Tuesday, May 17, 2005

SOLs and the insanity that is my name

So, I went to a parent-teacher-counselor-administrator crucifixion of my co-teacher yesterday and had the oddest experience I've ever had in my life (not the crazy mom at the conference, but something else). I sat there, staring at my SOL testing roster for the next two weeks, and I looked at my last name typed in like generic computer font, and I could have sworn that it didn't look right. So, I spelled it out, and it was right. Then I wrote my last name out and it still didn't look right. I kept thinking they had spelled my last name wrong, because it looked so wrong. I wrote it again at the top of the paper with the little song I have for writing my last name, "SCH-NEB-ELE" and now my handwritten last name looked wrong. So, as a last resort, I pulled my id badge off my lanyard and looked at it. I had, in fact, been spelling my name right. Then I started to think that my last name is ugly and I've never realized before how ridiculous it is having four consonants in a row and how bizarre it makes a name look. No wonder no one can ever pronounce it. There's no vowel until the fifth letter!
Then I realized I had probably snapped and stopped looking at my last name before I became even more obsessively fixated on it.
I think teaching is much harder than being a student.
I think I need a vacation in a padded cell more so than usual.

2 Comments:

Blogger Anna said...

You're awake! How cute.
Your last names are almost as bad as mine.

5/18/2005 7:01 AM  
Blogger Kayla said...

You could go with something plain, like Smith!

Hehe, I'll email you when I get home about me visiting! Should be on Saturday/Sundayish

5/18/2005 11:30 AM  

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