So Much Crazy Stuff Happened

Unfortunately I can't talk about all of them, because that would violate privacy laws. But I will tell you the ones I can talk about.

So we had our first lockdown drill today. My Homeroom did not take it seriously at all, but then again when have students ever taken an emergency drill seriously, I know I never did. It's just hard to be the one in the room that's not laughing when we're pretending that there is a crazy person (or what have you) outside the classroom. All that stuff about setting a good example.

I'm super excited to be hosting the sabotuer this saturday, it's going to be so much fun. Even the planning has been crazy fun. Of course I'm the kind of person that loves planning and organizing, and since I'm one of the people in charge I don't have to make sure that everyone is willing and happy with what we're doing. That's really the reason why it seems like I'm an indecisive person, I'm a pleaser.

You've probably already heard that I went to Castle of Choas this week. I really enjoyed it, although from what the people I went with said I can understand why they were disappointed. Since it was my first time, however, I didn't have any preconceived expectations, therefore I had a great time.

Fall break is next week Thursday and Friday. I have no plans so if anybody wants to do anything at all I am up for it. Anything, going out to lunch, watching a movie, driving off a cliff, ANYTHING. I'll be sure to bring a helmit. It will be nice to have the break, that's one of the cool things about my job, I get every state and national holiday off, refer to the title of this blog.

No, I'm Not Tired (he said tiredly)

The Seminar at the dojo, which I'm sure you've heard about from other people (I'm too tired to write all about it), was pretty much exactly what I expected. It was hard. But, I did it, I made it all the way through the main classes, and I was so tired at the end of it (I think of words to say besides tired, but I'm too tired, I didn't even think of the word synonym a few seconds ago). The best news of the evening was that next saturday is a swords seminar, and I'm not in swords so I don't have to go. I'm glad I made it though, and I found out that I really need to do more strength training, because my body is so not used to it. Hopefully I'll be fine by tomorrow for school.

Oh, and before I forget, I went on the field trip, my homeroom is seventh grade. Refer to the title of this blog.

Even though there is school tommorrow...

There are basically no classes. That's right it's parent teacher conferences so that means a very short half-day, on top of that there's a seventh grade activity and eighth grade test for the entire shortened day. But which will I be attending/administering. Well if you've been paying attention you should be able to figure it out (here's a hint it's based on our homeroom class). A million points for the first person to answer without asking me. Refer to the title of this blog (i'm trying it out earlier this time).

I went to a sweet/sour party yesterday, it was so cool, for pictures and stuff go to K La's blog (which once again is accessed though Clarissa's blog, I should have links... I'll do it later). The only problem was that I really love sour and it was sad to eat my favorite candies with the bite. The orange juice was amazing though.

I just finished watching Project Runway and I have to blog about it for just one second so here goes. Kenley is such a fool, she knows absolutely nothing about hip-hop, what was she thinking telling everyone that her outfit was totally hip-hop, even I knew that that outfit had no place in the rap scene and I hate rap (granted I do have a brother that listens to it all the time, so my knowledge of it is probably much greater than the readers of this blog, prove me wrong). The one good thing that came from Kenley designing a hip-hop outfit for Leann was that we got to see the two whitest girls in America try to act black. Badly i might add. But you already guessed that.

Alright, got that out of my system. One of my mexican cousins moved to London with her husband, and all I can think of is "She's going to roger the gogglely." On a side note my parents signed up to be a friend family for new BYU freshmen from other contries, we we're expecting them to be from a latin-american country, but we got a letter the other day about them. They're from the UK, I'm really excited, however my mom is not. In the past when we've watched movies or seen anything with british accents my mom has told us that she didn't understand a word. She speaks english very well, but she can't do accents. It's going to be great.

Since I already typed my phrase earlier in this post I won't repeat it down here. But I can tell you now that I will never do that again, this post just doesn't feel complete without it... Refer to earlier in this post when I told you to refer to someplace else.

Results

We played the saboteur on wednesday evening, and unfortunately I lost. Someone else who reads this blog won instead. The one thing that I can say was awesome was that I got so many other people to use my strategy of focusing on one person (which for me was Shanna by the way). Deny it all you want readers you know you stole it from me.

Here's some shocking news, appearantly I'm most closely alligned with the the Green Party. I share a 90% similarity with their candidate, Cynthia Mckinney, on the issues. I can honestly say that I had no idea who she was before, but since I took a quiz (I'm not sure of the site this instant, look on Cavan's blog (and to look on his blog you'll have to see Clarissa's (woah, did you see that, a triple parenthesis) blog) to find out) I might seriously look into her and maybe even vote for her.

