year (hooray!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! friends and grownups with me ALL THE TIME!!!!!!!!!!! more help to beat down the children!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!), and TOTALLY starts to ask her about the assembly.

while jenny hemmed and hawed, i stared blankly for a second, before i was like, "oh. hey. I'M the teacher."

my advisees were howling.
jenny was uncomfortable.
the girl was embarrassed.
and i was wearing jeans and my airwalks and glasses. oh yeah.

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special props to my hotsister for fielding me this past loooong weekend in purgatory. i appreciate her apt's hospitality and my late hours.

special thanks to jos and jeanberry for having the BEST FREAKING BURRITOS and beer with me. slogging through hours of friday night la traffic. no less.

additional props to my bz for having an apple pie bake off with me and letting me distract him while he studied for his greek midterm. lucky for me, he still aced it.