B Day August 24th

Freshman Study Hall: I arrived early today and some former students came to visit. Somehow they managed to place cat stickers throughout my room and even on my computer without me noticing. Vengeance is a serious thing to play with while awaiting college acceptance letters. Anyway, back to study hall. I honestly can't for the life of me imagine what these children are studying for. I would imagine finger painting and macaroni pictures would be the norm, but yet they seem engrossed and even mildly sentient. Today one of the more aggressive freshman demanded books. Once more I reminded him that we go next week. He looked sad and irritated. I took pity on him and he returned with textbooks that his teacher will probably never have him use. The effort seemed to placate him and he curled up at his desk and went to work on some project or another. Honestly I'm not sure they even gave him real textbooks. At any rate he seemed calmer so I'll allow it.

U.S. History regulars. I'm not certain but it seems someone in that class may have tampered with my hand sanitizer. It seems sort of watery. Perhaps they added water? Whoever the little terrorist is, I believe karma will come for him when the next plague does and he can't sanitize his hands. We finished the causes of the Civil War and then looked at various Civil War artifacts. After that we played a game of Kahoot. In the same spirit that the Aztecs played games to the death, often using the decapitated head of their opponents, so to did this class play Kahoot. The rivalry and the shouting was only matched by the attempts to mislead their peers. Curiously someone seemed to hack the game. We started the game with 28 students in the room. By the end according the to the Kahoot statistics we had well over 90 participants answering.

U.S. History regular was similar to the above with the addition that they have homework due on Friday. I have yet to introduce the Petraitometer. This will happen shortly and then their misdeeds will catch up with them.

I have given up asking for an elevator key. Instead I will continue to walk up the stairs like a suburban Sherpa daily. My calves will be as large an ostrich's. I believe this will help me chase down small things I can add to my diet. I will need the added protein for walking up and down the stairs daily.