In Norse Mythology the World Tree, Yggdrasil, is the center of the nine worlds

I am adventuring in a far away land, and my heart is no longer here nor there, materially in one place, spiritually in another - It now finds its home in cyberspace, inextricably bound to the World Tree, whereby it may remain connected to every world in which I have ever lived. Let our minds leave our private worlds, let our thoughts, ideas and experiences course freely through the roots and branches of Yggdrasil where they may be shared and united.


"An Ash I know, Yggdrasil its name,With water white
is the great tree wet; Thence come the dews
that fall in the dales, Green by Urth's well does it ever grow.
Thence come the maidens
mighty in wisdom, Three from the dwelling
down 'neath the tree; Urth is one named,
Verthandi the next,--On the wood they scored,--
and Skuld the third. Laws they made there, and life allotted
To the sons of men, and set their fates."

- From the "Voluspo" in the Edda of Snorri Sturleson

Sunday, January 27, 2008

Some Job Perks...

I've been peed on, screamed at, given a drawing of the Sherrif of Nottingham, cuddled with, kissed, been accused of being mean, and I've been told:
Gregory: "I'm SO thirsty, i could drink 3 oceans!"
Fox (the next Einstein) during recess: "Perhaps you might like to give me a mental logic problem."
Miss Anna: "Fox, you should go run around and exercise your body. It's recess."
Fox: "But I'd rather exercise my mind. Would you be up for a little Pre-Algebra?"
Emily: "You're such a good teacher"
Aidan, after i demonstrated a two-digit addition problem: "Wow! You're so smart."
Catriona, while sitting on my lap: "Do you have a baby in your tummy?"
Aidan and Joseph are best buddies, but are in different classrooms.
Aidan : "Miss Anna, can i go down the hall to use the bathroom? ...um, actually, I don't have to go anymore...wait, I think I do. Is Joseph in the bathroom?"
Mathew: "I'm making soap. I'm going to freeze a mixture of sugar, salt, eggs, some green food-coloring and some soap, and make my own soap."
Any of the Children (sobbing) : "But I didn't do it on accident! I did it on purpose!"
T.T. Hobson: "We're playing StarWars. And I'm T.T. Skywalker, you can be Darth Vader."
Jonathan (about 8 yrs old): "The worst thing you can do is ask a girl for another girl's phone number"
Max: Miss Anna, i think you should tell Martin that you're in love with him, because that would be SO funny!
Michael Dominguez: "You're a grown up. And grown ups are the slaves of kids. So, you can carry my lunchbox"
Really, I wouldn't trade it for anything =)

6 comments:

Geoff said...

THis post is awesome!

Sounds like you have some smart youngins.

emily said...

Well, at least you can't complain about being bored at work. Sounds very entertaining.

Does the school do class portraits? I want to see how cute these mischievous little kids look.

anna said...

oh, some of them are SO adorable. And it's a funny thing...that the most irritating, hard-to-deal-with kids seem to be physically the cutest.

...i think God must do that on purpose, so we don't kill them.

anna said...

we don't do class portraits that i konw of. But i'm hoping to bring my camera in sometime. I just don't know if it would be allowed, y'know, disruptive, that sort of thing.

Geoff said...

Anna! Write something already, I'm depending on you for entertainment while dealing with the extraordinary pace of Californian living.

I can't wait to go to the freakin midwest...hopefully slow down from this crap.

ok, vented, miss you...don't freeze to death.

Rauta Tanwënya said...

Kids are great when they're not driving you up a wall, aren't they? Sigh...