Thursday is Relax Day

I started teaching yesterday and the students asked me where I was from and when I said San Francisco they looked at me with heads cocked like birds. I wasn't able to figure out why until after class when several said they thought I was going to say "someplace in Asia." All but one of them are white.

I'm grading papers right and watching this lovely movie on Lifetime, "The Substitute".

"High-school teacher Gayle Richardson has quite a temper. After finding out her sweet hubby was a two-timing jerk, she kills both him and his mistress in a rage and burns the house to the ground. A year later, Gayle is teaching in another town under a new name. But her luck is about to change when a few suspicious people — including the student she's seducing — start digging up this murderer's disturbing past."

This movie has it all, including a murderous vamp with a thick (faux?) British accent crushing girls inside of gym bleachers. And the foreshadowing elements of Mary Kay Letourneau's story is perfect because it turns out that this Sunday, Lifetime will be airing "All-American Girl: The Mary Kay Letourneau Story"!!!

Forget orientation week and teaching practicum. Walking these women is all the training I need.