It's officially Spring and yesterday I started taking things down in my classroom. I like to start slowly. (Anyone remember me doing this in college too?). Any way, in the Fall and Winter, I tend to put up random things that I find funny: a pencil sharpened to within an inch of it's life, an empty box of chocolate fish from Japan, Homies (collectible gangster figurines), a teddy bear, a fake plant, calendars, a tiny ceramic piggy bank that has "bribes" printed into it, a Snoopy piggy bank, foam flowers (from a craft store), etc.
My two favorite things are my wall of aol discs that come in the mail and a freaky holographic picture. The aol discs started when I felt weird throwing them out from the mail. So, I kept a stack of them. This Fall, I put pushpins in a bulletin board and hung them up. They're quite pretty, actually. Kids started donating their discs and I now have an entire board full. It's pretty when my fan hits them and they wave in the breeze.
The picture was something I picked up at a church rummage sale in the Cities. It's a house in the country, but apparently it looks like the Bates house. Ha! It has a plastic coating that's ribbed so it sounds funny when you run your nails across it. Best $1 I've spent in a long while.
My room didn't seem cluttered to me, but now that things are starting to get packed away, the room is opening up. Now I just need to figure out how to wash the floors more than twice a year (yep, twice) and I'll be good to go.
Does anyone else have quirky work spaces?
Movie of the Day: Office Space. Work angst. Funny.
6 comments:
I think Office Space is the movie where one of the workers almost goes postal because someone has taken his stapler.
I have become that person! My stapler mysteriously disappears on a regular business and I scour the building to find. One time I couldn't and it had a very negative impact on my day. All staplers are not alike! I want MY stapler. Call me weird but I don't ask for much.
I know what you mean!!! If they tell us our rooms will be used over the weekend (speech, ACT testing or whatever), I ALWAYS hide my stapler.
Is YOUR stapler back?
I love, and have lived, Office Space. I've even experienced a boss who loved, and is, the boss from OS. Oh irony.
The wall above my desk is covered with pictures, my favorite trinkets, and quotes. Here's a fav: "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." -Helen Keller
I didn't see a picture Becca. I want to see one of the discs hanging in your room. Your classroom kids must love you!
Have you ever watched the show the Office on NBC. It's funny- and they do some wierd office stuff. I think it can always make your own job seem better- you're happy the guy on the show isn't your boss!
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