as written in an essay by a 3rd grader:
After we finished griling the hambergers, I yelled to my brother “Let’s eat Randy!”

as written in an essay by a college student:
Fishing is my scapegoat away from life.

oh, and as overheard during indoor recess:
I could never drink Red Bull. I can’t believe people like the taste of bull urine.

that is all.

i’ve been wearing chucks since i was in 6th grade, about 8 years ago. i’ve pretty much had every single color of the rainbow, plus black and white and multicolored chucks.

i usually own one pair at a time and wear them ’till they’re dead. currently i own two pairs at once, one is my regular pair (purple) and the other is my work pair (white). at work (bcsd) we’re allowed to wear all-white sneakers, and i finally found a pair that fit their specifications, and yet were still cool enough for me (they match my hair perfectly!).

white with pink insides/accents. recently bleached in the washing machine.

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today marks the day that i purchased my 24th they might be giant album and consequently achieved a grand total of 400 tmbg songs on my itunes. that’s insane. yet still awesome.

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.

under the jump because it’s sort of long.

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my personality type: reliable realist

what’s your’s?

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so i’ve been at FRES this week, in the same classroom as last week. it’s looking to be a long-term position. well, if a few weeks counts as being long term.

today was field day, which i vaguely recall from my elementary years as being the best friggin’ day ever. but it’s not really field “day” anymore, it’s now just field “hour and a half.” instead of each grade having an entire day to do fun stuff, all three grades do it on the same day. well whatever, it was still fun. and saying “do your work or you’ll have to sit out during field day” is a great motivation tool.

fun fact of the day:
ever wonder what continent new zealand is part of? i know i did. you see, on the 3rd grade atlas in my classroom, all the countries are colored to indicate the continent they belong to, all except new zealand. it was gray. so i asked my dad, and even he didn’t know.

the answer? it belongs to a continent called “zealandia.” turns out that there aren’t just 7 continents, there are other smaller ones too. this particular one seems very small because almost all of it is underwater. who knew?

P.S. OBAMA ‘08 FTW!

i scootered around brighton today for a good two hours. i wanted to see how long it would take me to get from place to place (for example, on mondays i may have to go from home to FRES to brighton rec to MCC to home). i also hit up record archive afterwards and purchased the new joy electric album that came out three days ago. i feel real comfortable on the scooter now, and i’m almost used to the terrible looks i get from drivers as they pass me. lol.

oh, and i filled up the gas tank. well, it was 3/4 empty. guess how much it cost? — $3.17. a little math tells me that to fill it up from E would cost $4.23. that’s awesome.