holy crap

oh wow! Today was an interesting one. I drove to work this morning, a half of a granola bar in my hands....not expecting what would come! I go into the classroom and all the students were like, "PICTUREZZ PICTUREZZ". So we all took photos together. its weird because you know they'll keep those pictures forever! Your frozen face permanently in their collection. o.O We passed out yearbooks and the trading frenzy began. all i really wrote in the kids' books was "...read a book" or something relevant to that. i think i wrote a few "KNOWLEDGE IS POWER" signatures too. hahaha. oh yes. The day was a half day so the periods were short. no tampon needed. we were sitting in the dark classroom, watching cartoons and waiting for the bell to ring.
waited. waited. waited.
and. it never rang. Instead, the lady principals' voice sounded over the intercom and kept on telling the teachers to check their email. she made this annoncement about 7 or 8 times in chunk of time which ended up lasting about 3 hours. During this time the kids were getting anxious. poor cody just wanted people to sign his book. you can only watch old cartoons for so long. D: I went to the back and asked what was up. because i had no idea why we weren't leaving the room. AND THEN i learn that we are in a hardcore lockdown and there are dogs and cops coming out of the woodwork on the campus. holy crap. i had no idea that any of this was going on. that explained why all the blinds were closed and why no one was allowed to leave the room. turns out they found a magazine clip of 'active' bullets on campus. and on top of that there was a bomb threat. oh crap.. long story short, we were let go eventually and the day proceeded. But...damn. thats the second lockdown we had in about 2 or 3 weeks. OH yea..haha. and so there was NO announcement the whole time about the lockdown...just "teachers please check your email". at the very end, the last announcement said "thanks! the lockdown is over"! you can imagine the way the students reacted to this. "WE WERE IN A LOCKDOWN??!!" hahahahaha. so funny. but super creepy.
i got to stand in the big huge line of teachers and wave the buses away. that was fun.i remember the teachers doing that when i was in 8th grade. never thought id be one of them. also attended a teacher bbq. all the paras were on edge due to uncertainity of a job next year. mindy got fired due to poor attendance. point for me! oops.
oh and yesterday mingo walked out. the last thing he said to me was "crooked bastards" in reference to the administrators as we hurried to class in the morning.. then during my lunch i hear he just kinda left. >.> so strange.
i didnt even get to say goodbye to half of my students. the lockdown skewed the schedule. i will miss that job.

yesterday i went for a good drive. the sky was chalky and colorful. neutrals. huge clouds stamped accross it.