I'm Alive...

What a slacker.
What a blog slacker that is.
Thanks to Exile and Shora, who were the only ones who showed any kind of concern as to where I was. This will reflect greatly in your Christmas gifts.
I'm kidding.
I wish I was off doing something exciting..but I was building a fence and 'horsen' around at the barn's fall fun day for the kids. It didn't actually feel like a weekend since we were up early and working, and then Sunday was spent travelling and meeting the brother in law's new girlfriend. Now it's back to the regular work week.
It started off great. Pffft.

My class is a bunch of cuss monkeys.

They were dropping the word "shit" like it was going out of style. It started at lunch with the teacher on duty. She tells me of an incident and I thought that was the end of it. Then over the rest of the afternoon, I heard that damn word several times, until finally I snapped. The whole class was getting a lecture (I'm famous for shit that comes outta my mouth when I lecture by the way).

The jist of this lecture (judge me if you want) was that we know better words then to use cuss words, it makes us sound uneducated and silly when we swear, and I expect better of them. I'm disappointed that I have to tell them not to use language like this and "is that what you really want to be doing when Jesus comes back?" And the next person who swears will be calling their parents to tell them the kind of language they have been using....end of lecture.

20 minutes later and we are happily working on filling out our planners when (an insanely bright and chatty) student comes to my desk. He flops his hands down to his side and sighs "well I guess my father is just an uneducated bum." This is the kind of kid that would go home and say "guess what? Mrs. S says you are uneducated". I started to quickly try to get him to see what I really meant, and to re-iterate that his father was indeed a very educated man. I tell him that we all swear once and awhile when we are really angry or upset, which doesn't make it right, but it happens. I say that it's just extra bad if someone uses a swear word every other word in a sentence. He says, "Ohh that's my dad. He says F-this and F-that when my brother pisses him off and then he swears at my mom". Yup. I gave up. I let him return to his desk. We'll see what he says. I can't wait! LOL

Oh yes. And before anyone says it. I know that lecture makes me a total hypocrite. I swear like a trucker. So maybe I sound uneducated. I don't care. Fuck you.

Have a good one! Tonight's the first pre-season game of the Leafs...they are so going to kick Buffalo's ass.

A girl can hope.