why me?

it's snowing again. :-P it wouldn't be so bad if i didn't have to drive in it...

and while i was teaching today, the kids were all insanely hyper. the preschoolers, when they felt off-balance, would just grab a hold of me. i wouldn't mind so much if they would just stick to the arms or neck...then during free time, a few of them decided that my ponytail looked like it would be fun to use to pull me down...down as in under water. sure, i could take on one of them at a time, or even two, but three? i'm outnumbered, and i've got three little kids weighing probably about 50 pounds each going at me. i only weigh 120, and i don't have very good balance either. so i got dunked. and they wouldn't let me up. they were laughing...until i got up. then they scattered. i'm sorry, i don't care how cute you are, but when i'm running out of air and you're holding me underwater by my hair, i'm not going to be very happy. then in my other lesson, my single student "forgot" how to swim backstroke, and freestyle, and also every other safety rule that we've gone over in class. (don't dive unless i'm around, and he dives in when i'm half the pool away; walk, don't run, and he runs anyway...you get the picture.) something today has every kid wound tighter than a wind-up toy.

but i got good news! i took the PSAT in october, and i got my score back today. the highest possible score is 240. i got.....*drum roll* 201. i could have done better...i find out whether i'm in the 55,000 students who go to the next level of the national merit scholarship program in september. but hey...i got a better cumulative score than 96% of other high school juniors who took it, 98% of the critical reading section (72 of 80), 90% in math (65 of 80), and 93% in writing skills (64 of 80). :-D and the SAT prompt they give for practice is one of the ones we already did an essay on. :-D

-enna