miércoles, 4 de junio de 2008

I am an exclamation point!

I was chatting with She-Ra this afternoon at pre-school pick-up. The little monitos were wondering when the next playdate will be. I was unable to answer that due to a lack of certainty...and then proceeded to list the different variables that are governing today alone:

Tornado watch on until 8 tonight. Flash flood watch, too.

So is La Princesita's game on tonight or not? Probably won't know until about 15 minutes before game time.

And if the game is called for weather, is the party afterwards still on?

And if the weather is so bad, will my students be able to get here due to really bad Beltway traffic from the other side of Creation?

Or will they just want to cancel tonight?

"Too many question marks," She-Ra remarked. "And for you, who just Does Not Like Question Marks. We must embrace the question marks!"

"HA! Question marks are definitely NOT my punctuation mark. I embrace exlamation points and commas. Commas let me ramble on and on."

*?!?!?!?!*

Reflecting on that idea while making lunches for the little monkeys, I thought about what it means to "be an exclamation point."
  • I am full of surprises!
  • What you see is not always what you get!
  • I love to have fun!
  • I love to show off!
  • I can handle being the center of attention (that is why I am an educator...)!
  • Get reactions!
  • Create reactions!
  • Exclamation points even kind of look like me...long and tall and skinny!
That is me. !

What is your punctuation mark? What statement does your punctuation mark say about you?
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5 comentarios:

  1. Anónimo4 de junio de 2008, 11:31

    Hey! no fair, why did you already use the best ones?

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  2. Anónimo4 de junio de 2008, 11:43

    I think I am an ellipsis... (What is the name for that ... thing anyway? We always just called it dot dot dot!)

    Why? Because I am unfinished, uncertain, unable to make a firm commmitment ahead of time but rather remain in the immediate spur of the moment planning method. Or is that called procrastination?!

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  3. Anónimo4 de junio de 2008, 12:35

    Ah Brad...that does NOT mean that you can't add something!!! :)

    An ellipsis, eh? Hm....
    BTW, how about that tornado warning, She-Ra? Were you in the basement like we were? That came on so fast it was scary. The kids were freaked.

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  4. Anónimo4 de junio de 2008, 20:01

    mmmmmm, I'd like to be a tilde but I'm just not exotic. Lessee, prolly more a question mark, or a comma although I really think it would be much more fun to be a question mark.

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  5. Anónimo6 de junio de 2008, 6:01

    I think I might possibly be a dash!!!! - pretty much.

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