Beastiality

First off, thanks to DC Blogs for putting me on the front page!  How cool is that.  So, of course, my first reaction was that I need to write something interesting and profound for a new audience.  But nothing is really going on, so I’ll just do what I normally do…what about some ridiculous stuff my students do.

Today is test day.  To be fair, it’s quiz day.  An easy quiz at that.  The last test really destroyed them, so I gave them a gift this time.  Last week, while away, I had a sub go over the information they needed.  Today I spent the first 25 minutes of class reviewing with them.  I was basically giving them everything they would need.  I’m too nice.

A little background on this post.  A few years back, my first year to be exact, I used a worksheet from another teacher and it had a two problems that included kangaroos.  My students thought that was weird, but I went with it and pretended to be obsessed with kangaroos.  Throughout that year, kangaroos would make random appearances on tests.  I continued it last year and this year, adding swimming kangaroos, robotic kangaroos and, today, an angry charging kangaroo complete with a kangaroo fighter (think bullfighting).    Anyway, one of my students told me she was worried about possible beastiality because I’m so obsessed with kangaroos.   The conversation went this way:

Student #1: “I’m a little worried about all these kangaroos.  Is there some beastiality going on?”

Me: “Nobody said anything about sex with kangaroos.”

Student #2: “Who’s having sex with a kangaroo?”

I motion to Student #1.

Student #2: *Pause* “I missed you Mr. _______”

It’s good to be loved.  Also, I’d like to mention that this post excedes the allowable usage of kangaroo for non-Australia related content.  Feel free to leave comments if this is your first time reading.  I’d love to hear from you.

Music:  “Drink to Moving On” by Grand National on Kicking The National Habit  (off of Pandora…never heard of them before)