i'm no ellen

Last night after I had spent a few hours on homework, I sat down to catch up on about a week's worth of DVR recordings. I spent the majority of the night watching episodes of Ellen Degenerous. When Ellen comes out on stage, the crowd goes crazy and claps and cheers for her. She frequently comments on how she loves her job where people applaud her everyday. Then she says that she bottles it up (or something like that) and then sends it "right back" to the audience as a way to say thank you.

As I watched about 3 episodes of the show, I realized: Wow. What would it be like to have a job where people clap, cheer, and applaud you every day? I know I sure don't get those kind of reactions at my work.

And then, because I had been thinking about it all evening, I dreamed about it. In my dream, I walked in to the classroom (one of the 6 I have) and instantly got a screaming, raging crazy reception with my students clapping and cheering my name. And then I went to school today and this is the kind of reception I received from a girl in my 3rd period:

The girl walks in late and tells me she's late because I told her yesterday we were going to the computer lab. (Mind you, I never said this and it could possibly be that she was high, seriously, and thought this). She then proceeds to argue with me (until I just walked away). I begin passing back some papers and I hear her say to a neighbor, "I hate this class. I hate Mrs. Hubert."

Luckily, I was in a good mood and I knew she didn't want me to hear those remarks, and so I just walked up to her, smiled and said, "Thanks so much! I'm so glad I know how you feel about me now." She was stunned and smiled in embarrassment...and then she tried backpedaling her remarks by saying, "Well, sometimes it's ok, Mrs. Hubert, sometime you're ok."

I laughed about that all day knowing that, while I don't get the applause and cheers like Ellen Degenerous, I got to totally shock and surprise this girl because of my quick and surprising comment.

I played a fun game with the darlings today and brought about $20 worth of candy as incentive to actually participate. It went almost perfect and the kids seemed to really enjoy it. (The reason why it wasn't 100% perfect is that I caved and had a moment of weakness and indulged myself in a tiny bit of candy when school was over...I crashed my no-candy diet. However, I determined to keep going and told myself not to be so upset if I fall back every once and a while.)

I heard wind today that I will be getting a room (for sure) next year. It's the best news ever.

Tonight we are heading to some friends house for dinner and haircuts (our friend does the best hair jobs ever!). I'm excited to be doing something on a Friday night besides homework.

Happy weekend!