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Spring Into Sherlock over at sherlockmas is going well! *knock wood* The submissions are rolling in, and I've managed to design things in a way that I don't have to threaten to break any kneecaps if people don't come through with their commitments! (Though I may have threatened the lives of a few anonymous kittens. Hey, whatever works!)

Here's a conversation I had with two students tonight: (Isabelle is 10, Max is 13.)

Max (apropos of nothing): How do you think the world is going to end?
Me (unfazed): I think in a few hundred million years, the sun will expand, and...
Isabelle: You don't think the world will end in 2012?
Me: No...
Max: You don't think the world will end in a zombie apocalypse?
Me: I don't know...what if it did?
Max: I would hide out here! (Meaning the math center.)
Me (scoffing): Are you kidding me? Look at those big glass windows up front! The zombies would get right through that...
Isabelle: I'd hide in the prize case!
Max: I was going to say that!
Me: How would you even fit in there? Besides, it's made of clear glass...you guys really gotta work on your zombie survival plan!
Max: Well, then I'd hide in the trunk of your car!
Me: I don't know...I don't have a very big car.
Max: We'd drive over to Kroger (a grocery store), and eat a bunch of food!
Me: That could be a plan...I could die in a Kroger.

Sometimes, being a good tutor means teaching the kids about life, and not just about math. :P

Comments

[jesterjoker.livejournal.com]

Oh wow. :D

[paenteom.livejournal.com]

/waves shyly
um, hello? ;u;

I swear, if all children were as cool as the ones you teach I would like them a lot more.

[sabriel75.livejournal.com]

Duuuude! You need to school these kiddos in how to be prepared during a zombie apocalypse. They do not have a stinking clue!

Dying in a Kroger is SO NOT ON either. Get your priorities straight missy. If one must go, it should be at the mall!

[switchbladesis.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you are hard at work teaching today's youth the survival skills they need to get through the upcoming Horrors. Have they considered their proximity to a cemetery? It's one of the details that's often overlooked.

[evilhippo.livejournal.com]

That conversation is eons better than the one I had at work about 2012. (The only redeeming quality was that one of the conspiracy theorists could actually locate relevant passages in the Bible. Solid book citations always win points over over paranoid email messages and the creepy phantom faxes we seem to receive at our office.) All in all, I'd much rather have it come down to zombies. Zombies I can handle (in theory). Your students also seem better-prepared to deal with end times, once they get over the transparent hiding places. (-;

[rachel2205.livejournal.com]

Your organisational skills are a turn on, baybeeee.

[tierfal.livejournal.com]

Those anonymous kittens could be really BAD kittens that no one would want to save anyway. Just saying. Just in case.

I think this might make me a terrible person, but… …there is no "but" here. Oops.

Haha, I'm glad you are preparing the children for the things that REALLY matter. (Have you seen this, btw? It is of a very similar mind on the same topic. XD)