well, oprah has proved what i always suspected...

...that i'm a genius. dr. oz was on and one person asked if left handed people were smarter than right handed people. i started listening at that point, because i've been looking for proof that i'm extra intelligent since i was very young. dr. oz's response had something to do with the amount of testosterone in the womb when the baby is still in utero (i'm a little fuzzy on the science) and basically, the right side of the brain develops more in left-handed people than usual (usual being right-handed people). according to dr. oz, lefties aren't necessarily smarter, but since our right brain is more developed, we're able to switch back and forth between the two sides of our brains more easily and more quickly. this means we're able to process more different types of information more quickly, so it seems like we're smarter. but i think that was just dr. oz's "polite" answer so he wouldn't offend all the right-handed people in the world. plus, i think he's right handed, so of course he's not going to really tell the truth, which is that the secrets and knowledge of the universe are located in the right side of the brain, and since our left hands work so much more than other peoples', the right brain gets "joggled loose" and all that comes spilling into our consciousness.

my roommate (who's right handed, by the way) thinks that's all ridiculous and that dr. oz is full of it. but that's what i would say too if i'd just found out that i wasn't as smart as me.

we just got done watching supernanny (which is like t.v. crystal meth) and the people were in las vegas, which was cool. speaking of terrible parents, the overbearing honors parent who had been emailing me several times a week about her students has finally stopped. After I'd gotten about four emails in one day i responded and mentioned that one of our goals as a school is for students to learn responsibility, and that it might be better if she had her students (yes, i get to have both of her children) come talk to me personally, instead of using her as an intermediary. and i understand that she's just trying to do right by her kids, and that they probably asked her to contact me, but it was still really annoying. anyway, her daughter came in to talk to me about her grade. i was happy. however, i do know that her daughter and two of her friends (who all have me the same period) talk shit about me during dance class, because my student aide is also in dance and she tells me. i hate two-faced-ness. (new word. double points.)

what else what else what else... i have to give two finals next week, and i haven't written either one. yay!

today, one of my american lit honors students asked if we were going to review for the final exam. i said, "yeah. open your book to the table of contents, find the titles that look familiar and review them. study your notes." i heard a little voice from the back of the classroom say, "i don't have notes." i stopped, looked at them and responded: "that's what we call learning from your mistakes." now before you start cursing me in your head for being cruel and uncaring, i want you to understand that these are juniors in high school, and honors students at that. i know that they learn how to take notes in their first two years of english classes. the fact that they usually don't pull out their notebooks unless i actually tell them to is pathetic. they should know by now that if i'm talking about a story, poem, author, or whatever else, they should be taking notes on it, because it will most likely be on a test. when we read the crucible, most of them didn't take notes at all during the entire play. then they had nothing to study, and most of them failed the test. THEY STILL DIDN'T LEARN THEIR LESSON! this is what i mean when i say my juniors are dumb this year. they just don't get it. and they want everything spoon fed to them. at least my 7th period has personality and interacts with me. my 2nd period just stares at me like dead fish. they're doorknobs, to use caroline's phrase. or feedbags, to use sean's.

it's 10:30 on a school night and i'm up (late) updating my blog.

do you see what you people do to me? :)