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Inspired by Jason and the evil specter of cramps, I took the day off today.  After the guilt (and cramps) wore off, it was like heaven.  I have been so stressed lately; it was so wonderful to just read a book, take a nap, do some laundry, and basically just enjoy some peace and quiet.  And I still have my students’ welcome to look forward to tomorrow.  The kids’ renewed love and appreciation is one of the best parts of missing school.   

In other news, we have some new classroom pets on loan from a student’s family.  The first to arrive were the Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches … about eight of them.



I am rather proud of myself because I finally managed to hold one.  Hey, if an itty bitty first grade girl visiting my room after school can do it, I can too!

Our other pets arrived a couple days later in a big terrarium.  Two snakes, three frogs, and three lizards … all sooo, sooo cute! 

Then, sadly, one of the lizards died on the first day, and the following day, one of the snakes bit the dust.  I spoke to the parent, and he doesn’t know what could have happened, but hopefully, whatever it was won’t happen again.  We’ve learned enough about the circle of life this past week, thank you very much.  I was initially pleasantly surprised to see how cute the snakes were, but I am now keeping a close eye on the remaining snake because, while it may just be my own prejudice, I have a feeling he may be the culprit.  I practically held my breath all weekend, hoping I wouldn’t return on Monday to find a fat snake and nobody else, but, since Friday, we haven’t had any new fatalities. 

The kids have been decidedly naughtier since our pets’ arrival, but I have now threatened to send the pets home if I don’t see a quick return to their usual good behavior.  The no-more-Miss-Nice-Guy threats seemed to have helped.  I told the sub to be ruthless today, so we’ll see.

Well, off to bed and back to the salt mines bright and early tomorrow.

Quote of the day:


Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness.  ~Richard Carlson

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  3. Eeep! Cockroaches! *shudder* Gross!  Poor snake and lizard, better keep an eye out for that other snake, don’t want him eating anyone! Hope your day is wonderful today! And I’m glad to hear you had a good day off!

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  5. Don’t listen to them two weenies up there, keep the snake! rofl. Of course this comes from the mom that let her kids have tarantulas as pets. Well Em did, not that weenie, Allie up there above that weenie MyKi Of course she didn’t say anything to bad about the snake just the roaches. Weren’t those type of roaches in a movie not to long ago? For some reason those roaches look famous to me. Not in the same club as Britney and Paris mind you, but famous none the less. (I hear they had a falling out) Paris and Brit, not the cockroaches.Your little box is still sitting in my living room floor making me feel horrible. I blame Bear, he should mail it. Tomorrow I’ll go downtown and buy a German paper for the class. I’ll try to get one that has comics to make it interesting.

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