Conversation of the Day

"WHAT?!"
"Dig your butt."
"I did. And your face came out of it."
-- 7th period cracks me up.

Question of the Day

"Did you do that?" -- A coworker's question after I asked him if he saw the dead pig wedged in a tree on the Maakua Ridge Trail. (8/27/10)

(Scented) Quote of the Day

"Mister, you smell like portugese sausage." -- A (portly) student's random comment in the middle of class. (8/27/10)

Interpretation of the Day

"I graduated magna cum loud." -- Probably not what a co-worker meant when he was emphatically boasting about his (elementary) school achievements. (8/26/10)

Quote of the Day

"That's the first thing he said to me too when I first met him." -- A 7th grade student who caught me rolling my eyes when his friend enthusiastically asked me if I had a facebook account and for me to add him as a friend. (8/19/10)

Quote of the Day

"You're on the committee, but you're not committed." -- My mentor teacher's response to my question of why I wasn't informed about a meeting for a committee that I had signed up for. (8/24/10)

(Obnoxious) Quote of the Day

"SWEET Monday!" -- Greeting from a (sadistically) smiling coworker who knows how much I abhor Mondays. (8/23/10)

Quote of the Day

"Teaching is the best birth control." -- A coworker's reason why he has refused to have kids of his own. (8/19/10)

Quote of the Day

"I got caught peeing in the bathroom sink." -- A friend's reminiscing of his elementary school days. (8/17/10)

(Grumpy) Quote of the Day

"I wish they would move their sorry ***es and let us pass. I already got bit twice." -- A hiker who was upset about the people in front stopping to take pictures so often that the mosquitoes had more chances swarm around us. (8/15/10)

Confusion of the Day

"Is it supposed to be cake...or brownies?" -- A friend's reaction to the thank-you-brownies I baked and gave to her. (8/5/10)

Interpretation of the Day

"Sounded like he said something about saimin." -- A friend's attempt to decipher the grunts of my overly-friendly (mango-stalking) neighbor (8/9/10)

Question of the Day

"How many chins do you have?" -- Question overheard in class between two 7th graders. (8/11/10)

Quote of the Day

"Yeah. So we're brothers now." -- Bold answer/statement after I asked a co-worker if he got the curt email stating that he would have to share his room with me. (7/28/10)

Quote of the Day

"Hey! My grandpa has that same shirt." -- One student's compliment(?) as she pointed to me. (8/9/10)

Quote of the Day

"I had a bad dream, and you were in it." -- A coworker's confession to me this morning. I guess that's better than "I had a bad dream; you were in it." (8/6/10)

Question of the Day

"Daniel, do you go on facebook everyday?" -- A friend's younger brother asking about my addiction. When I told him it's the homepage on my browser, he said, "I know who Browser is, but I don't know what you're talking about." He thought Browser was the main bad guy in the Mario games. (8/4/10)

(Preachy) Quote of the Day

"Corn is such a cheap food; our bodies are not meant to handle that much corn in our diet." -- Some random lady rationalizing the loud warnings she was giving to her kid about certain foods. As soon as she said that to me, she glanced in my basket and saw the bag of doritos. (8/4/10)

Quote of the Day

"You could just get a wife." -- Grandma's friend after I told her I didn't want to rent out a room now that grandma has passed away. (8/3/10)

Classic Quote of the Day #4

In honor of starting my 5th year of teaching, here is one of the top 5 quotes: "I smelled it first, and Mister never believed me." -- A student's recollection of when a cloud of pesticides covered part of campus. For the record, I did smell it, I just kept telling him to be quiet since we were taking a test and every few seconds he would distractingly yell out loud, "Ugh! Something stinks in here!"

Question of the Day

"Are you Adam's brother?" -- Some random lady in the parking lot after church. (8/1/10)