get to work!

Mike and I watched a few minutes of the Andy Milanakis (sp?) show tonight. It was very funny. In one bit Andy was wore a giant cardboard suit and shouted at people on Wall Street to “get back to work!” He “wasn’t paying [them] to to eat cereal and walk around all day!” He asked them for the time and then told them that it was not three o’clock but rather “CRUNCH TIME!!!” It was hilarious, but also very very sad. Because you see, Andy was actually shouting at me through the Mac Mini. That’s right, my days of eating cereal and walking around are over. I went back to work yesterday.
Luckily it was a planning day, which meant a quick trip to the work room to grab some metal brads turned into a loop of pleasantries and idle gossip exchanged at every classroom I passed. Took about an hour. Never found those brads, though. Still once I hunkered down in my room I got a lot done. I moved my professional texts from a cupboard to a prominent shelf beside my desk to show my room parents (and myself) that I got some facts to back me up. I got some information! A little pretentious maybe, but it makes me feel good. Maybe next week I’ll frame my Masters Degree and hang it above Number Corner. That’d show ’em! Ugh.
Today the kids came back. I expected them to be Hyper 2 the Xtreme!!!- bursting with stories of vacations and visits from Santa. Instead I had 22 zombies who had spent the past two weeks sleeping until noon and playing video games. Like me! They were not quite ready for that 7:50 Morning Meeting. Let’s just say that there was a lot of spontaneous lying down on the floor today. By me. I mean, by them. I’m sure tomorrow they’ll be back Full Throttle to the Maxx!!!, but today I was grateful for my little zoned out brain eaters. They look pretty cute when they’re sleepwalking.