End of the year!

You know that it is the end of the school year when:

1. You find yourself wearing jeans of different colors everyday and not caring. And then you wonder if anyone would really care if you wore your gardening shoes.

2. You constantly have to keep your thoughts in check and make sure they don't come flying out of your mouth! And a lot of times sometimes you forget and hope no one heard you.

3. You pray constantly that someone will pull the fire alarm....every hour.

4. Eating cafeteria food is no longer an "option". It will not ever happen.

5. You stash ice cream in the freezer because you know that it will waste a good amount of class time in order to serve it and it's too cold to eat quickly.

6. You keep rehearsing graduation songs daily even though they are already learned because you know that this will give you five minutes of freedom from excessive student talking.

7. You pull out the crayons and have a coloring contest....in high school. Believe it or not, this is usually a quiet day! I think that is my lesson plan tomorrow.

8. You threaten that seniors won't "walk" at graduation if they don't immediately turn in their tuxedos/dresses. You finally see a look of panic spread through the bass section!

9. You put on a talent show (aka Ham Day) and just your choir watches and participates. It's probably really lame to the onlooker. And then you tell them to bring in snacks for "munchie mania" which you creatively named on the spot today as you announced it. Because eating crunchy food will take up lots of time. ( I hope!) You secretly plan to bring in 4 ounce paper cups that they can fill to the brim with snack foods and then you tell them they can wait in line for the next round of food.

9 more long days and counting. Oh, did I tell you that for the last 3 weeks, the roofers have been reapplying tar to the roof? My roof--the music room and the auditorium. Yes....the sweet smell of pitch and tar. It is something that makes coming to work worth it!