The time change and then a holiday? Plus a day out for
meetings? This week has totally thrown me for a loop. A day late and a dollar
short, but whatchya gonna do?
I bought Sawyer his first The Magic School Bus book and he loves it. He's already super curious about the human body and it's many functions (today he asked where exactly he was born from... I explained and he was like "oh, I thought it was your mouth.").
I started Carmen Maria Machado’s short story collection Her Body and Other Parties, and it is so
good. The writing is beautiful, but there also these little surprises in there,
like a sudden outbreak in a story you think is going to be strictly about
relationships. Her memoir will definitely be on my wish list.
Our Thanksgiving plans suddenly changed for the better
recently, and I couldn’t be happier.
I am a person who almost passes out several times a year,
but never actually does. It’s who I am, and it’s fine. What’s not fine is that
it almost happened in front of my students the other day! That lovely feeling
of being super hot, sick to my stomach, and lightheaded started creeping in
during second period as we were getting things organized for a test and I had
to plop myself down regain composure (probably the result of a
decongestant/coffee for breakfast combo). Luckily the kids didn’t notice, but
it got me thinking- what would be worse, throwing up or
passing out when kids are in the room? I think anything involving bodily fluids
would be far grosser, although knowing my kids they’d call for a very
unnecessary ambulance.
My mom was in town last weekend and it was so fun. We
went to Downtown Disney for lunch one day and the beach the next. This weekend
we have a Kid’s 1K at Universal Studios on Saturday and a playdate on Sunday
morning, all subject to change if the ominous “there have been cases of
vomiting” sign on my son’s school door comes to fruition (seriously, is there
anything more terrifying than those health alert signs?). The kid next to Sawyer
got sick and the teacher reassured me she had Lysoled everything down. My
response? LYSOL my child, too. She doesn’t really get my humor though, so we had
ourselves a slightly awkward moment.
Jonathan Safran Foer is on the Armchair Expert podcast- this is very exciting news. I’m slightly
scared of his new book, about global warming, just because I think it might
depress me even more about the current state of our planet. I’ve seen him speak
before and I found him to be very witty and a little sardonic, so it will be
interesting to see how Dax and Monica balance him out.
A student recently tried to bribe me with dozens of bags
of Baked Flaming Hot Cheetos to give his class an easier version of the test
they were taking. IT DIDN’T WORK.
I read his climate change book and I think you should read it... don't be scared. It's actually a really interesting and philosophical take on it all. About why and how humans respond to serious situations. Climate change is unique because it's going to be catastrophic, but it doesn't FEEL that way (death by a thousands cuts), and his book is all about how odd people are in how we respond to slow burn disasters like that, psychologically.
ReplyDeleteYou ponder whether it's worse to throw up or pass out in a classroom full of students. I am a teacher as well - actually, I teach at a university so my students might be a tad older than yours, chronologically speaking perhaps /jk/ - and last summer, I was teaching summer school and, having a bad reaction to some surgery recently undergone, ended up vomiting into a recycling bin right outside my classroom. So it wasn't *right* in front of my students, but I'm sure they could tell what was going on re: sound and the color of my face when I went back in immediately after it. Absolutely no one said anything until right at the end of class when one of the more honest little darlings said "Man. You look like shit" and left. Little darlings. :-)
ReplyDeleteIt was going to be a flip-up between passing out and vomiting, and vomiting won. If I had ended up passing out, I wonder if my students would have been like yours though: too quick to call an ambulance and make the whole situation even more theatrical! :-)
I highly recommend you do neither of these though. ;-}