Theme Song

Let's talk dating for a minute.  I was looking at Facebook yesterday and noticed that most of the pictures of me that have been taken in the last year and a half are pictures of me at my friends weddings.  Cool.  My social life in Phoenix has been more of a complete lack since I moved here last May.  The main reason for that is the fact that I work so much.  And most of the time, I'm honestly ok with that.  I love my job and I love my students and I am almost always happy when I'm thinking about them, but every few months I start to go a little insane.  Luckily my temporary insanity is always just in time for fall break, Thanksgiving, Christmas, or spring break so I can take a few days to recharge.  Anywho, as of late I've been attempting to broaden my social circle and occupy my weekends with something other than a stack of papers and my research project.  Anyone who was concerned about my mental well-being and my ability to meet people will be happy to know that I've been dating lately.  It's true, I really have!  My roommate commented Friday night that she was surprised to see me at home and not out with someone.  I'm really not sure how this all started happening.  I've found myself meeting and going out with more people in the last month than I did in the year prior.  Then again, it wouldn't be too hard to beat that considering the fact that I was basically dating one person followed by no one.  After my last outing I noticed a completely unintentional post-dating ritual of mine.  Every time I go out with someone, I find myself listening to the song "I Just Haven't Met You Yet," by Michael Buble within 24 hours.  I got a little chuckle out of that as I was driving to church yesterday morning, singing all the words of my new theme song.

Insult Bombs

For some reason my kiddos are obsessed with my appearance and my personal life.  They are also extremely inconsiderate and rude when talking about their two obsessions.  The good thing is that they're just high schoolers and I know you can't take anything they say to heart.  Here are some of the wonderful things they've said to me:

• "My mom always wears sweaters like yours.  I think they're so ugly."
• To an aide, "finally, I get to work with a teacher I actually like."  To me, "don't worry, you are my second favorite teacher in the room"
• "You're so fashionable this year.  Last year you looked ratchet all the time.  We would look at you and be like, 'you know she didn't even try today.'  Seriously, you'd wear these big baggy cardigan's all the time."
• "Ms. Sansom, you never match"
• "Hey Miss, what would you do if there was this girl that liked you, but you didn't like her back....wait, never mind.  You're not the type of person that dates.  I'll ask someone else."
• "Do you have a boyfriend now?  Lately you've been getting ready and your outfits match"
• "I like to imagine that you just have songs about math on your iPod."
• "You have friends?!  I didn't know you had friends!"

I guess my goal of teaching my students to be decent, kind human beings hasn't really played out quite yet.

I found this in another teacher's room and thought it was hilarious.  The level of talent in desk art has skyrocketed this year.  I am quite impressed.  

GCF

In college my friends would always make fun of me because there's not a "type" of guy that I date.  They all seem to be very different.  All great ideas and "ah-ha" moments seem to come in the shower.  At almost every dance practice, one of my girls starts a a sentence with, "I was in the shower and I realized/thought/insert-some-other-word..."  I've also been working on factoring at school for over a month (side note:  I'm about to go insane!  Tomorrow is the unit exam on quadratics.  Hallelujah!)  For you mathletes out there, the hardest thing has been that darn greatest common factor.  Let's take a minute to put together those two random thoughts.

I was in the shower and I realized that there is a greatest common factor among everyone I've dated.  Let's take a look:

Grew up on a farm, drives a truck, wears Wranglers.
Likes to cook, handyman, drives a truck, travels for work.
Drives a truck, lives in Logan, works on a boat, studied plants.
Travels everywhere, plays lacrosse, has a bun, drives a truck.
Fast runner, plays lacrosse, drives a truck, lives in Logan.

Taking these five terms into consideration, you can see that each term has one thing in common.  Many of them have similar factors, but there is only one that is common among all terms.  The greatest common factor is "drives a truck".  If you were to factor out the GCF, you would be left with the remaining terms.

So there you have it, I guess a truck is all it takes to get my interest.  I must have a sixth sense that helps me find them.  I was never aware I liked trucks so much until that light bulb moment in the shower.