It was a bit of a shit day.
It began to go south when I was the lucky recipient of the most passive aggressive email in the history of passive aggressive emails ever sent by the most passive aggressive woman I have ever met.
Yay me. I’m just lucky that way.
I lost my keys at some point in the day. Here’s hoping I find them again; nothing like being the cause of the whole building having to be re-keyed.
Later in the day, the guidance counselor informed me that one of the grade 8 classes met with her to say they are afraid of me, and that I hate them. Now I have to postpone a perfectly good lesson plan tomorrow and spend the class having a conversation and trying to figure out wtf they are talking about. I think I’ll start by having them look up the word hate on a dictionary website. Actually I’ll have them look up the words random and like while they’re there. To paraphrase Inigo Montoya, I do not think those words mean what they think they mean.
But there was a ray of sunshine, a small gift from an interesting girl.
“I was playing with my Lego stuff with my little cousin over the weekend,” she begins. ”I saw this in the bin, and thought you might like it. It used to be Catwoman.”
“Used to be?” I asked her.
“Well, I had the hair from another Lego thingie, so I changed the Catwoman mask to the hair from the thingie. And I think it kinda looks like you.”
She holds out her hand and shows me the little Lego mini figure, a Catwoman with red hair. I can’t help but smile.
“Thank you so much! This has totally made my day better.” I tell her. She gives me a big smile in return, and she hugs me.
As she turns to walk back into her classroom, she adds that the figure “used to have a whip, but I didn’t think it was very you.”
With that she closed the door, leaving me out in the hallway, smirking to myself. And thanking all available deities that I didn’t have to come up with an age-appropriate response to that last statement.
on Oct 26th, 2009 at 8:07 pm
That should be your card capper in Vegas!
It’s perfect. Except it’s missing the whip.
-DrC
on Oct 27th, 2009 at 7:45 am
Haha, terrific. I’m remembering an earlier superhero post… maybe a flaming sword?
on Oct 27th, 2009 at 8:45 am
Yah, that lego Kat could sure use a whip. But then she’d be scary and I’d be afraid she hated me.
on Oct 27th, 2009 at 9:16 am
I hope they all at least spelled your name right.
And keep the smirk…like that Lego lady…
on Oct 27th, 2009 at 10:25 am
Awww that would be the best card capper!!!! What a day turner arounder. You’ll never convince that kid that you dont hate her. Best you can do is find out who she is and just be super nice to everyone else, so when she complains about you, everyone else is like “dude, what’s wrong with you? Kat’s the rockingest.”
on Oct 27th, 2009 at 11:30 am
You Rock Leggo Kat!
The whole class thinks you hate them? Or is it just one bratty kid? Whole class hate is like Waffle Style!!! WTG!! heh. Hope you get that worked out. Weird.
on Oct 27th, 2009 at 12:50 pm
Sounds like your Halloween costume is going to be appropriate.
on Oct 27th, 2009 at 1:07 pm
Awe.Some!
on Oct 28th, 2009 at 7:48 am
Leggo is perfect! You RAWK!
Can I survey that course? I’ll show them what “hate” really looks like. I promise to do so in a non-verbal way towards them. No screaming or insults!
or you could always have them read a waffles post. Now THAT’S hatred!
on Oct 28th, 2009 at 11:11 am
That is a perfect card capper if I ever saw one.