Sometimes I wonder if I should be doing stand up.
Here's a conversation I had with a student yesterday, the Friday before Halloween:
Student: "Nancy, don't take this the wrong way, but I had a dream about you last week."
Me: "Really?"
Student: "Yeah...You had horns!"
I wasn't exactly sure how to take that. Oh sure we giggled, and then all day she continued to make jokes about it. At one point, I was goofing around with her and then she said, "You see? That's why I can't have dreams about you!"
Well, at the end of the day, I was sure to have the last word: "Bye dear," I said. "And...sweet dreams!"
Another student, a former student, approached me at dismissal wondering why we didn't decorate cookies when he was in my class years ago. We had just had a sugar fest, and the kids were leaving with their smeary sugar cookies in Ziplock baggies, frosting on their noses, singing "Science Fiction Double Feature." I replied, "Well I must have done something good."
"You did, Nancy. You teached us."
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