i’m officially a full-time employee of the brighton central school district. well, for the rest of the year at least. thirteen more days of telling kids to be quiet, grading papers while they’re at music or gym, reading countless dr. seuss books to the class, playing math “games,” being attacked by swarms of brighton rec kids, and just having fun.

and i now respond to more names than ever before.
- Lanni (preferred first name)
- Alanna (full first name)
- Lan (what my friends call me)
- Louise (what select brighton rec kids call me, jokingly)
- Miss M. (what i tell the students to call me)
- Mrs. M. (what the less observant ones call me)
- Miss Maszerowski (what it says on my school badge)
- Pinky (what several brighton rec kids call me, along with their parents)
- Pinky Tuscadero (what shawn from brighton rec and lisa from FRES call me)
- Lanster Monster (what alexa from geneseo calls me)
- Lanno (what sruthi from school calls me)
- Dr. Lan (my stage name)
- Lani (a mispronunciation of my name — a short a instead of a long a — that i hate)
- Punkin (what my mom calls me)

know any more? i pro’ly left a few off.