It all don't seem so bad when ice is ringing in your whiskey glass.

Funny story time.

1) I was marking exams in a Starbucks the other day and eavesdropping on conversations as I marked. Beside me were a couple who seemed like they were on a first date. They were older, maybe forty-ish. Anyway, the dude totally talked about his cats the whole time. As a cat-person, I found the stories cute (his cat eats elastics just like Rilo), but the quantity of stories was astounding. At one point, the conversation seemed to drift from cats to other topics, and I thought, oh good this date can be saved, and I went back to paying attention to my marking, but shortly thereafter it was back to more cat stories. The woman didn't seem to mind, I don't think, so perhaps they will live happily ever after with the cats.

2) Last night I was chatting with a pal on the phone, and in reference to something I said "I usually just drag Becca T with me." She replied "that's random" in a strangely uncomfortable tone. I asked why she said that. "You just said that you drank back a glass of whiskey..." was her response. I killed myself laughing. Did she think I was at home alone, on a school night, chugging back glasses of whiskey? If I hadn't corrected her, I think there would have been an intervention scheduled for me shortly. However, upon further reflection, there are a lot of good songs about drinking whiskey, so maybe I should take it up to become more rock 'n roll. ;)

3) Before an exam, one of my students came up to me and says out of the blue "Miss, Chuck Norris broke the Periodic Table of the Elements. He only needs one element: the element of surprise." I laughed so hard; I think the kid was surprised at how funny I found it.

4) Here's another amusing school anecdote from a couple weeks ago. I was walking to the subway with a fellow teacher, and a kid joins us and chatted away. He says to me "Miss, you know what I heard about you? I heard that you're into grindcore metal." Not sure how that secret got out, but yeah, you know me. Huge metal fan. Actually, I do know how it got out. A kid in one of my classes was playing music he likes for me on his iPod, and I didn't say anything bad about it. I guess I'd better be sure to insult kids' tastes in music from now on so it doesn't get around that I like that stuff.