1. A couple of weeks ago we ran into the fancy grocery store near us (not where we usually shop) and I saw this rainbow sherbet in the freezer. It is one of the only times I've ever seen lemon, orange, and lime sherbet in any of the grocery stores in Ohio. This is my absolutely favorite flavor combination, which I fell in love with at The Chocolate Factory - where my dad used to take us as kids. I don't even think they carry the flavor any more. When I'm visiting family in Wisconsin I can often get the Cedar Crest version from a local grocery store, but that brand hasn't made it's way to Ohio yet. I have sometimes considered trying to get dry ice so I could bring the Cedar Crest variety home to Ohio, but now I don't have to!
If you are a certain age, you probably remember the food fight scene from the movie Hook, which I always think of when I eat rainbow sherbet (even the inferior type w/ raspberry instead of lemon).
2. I get served a lot of teacher content on social media and this post from Bored Teachers made me laugh out loud this past week:
I 100% remember classmates' desks being emptied out like this. I also remember the satisfaction of cleaning/reorganizing my own desk. I don't think my desk ever got dumped, I would have been mortified. And I do have a hard time imagining anyone doing this in 2024. Public humiliation was much more common in the 80s.
3. For the second year in a row we had late February tornadoes in our area. Fortunately there was no damage for us, just a lot of little branches/twigs all over the place. Our weather radio/phones/sirens went off around 4:45 a.m. last Wednesday, which was an interesting wake up call. Lots of blurry students at the middle school that day. Michael's bedroom is in the lower level of our house so we just let him keep sleeping. Basement bedrooms might see more spiders than the upstairs variety but at least you're already in your tornado safe space! (If it had been really close to us we would have relocated him to the basement bathroom, for what it's worth, but we were on the edge of the area of concern.)
4. This quarter the teacher next door to the library is teaching a first period theater elective. This past week groups were running lines/learning scripts in the hallway outside the library and in the library itself. There are several convincing actors in the group because I kept hearing them and thinking I needed to jump up and see if everyone was okay, they sounded so distressed! It is absolutely fascinating to see which students excel in those situations because it isn't always who you'd imagine. Same goes with watching the students play sports.
5. It is JUST THIS YEAR occurring to me that presidential elections in the US coincide with leap years. Obviously I can just look at a calendar/Google to figure out whether a year is a leap year so it wasn't as though I was spending a lot of time fretting about how I struggled to keep track of which type of year it was. I'm not sure how that never occurred to me before now. Am I fretting about the future of our democracy? Must be a leap year!
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