A very merry unbirthday...

Today as they were writing their notes, Flava Flav came in from left field (as usual...)
"Who's in charge of my dreams?"
me: Me. Why?
FF: No, for real, because I'm not in charge of them, and God's not because I every night I pray that I'll dream about something and it hasn't happened yet...

Since we were in science class I gave him the scientific explanation that it was just his brain processing the events of the day and choosing which connections to keep and which to throw away. Though I'm pretty sure that's NOT what was happening with Daniel and Nebuchadnezzar...or maybe it was... :-p


And this one's a little older, because my half birthday was February 8th, and that's when it happened. A little background: yes, I do sometimes notice when it's my half birthday because when I was a kid I couldn't celebrate my birthday by bringing treats to school since my birthday was in August...thus I celebrated my half birthday at school since I didn't want to miss out on the opportunity to give my classmates a much deserved sugar high. This year, I remembered and mentioned it to my classes as I was writing the date on the board. The conversation (in BOTH 8th grade and 11th) went something like this.

me: Oh! It's February 8th! Today's my half birthday!
student 1: So your birthday's tomorrow?
me: No....
student 2: OOOOH! It's the 16th!
me: Umm...no...today I am halfway to my next birthday...
students: *looks of confusion*

Apparently it's a foreign concept to them...it required a little bit of explaining...:-p