July 2012
20 posts
mormondad:
remember when connecting to the internet sounded like it was performing an exorcism
SHIT I CAN'T MAKE UP: Convo between my 7year-old...
(Names have been altered slightly, just in case.)
Josie: I have a new crusshhhhh
Matt: Me too! On a boy!
Pearl: You're a boy with a crush on a boy?
Matt: Yeah he's really cute.
Pearl: Oh.
(pause for a bit)
Matt: Boys can like boys. I just can't marry him because boys can't marry boys.
Me: Yeah they can. You can marry whoever you want.
Matt: Really?
Josie: YEAH my tia has a wife so now I have a titi and a auntie.
Matt: Okay. Then maybe I'll marry him.
Dave: (from across the room) No you can't you're seven.
(Age was apparently the only foreseeable problem anyone of my elementary schoolers could see with gay marriage. I almost cried out of happiness. Later, when I was asked if boys could kiss anyone they wanted, I replied "only if they want to kiss you back." And Josie responded "Yeah! Your body your life.")
My students are the shit.
With a lineup like this, who wouldn't want to...
loladelphia:
FOX 29 posted the following as their Facebook status:
Mayor Nutter takes a seat at the anchor desk! Plus, buffalo chicken lollipops and the breakup of Tomkat! Good Day!
Holy shit, that sounds amazing! Where do I sign up? I can only hope that Mayor Nutter eats a buffalo chicken lollipop while discussing the TomKat breakup!
Seriously, is there really nothing else going on that...