Oddities 101

Some more odd snippets from my classes:

My neuroscience teacher was talking about aphasia or something. She had been talking non-stop for close to an hour, so naturally, the entire class was starting to space out. I was doodling absentmindedly in the margins of my notebook (with this awesome fountain pen I randomly found in my house- I can write all calligraphishly!) when I heard a squeaking noise coming from the open window. I look over... and see a huge moving black object. A bookcase. A big, ceiling height, black bookcase on wheels that was being pushed across the sidewalk. Soon, the bookcase had the entire classes attention, as we stared, transfixed, while it passed us by.

My history teacher brought a measuring tape to class. It was one of those construction worker types, the ones that you can pull out forever and then they snap back in. It was ridiculously amusing. I played with it at the beginning of the class, but then my friend stretched it across the entire classroom, and my teacher took it away and rested it on the chalk holder of the black board. I patiently abided my time until the class got distracted again, as it always does. Then I snuck up to the board- like a ninja!- and quickly swiped the measuring tape before returning to my seat. I resumed playing with it, but it got taken again before long. So I waited again, and again managed to steal it. This time, the teacher tried to take it away even earlier, so I gave it to my friend to keep it away from him. Instead, she HANDS it over, smirking, and the teacher, finally learning from my sneakiness, put the measuring tape in his pocket.

<3 Helen