Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Walking Art Project

Dear Friends,
     Today is TuesdaySeptember 132011. The weather today is sunny. I predict the weather tomorrow will be sunny.  The color today is gold. The shape today is a square. The letter of the week is an Ee. This is a big E. This is a little e. Some words that begin with E are eagleemptyexiteggplant, and elephant.
                                                            Love, Miss Glass

Walking into the gym today I was stopped by the owner.  He told me I should check a mirror before working out.  Ouch. Not something you want to hear walking into a gym. I mean I would have joined months ago but I was a little busy learning how to close the achievement gap.  A little more self-conscious than I was 5 minutes earlier in the car, jamming to Jonie Mitchell's A Case of You, I looked in a mirror.

My hair was tied in a knot on top of my head. Pretty standard.  Decorating the bun was a fine tip black crayola washable marker, a clothespin (with R's name on it), and a paintbrush. There were remnants of blue painted fingerprints circling my eyes (habit of rubbing my temples when I'm stressed).  I was wearing a green stopwatch around my neck (my clock necklace).  My once black top had become multicolored from glitter (the herpes of arts and crafts).  I thought I looked pretty good.

Best moment of the day:
Me: "Goodnight Y. I love you. I will see you when you wake up."
Y: "Hey, Miss Glass?"
Me: "Yes, Y?"
Y: "I want to be a teacher when I grow up."

Funniest moment of the day:
*O received a band-aid yesterday because he bumped his leg. There was no cut.
O: looks at me terrified, his band-aid is slowly falling off
Me: "Oh, I'm sorry O. Sometimes band-aids come off. Life is hard."
O: as the band-aid falls off he walks away limping. a group of big kids walk up to him and let him lean on their shoulders.

Grossest moment of the day:
S: "Miss Glass I just woke up from my nap and there's spit all over my mouth and my mat but I have no idea how it got there!"

Goodbye Teachers and Friends,
Miss Glass

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