Today I had a student get a bloody nose in class. He gets them all the time, so he knew where the paper towels were and he took care of it. He was sitting and then he pulled the paper towel away from his nose and a huge banana slug-shaped mass of semi-coagulated blood crawled out of his nose and onto the paper towel. He looked up at me with a look on his face of resignation and handed the paper towel with the still jiggling slug like bloody mass towards me. I took it, examined it, felt my stomach flip three times and disposed of the biohazard as the student went for more towels.

One of my fellow teachers told me a story today that is great. She was doing a lesson on probability and students made lists of things that they knew could not happen today, things that might happen today, and things that would definitely happen today. She gave a lot of examples and after students had turned them in, she chose random examples to discuss. Jesse (not the students real name) had put down that there was no way that he would go to the zoo today. The teacher challenged this saying that it was a possibility. Jesse has strong opinions and he crossed his arms and legs and prepared to dig his heels in on this issue. He said there is no way I am going to the zoo today and the teacher answered that it was in the realm of possibilities. The next morning (today) she asked Jessica mom if Jesse had asked about going to the zoo and Jessica mom told her that it was so strange because she had been given tickets to the zoo at work today and so when Jesse came home and asked if there was any possibility of going to the zoo to which he expected his mom to say no, she instead said yes! Anyhow, it was one of those rare twists of fate that deserved a good laugh.