1. When you get home from work, it takes 2-3 hours for your volume to come back down to normal level. I hear that eventually you don't have a normal level.
2. Every good story you have starts with "One of my students..." or "In class today...."
3. The line of tempra paint/marker/boogers you have across every shirt you own.
4. The knee-jerk reaction to fix every problem around you:
Perfectly Capable Adult Friend (PCAF): "Ow! My finger hurts"
HtC: "Here! let me get you a band-aid!"
PCAF: "But it's not bleeding."
HtC: "Well sometimes you just need a band-aid to make a boo-boo feel better"
PCAF: "uh, thanks, I'm ok."
HtC: "So I take it you don't need fairy dust either?"
5. Not going anywhere without thinking, "oh! my students would love/hate this!"
6. When at a dinner or event, people always introduce you to the kids, and then SEAT you with them as if:
a) Kids think teachers are sooooo cool (they don't)
and
b) you can entertain kids at any given time because it comes natural to you (it doesn't)
When really, you showed up in the only shirt NOT covered in tempra paint and boogers to enjoy some adult conversation, having rehearsed every story you have that doesn't start with "One of my students..." or "In my class...."
5 snarks:
I would never seat a teacher at the kid table, thats what Grandparents are for. _-Kristina
there needs to be a like button....
i like!
I think some of this applies to your fellow social workers....especially number 2.
Also, bandaids only work if you are not allergic to them. Lesson learned this week.
-Sam
That's what fairy dust is for. DUH! :)
The kid's table thing would piss me the fuck off. I think I would start telling stories about the time I got drunk on white wine and vomited on my boyfriend's mattress, or the time my husband and I were doing it in the kitchen and he threw me up against the door and we broke it. Or teaching them curse words in foreign languages.
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