Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Needed: spring break and a cat poster

I am more antsy for spring break to get here than my kids! My motivation is low, people. I'm talking LOW. I want to get all my stuff done before break so I can relax, move in, paint, nest, explore. If anyone has ideas about how to keep my motivation levels up when I'm more interested in the burn on my ear from curling my hair than the stack of informative papers piled before me, let me know. I need a pep talk.

Today one of my Goals kids was inspecting the posters in my room.
"Miss M, do you have one of those cat posters? You know what I mean - the ones that have the cat hanging by a branch and it says, 'hang in there'?"
"No, I don't."
"You don't? Every teacher has those."
"I guess I'm not an official teacher until I have one, huh?"
"Don't worry about it, I'll steal you one tomorrow."
"No, don't take one from ano-"
"Miss M, I said don't worry about it, I'll get you one. You need one."
"But you can't just take one from-"
"Miss M. You NEED a cat poster."
"But-"
"I'm serious."
"Alright, fine. Just don't tell me who you stole it from."
Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil...

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