5-star day

I found this flier this morning, taped to the lockers in the cafeteria. I work at a school full of dweebs and the socially awkward, so the school has a reputation for being "that way". In an effort to poke fun of itself, the yearbook kids are calling this year's theme "an acquired taste." When you publicly in a high school call for submissions on the theme "an acquired taste", you should not be surprised when someone writes "swallowing" on the flier.

Later as I was passing out a pop-quiz to my 8th graders one of them challenged me to the school's traditional bout: the arm-wrestling contest. The stakes were high: if I lost, I couldn't give them the pop quiz. If I won, I would give it. Luckily, I have hidden strength and so took ten seconds out of my day to completely decimate him, and then passed out the quiz.

In the afternoon I dimmed the lights and fed my AP students Cheez-Its on paper towels and while they lay on their desks, read to them Milton Friedman.

Days this good are completely unprecedented so I'm glad I can document them publicly.