I also helped make a movie this week, The Honor Code Avenger: The Recyklor, look for it in a theater near you sometime in the future ( the very distant future). I love making movies so much, I'm just so surprised we haven't been kicked out of BYU for doing such crazy things on campus, nothing against the honor code of course.

This week while teaching (look I actually talked about it last in the post, maybe there is hope for me writing about things besides teaching after all) I found out that Boy's P.E. has a wrestling unit in it, and when I told everyone else no one found it strange. I guess it's because at my middle school we only played basketball, football, and soccer. I never had any experience in non-mainstream sports, and I hated it. Maybe that's why I've never really gotten into sports (let's face it I'm not a mainstream kind of person), don't get me wrong I'm not blaming my lack of expertise in sports on middle school, but it would have been nice to at least do some kind of sport. Anyways, they won't be starting the unit until november, but the wrestling coach from the High School came by this week to introduce it for two reasons, first since the season is going on in november and he would be very busy at that time, and second because the junior wrestling club will be starting either next week or the week after that.

This is turning into a really long post, so I'll leave you with my famous parting words; refer to the title of this blog.

The School Resource Officer...

Is like the nicest guy on the planet. I was talking to him the other day in the teacher's lounge. He even speaks spanish, he went on his mission to... somewhere (I can't for the life of me remember right now but it was south america), I was a little surprised at first (he's very tall and very white, but he has a perfect accent). Anyways, the main reason I think he's nice is that he always helps us (the special ed department) out. Now if you know me (or even if you've just seen me) you know that I'm not a very strong person, but I am the only guy in the department. The Officer has helped us out on so many occasions, with it's moving very large equipment, or helping to calm down a student that has gotten a little out of control he always comes to lend us a hand. I hope he knows how much we appreciate him. Refer to the title of this blog.

On another topic, I am excited for The Sabotuer 2. In case you didn't know I am the reigning Champion, I just have to choose one person to focus on and hope I get lucky again. Oh and if you're one of the other players, then don't read the sentence that I just wrote, that's my secret winning strategy! Nobody steal it please.

Congradulations to Teresa and Steve, they had their baby on Thursday evening. And also to me, Payday is today!

We finally have a fifth Para!

We have been needing one for so long (well since school started anyway), it's been a little difficult to adjust from last year when we had seven. Last week was the hardest, two people had to take time off, they had arranged it before hand so there was no problem with getting subs, and the subs themselves were amazing, unfortunately there are certain parts of our job like feeding that can't be done by anyone else. So me and the other sub had to switch our schedules around and totally confuse the subs about were to go, but the fifth para came to the rescue, she did need a little training, but I am so glad she is here. And now thankfully all the paras are back.

Tomorrow will be a little weird. Two of the new teachers and one of the paras will be gone for a training meeting at the district. We'll have it totally under control though. Actually one of the new teachers told me I can't be sick ever or else he wouldn't know what was going on. We're using programs that I've had experience with from last year and he kind of put me in charge of it, which is awesome. Refer to the title of this blog.

People also want me to start talking about stuff other than my job in this blog, so I guess I'll start doing that a little.

I need to go shopping, not for anything in particular, I just need to. Shopping for clothes has lost some of its flair for me since I only really get to wear whatever I want on saturdays, so I have no clue what I want. If anyone has any ideas about what I want please tell me.

Running is hard, but I'm really starting to love it. I guess I did get some of my parents running genes. I can go for miles and miles as long as I have some music, frankly without music I have no motivation. Kind of weird I know.

There that's enough branching out for tonight.

Second Week Crazier than the First

If that even makes sense.

I don't know how, but for some reason all of the new assembles and firedrills and anouncements that should have been made last week were done this week. Just when we were actually starting to teach. And the worst part was that the DRP was this Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. Thank goodness all my literacy classes are double in length or we would not have had time to finish it (there are still a few who were absent that haven't even started yet). We also had our very first visit from the officer when a student started throwing things around the room.

Today, during seventh period, was also our very first firedrill, and let me tell you I was running around the school for most of it. I had to help students out, help students back in, help them out again to get on the bus, help students in to get their backpacks, and help them out one last time, oh and I almost forgot that I had to go back in to sign my time card. I did find out right then that I got about a one dollar raise, so all and all today was great, refer to the title of this blog.