Three Things Thursday

From my outstanding bike ride.

1. Today was a 9 bag day.  It's amazing what working out adds to an already busy life. The time I spent packing for today to say nothing of executing my workouts!  Here are my bags:

Swimming - 2 bags, 1 wet and 1 dry
Biking - 2 bags - lots of extra stuff in case it was cold
Running  - 1 bag
School/work - 1 bag
Library - 1 bag
Pocketbook
Small bag to carry book etc. to dentist appointment

But I got new library books and had 3 good workouts so it was worth the time.  My bike ride was incredibly awesome.  It was short (15 miles) but so so wonderful.  As I was riding I was trying to figure out what was making it even better than usual. I never figured it out, just decided to enjoy it totally!

2. Wednesday started out a bit differently. I was at school frantically getting ready for the kids to bust in the door  to start the day when the fire alarm went off.  What?  So outdoors all the staff went and soon the students were arriving and trickling through the parking lot.  Our outdoor crowd kept getting bigger and bigger. Usually fire alarm drills are quiet, orderly affairs but this drill? practice? real fire? wasn't. People were milling about talking and wondering what was  going on. Every second time one of my students asked me what was going on and when we could go in the building I told them ever so patiently of course that they knew just as much as I did.  Eventually we got the message that we should have our morning meetings out there. So all over the playground classes were circling up and starting their meetings. Of course my plans were inside so it was all made up on the spot.  The greeting we did was one we were always squished doing but here we had plenty of room. (Look at me being positive.)  I had a colleague ask me about it later as she said it looked like a fun greeting. (It is.)  Then we had sharing. I was running out of sharing ideas so I polled my kids and they wanted to bring collections. About 3 kids a day are bringing one.  I have to say I LOVE seeing their collections.  Today they reminded me their collections were right in their backpacks which they had brought from home.  Then every class out there was playing, Duck Duck Goose, so we had to join the party.  Well 3 kids got hurt on the stones and finally it was time to go in. The worst part was that we were out there for a FULL HOUR and I missed some of my oh so precious special when the kids aren't with me and I have time to plan!!!  But other than that we really did quite well for an impromptu unplanned hour outdoors with the whole school.
And what was the problem? The fire alarm got pulled and then it wouldn't go off so we had to wait for the fire department to come and make sure it was functioning correctly.

3. Today on the radio I heard about what has to be the worst job ever............boa constrictor catcher in NYC. If you lose your boa there is a man to call! I heard it on NPR!