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The Happiness Blog
The things that make me happy.
Here are a couple of pictures of things I wore to camp last summer (2012). This summer, I want to document all the crazy camp outfits of the day that help explain why working at camp is the best job in the world! #cootd
Summer has officially arrived with ripe tomatoes and peppers and CAMP!
Tough love
Today I had to have a serious talk with my two favorite students about their mean exclusionary behavior toward the third member of their group for their group project. At the end of the talk, I told them that I wasn’t mad at them, but that I was very disappointed in their behavior because I expected more from them. One of them said,” I think it would be better if you were mad at us because it feels a lot worse for you to be disappointed in us. I’d rather you were just mad at me.”
This makes me happy not because I had to talk sternly to them, but because they care more about my opinion of them than my anger toward them. Yes! Also, one of the kids said that I made a good point in saying that group work is preparation for the real world because someday they would definitely have to work with people they don’t like. I told the student to treat it like a job and they said that approaching it like that will make it a lot easier to work together. Hopefully the rest of their project goes well!
Just got the first issue of Polarity in the mail! I’m super stoked for @maxbemis It’s excellent! #comicnerd #boomstudios #polarity
My grandpa and I went to voodoo doughnuts before we went on a five mile hike today. I ordered bacon maple doughnuts and a voodoo man (chocolate raspberry doughnut). Then, my grandpa leaned over and said, “You know, they have a cock and balls. You should order it because it’s funny.” So I did. It’s the giant chocolate twist thing on the left under the bacon maple doughnut.
I love my family, lol.
High school kids make me laugh
One of my students is going to Vegas with her parents over spring break and was telling another student that it’s going to be boring since she’s only 16. The other student said, “ya, it only gets fun when you’re 21 because then you can gamble and win money.” The first student replied, “No, I’m a loser! I can’t even win at Temple Run! I’ll never gamble.”
Lol
I’m feeling pretty loved at work today. Five students sent me cupcake grams and two students dressed up as me for today’s “twins” dress up day. (Yesterday, they asked me what I was going to wear to work today. Today they showed up in similar outfits with their hair up in sock buns) Happy Love Day!
Parentheses
I love it when I’ve had a feeling all my life about something and have never had the words to express it and then I just stumble across someone else’s words that so perfectly capture the feeling that I’m almost breathless. It’s as if the words are a a finger run across the wet edge of my crystal soul, making my heart sing “me too!” with how much they resonate.
(I just read something Neil Gaiman said about how when he was a kid, he admired C.S. Lewis’ use of parenthesis to speak to the reader and how it always made him want to use parentheses because of the power it gave him. Meee tooooo!)
I saw this book in a fabric store and I had to take a picture #she’sgotthemcitymiles #mib3quote
It’s little things like using “crap” binder clips that make me smile enough to get me through the horribleness that is taking papers home to grade… especially papers that my student self-scored as an F 0_o
