Due to a combination of still feeling under the weather from Tuesday’s midday stomach surprise and being absolutely unable to face my bad class for the Two Hour Double Period From Hell, I did not go to school today. Instead, I slept in until 8, made all my lesson plans for now until break, and went Christmas shopping.

The TFA office in midtown has free photocopiers, so I spend at least two nights a week there making handouts for my kids. I have to make 115 of everything I give them, so over the course of the year I will probably have killed an acre of rainforest – FOR AMERICA! Anyway, the point of me telling you this is that when I went there today there were a bunch of nervous-looking twenty-somethings in suits sitting in the lobby. It took me a second to realize that they were college seniors at the office to interview for admission into next year’s corps. I was really tempted to warn them not to do it as I walked past, but there were TFA staff around and I thought they might not let me use the photocopiers if I tried to scare away their recruits…

Lastly, my third umbrella since moving to NYC broke as I was walking home, and now I am wet and umbrella-less. Does anyone have a recommendation for a good umbrella that won’t invert itself in the wind?