Henry.

My nephew has a dwarf hamspter that has lived much longer then expectancy. The darn thing has to be like almost 3 now (they are supposed to live a year). Supposedly it's a girl and Henry (my nephew) has given her 4 different names over the past years. Her newest name is slinky and usually Henry cannot handle how much he loves her and is always smothering her. So the other day he came out of his room with slinky cuddled in the palm of his hand, he held her close to his face and looked in her eyes and said "OOohhh Slinky, I just love you so much you're my little 80's butt rocker!" We asked him where he heard butt rocker and he didn't know.
Today Henry's twin, Jake, was grounded to his room and managed to talk Henry into staying in there with him. So Henry eventually came out dressed as Santa Claus, but Jake had dressed him. He stood in the living room and eventually said "I'm getting paid to do this. A dollar fifty." If you're grounded you might as well make the best of it. The best part is that Jake didn't even have the $1.50 to pay Henry!

If you wanna laugh you just gotta hang with kids. They are ridiculous.

On another note.. I'm super tired. And its a phase of sleeplessness I fall into often. Usually from certain circumstances. Since sunday night I have had a really hard time falling asleep and then waking up too early. I do think it's because from saturday night until last night I did nothing but work. I covered a shift at the mexican restaurant, sunday I worked on the yearbook, monday I taught then did the yearbook for 4hrs, yesterday I taught and did the yearbook for 5 hours. I made no down time for myself. It's not that I didn't want to, I just happened to be on a deadline and the material was handed over late.
I enjoyed the projects but sheesh I was wasted today. Last night I slept about 4 hours but was in bed for 6.
The problem I'm having is that everything I have been stuffing inside to process comes up right when I lay down because it's the first chance I give myself to do so. I don't work well that way.
I feel like I will forever learn about the way I process because it's different with everything.
Tomorrow is a field trip. Have I mentioned I'm not a fan of them? Well... not at our school at least. Maybe if the kids weren't such high maintenance it'd be a different story but leaving the school takes double the amount of energy as it does to stay in the classroom and I already max out in the class.
I love my job. I love those kids. But I am very relieved to soon work in an environment where I won't intentionally be hurt by kids.