to-may-to, to-mah-to....

A couple of the juniors are currently standing in front of my desk/by the periodic table in order to record their commercial for the element platinum. One of them was holding up colored signs that have words like "shiny!" "hip!" "new!" "now!" "wow!" The thing is...I just looked up and saw that their first sign said "SHINNY!"

Me: is that supposed to say "shiny"? It spells "shinny"...
Girl with a Curl*: What? No, it says "shiny."
Me: No, shiny has one n, that says "shinny."
Girl: No, you spell shinny "S-H-I-T-T-Y"
Me: HAH! I said "shiNNY"!

Oh miscommunications...apparently my pronunciation sounded different to her...:)


*Do you know the rhyme?
"There was a little girl
who had a little curl
right in the middle of her forehead
and when she was good
she was very very good
but when she was bad
she was horrid!"
That pretty much describes her :)

Rodents, illegal immigrants and the mysteries of the universe...

I seriously can't figure out where November went. Yesterday I checked the calendar to see what my weekly chore assignment was...and I looked at the week of the 3rd...then realized it was the 23rd! Sheesh.

Here are a couple of good quotes from my classes last week--
"I Didn't Kiss Her" Boy: What's that on your head?
Dramatic Poop Girl: It's called a bang! What's that rodent on your upper lip?

Student 1: IDKH Boy, what are you? Are you Puerto Rican?
IDKH Boy: Yes.
DP Girl: IDKH Boy! Are you an illegal immigrant?!?!
IDKH Boy: No. Are you a slave?

And in physics we were talking about gravitational interactions between large masses....like the Earth, Moon and Sun.
Drama Queen: Wait... the moon and the sun aren't the same thing?
All of her classmates: What? Are you serious?
DQ: I always thought, like, the sun went down and then, like, part of it came back up as the moon...
Classmates: How did you make it to 12th grade???

Are you a member?

"I Didn't Kiss Her!" Boy (completely serious, as we are getting ready to start class): Miss Book, I joined this organization. It's called "Al Qaeda."
DP Girl: I have a friend named Al Qaeda.
Me: You have a friend named Al Qaeda?
DP Girl: I think so. He's Spanish. And he looks good...

I'm really curious as to what his name actually is...:)

Laws and Love Pills

Ah! Where did the weeks go??? I keep writing things down and then forgetting to post them...now I need to find them all...

Here are a few from physics this past week:

After I had just finished writing a relatively long definition of Newton's Second Law on the board...
Mr. Gas-Ex: That whole thing is his law?? Whatever happened to 'thou shall not kill'?


And today, in response to a question about shooting stars and why pieces of dust/rock burn up when they enter the Earth's atmosphere, from one of the boys. I swear he was talking more to himself than to anyone else...:
"Because it's hot on earth and the earth is full of hot people, like Halle Berry..."


Oh! And today Flava Flav came up to me, held up his container of Sucrets and asked if I wanted any "love pills"! Hah!