This list especially relates to middle school educators:
1. You've dialed 9 to make an outgoing call... on your cell. (Parent phone calls from the classroom phone, much?)
2. You have to restrain the habit of telling pre-teens having fun at social gatherings or public places to "quiet down" or "CUT IT OUT."
3. Without consideration or hesitation you chuck a package of pencils, paper, and post-its in your grocery cart on every trip.
4. When you're distracted you start to shush people who are talking... anywhere.
5. You absent-mindedly dab on hand sanitizer each time you hear someone sneeze, cough, or clear their throat.
6. You feel naked without your lanyard of your keys and teacher ID hanging around your neck.
7. When that driver erroneously stops to let you go even though he doesn't have a stop sign, you feel inclined to take advantage of a "teaching moment" and show him the correct procedure with a (gentle) tap on the horn.
8. On a whim during 4th quarter you dish out the cash you never would have in September to buy the audiobook and movie based off your class novel because technology is the burnt out teacher's best friend.
9. Your whole "I don't bribe students, I reward them" motto turns into "I will give you a jolly rancher if you just stay in your flippin' seat"
10. You pass a teacher in the hallway your barely know and you both call out the number of class periods left in the school year as a cheerful greeting.
Countdown 'til summer: 4.5 weeks, 22 days, 154 class periods.
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