Eventful day

I had class again today, learning how to narrow the racial gaps in math achievement.

During class a mouse decided to make an appearance. The school is built about six feet from a large wooded area so it isn't a surprise that there would be a bunch of them. It amazes me how adults act the same way as kids when mice are involved. I will jump if I see a mouse, but given 30 seconds to process, I'll go after it with a shoebox and a board. For the next two hours, even the leaders were tiptoeing around and shrieking.

I ran into my 3rd grade teacher. She looks fantastic, she remembers me 24 years later. I showed her photos of Relia and got all nervous. I IDOLIZED her in third grade. She was young and pretty and nice.

After picking Relia up, I went to run some errands. On the way home from our last stop, I must have not tightened Relia's carseat straps, because while driving on 35w, I looked up and saw a little girl's face in my rear view mirror. She was standing up. Of couse every exit on the freeway is closed so I convinced her to at least sit back down and put the straps back on. And drove to the our exit picturing the newspaper headlines when I was pulled over by the police for having a child bouncing around my backseat -or something worse.

We all arrived safe and sound.