2009-03-06 - 9:33 p.m.
It's nice to find out the ones you like like you too

Work was fine today until my fourth block. They made me feel like a horrible teacher. It was an exhausting, frustrating hour and a half.

I went home, worked out, showered and then went back to school for the musical, ostensibly to support the little buggers who had so abused me during 4th hour.

I sat down and another teacher approached me, talking about how she'd just gone up to a kid who'd made fun of her hair in a ponytail early in the day. Completely unrelated to his teasing, she'd gotten it cut that afternoon. When she saw him, she pretended that she'd cut it just for him.

As she was telling the story to me, the woman next to me goes "Oh, don't let that Sophomore #6 give you trouble."

Turns out is was his mom. I happen to have that kid in my class, too, and I love him. He's just one of those kids who you know the other kids think is cool, but it doesn't go to his head at all. He's smart and actually tries in my class. It's very refreshing. Not only that, he's respectful, which is a foreign concept in that school.

So I say, "Oh, don't worry, #6 is very good in my class. I'm his English teacher."

"Oh! So you're Miss Ninja!" she exclaims. "#6 loves you. You're his favorite teacher!"

And just like that, I felt better about my bad day.