I must be ready for summer because my weeks keep getting longer. 

We even had a half day this week and it didn't feel like it.

When you add the crappy weather, the forced multiple days of inside recess, and the fact that I had multiple meetings in the evenings all about the same budget bulls**t, this week felt endless.

Here's what I learned:

• HAMBURGER HELPER:  This meal would not be on Jamie Oliver's healthy schools wish list.  Government hamburger continues to frighten me and make me thankful that I do not eat red meat.
• SMILEY FRIES.  My co-worker and I had so much fun making this video about the demise of the smiley fries.  Clearly, you need to have a sick sense of humor to work in the cafeteria.
• AR REWARDS.  If students in our building read so many minutes they are rewarded with an Accelerated Reader reward.  The third marking period reward was a Disney movie called Earth.  It is a documentary about our wonderful planet, but I don't think that K-3 students are the target audience.  Every time an animal was about to be eaten by another animal the kids made some fantastic noises.  I'm pretty sure that I saw some teachers covering their own faces.  Mind you, it's Disney, so it's not nearly as graphic as the Discovery Channel version.  What the kids remembered?  Darth Vader was telling the story.
• URINE HAPPENS.  Even in the lunch line.  Sometimes you just can't hold it any longer and it spills down your legs, fills your shoes and puddles in the lunch line.
• GREEN BEANS.  Only 7 kids out of 170 ate their green beans and next year, thanks to our newer healthier federal guidelines I will have to offer things like kale, lima beans and collard greens.  Hmmmm, that sounds slightly pointless.

What did you learn this week?