Children are a Hoot and a Holler

Things that are awesome about my job:

1. I get to play 16 hours a week. It's almost like being a part time kid. Getting back to my roots. Mm, yeah.

2. Last week, two of the boys at the middle school who have nicknames for each other decided they wanted to give me a nickname. Ratchet and Captain Harmony tried to learn things about me so they could find a nickname that would fit. After deciding they liked the military theme they had begun with the Captain, and finding that one of my top interests was music, they settled on calling me "Lieutenant Symphony."

3. On Monday I got to sing Kelly Clarkson, Hannah Montana, HSM, and Avril Lavigne songs with my middle school girls -- karaoke style.

4. Monday night at the elementary school we performed 17 major veterinary surgeries on 12 beanie babies, 3 stuffed animals, and 4 humans. Our tools for this included a pair of scissors and a plastic hammer, among standard medical instruments.

5. Tuesday night at the elementary school we formed a marching band and paraded our plastic drums, bells, tambourines, and egg shakers by the thousands around the gym for 45 minutes.

6. Tomorrow night we get to have a Girls Only pajama and movie party at our office - complete with all the slumber party essentials - but I still get to go home at 10 and sleep in my own bed. ;)

7. Last night we played a form of the game "Rock, Paper, Scissors" that was instead "Gorilla, Man, Gun," in which the Gorilla beats the Man, Man beats the Gun, Gun beats the Gorilla, and if you Tie, you Die. One of our students, who tends to be fairly emotional (much like the kid in the pool who cries when a leaf comes near him - usually unnecessary and over-dramatized) burst into tears in the corner because of the illogical nature of the fact that the "Man" is found superior to the "Gun," and he had thought himself on the winning side of that equation in his partner match. (Exclaiming between sobs: "She lied to mee....the man can't beat the gunnnn....*sobs*).

I'll try to remember to post more of these awesome things that the kids say and do, it's almost too fantastic for the blogosphere to be able to handle.