Viva la Vida/Love Story - John Schmidt

Thought I posted this a while back - but I guess I didn't.  I love it.  He's an amazing pianist.  When I was an EFY counselor he would do the concerts for each session.  

All in a day's work!

After I told my Mom this story and she managed to compose her uncontrollable laughter - she made me promise to blog this story.  While many may find this story horrendous - it is a pretty tame one for our little world.  My conscience keeps me from telling the other ones.  I just couldn't tell some out of sheer human decency.  

But through it all we manage to find the humor in it and get over whatever happens pretty quickly.  In fact - I have wonderful TA's with a great sense of humor and we pretty much laughed our heads off on this story in disbelief and 'of-course-this-would-happen-to-us-ishness'.  I am so incredibly grateful to work with such amazing women who make every day seem like a pretty good day - no matter what happens!

Ok - so on with the story.  Names will not be used to protect the innocent.  heh heh heh.

We had a new little guy start recently and on his very first day we went out to the playground.  He was right at home and was having fun with the rest of the class going down the slide.  Perplexingly enough - as he was going down the slide he managed to pee all the way down it.  (perplexing - because he was wearing a diaper - but I do believe we figured that one out.)  So anyway - it took a moment to realize what had happened and why he was wet.  We were exclaiming as we realized what had happened - only to turn in slow motion (I swear!) and see the rest of our class lined up and rapidly sliding down the wet slide.  Get the picture?  Uh-huh!  They all slid right down through it.  Of course we were screaming, yelling, waving our arms - and they all just smiled and looked at us like the lunatics we appeared to be - as they slid down the slide and reached the bottom instantly growing a perplexed look on their face - like - wait a sec - whaaa????????  

Um yeah!  So the very last one reached the bottom - and quickly splashed his hands in the remaining 'puddle' as we were trying to keep all of them from touching anything.  Too late!  His hands went straight in his mouth.  You can imagine . . . we were dying.  It was unbelievable.  Luckily they all always have a change of clothes in their backpack - and needless to say - they all went home in different clothes that day.  It was a day that will not soon be forgotten.  We now laugh ourselves silly about it.  And we kind of half-laughed half-died that day too.  

So hopefully you're laughing now - but if you're thoroughly grossed out . . . thank my Mom!  ;o)

If You Know An Engineer . . .

and you want them to cook . . . try this site:

http://www.cookingforengineers.com/

I love the chart at the bottom of each recipe!  :o)

Genius!

Autism Spectrum Quotient Test

I found this Post on this site: http://ifonlyihadsuperpowers.blogspot.com/2008/04/take-autism-spectrum-quotient-test.html

I thought it was a Great education tool on Autism and wanted to share it.

Take The Autism-Spectrum Quotient Test (Edited)

Take the AQ Test it is interesting and may help you to get a perspective of things that are more difficult or easy for people with Autism Spectrum Disorders. Please note that this is NOT a diagnostic test. 

In the first major trial using the test, the average score in the control group was 16.4. Eighty percent of those diagnosed with autism or a related disorder scored 32 or higher.

There are 50 questions.

If you are willing, share your score. My new score (after glitch was discovered) is 8. The Professor scored 19.

Edited 7:37pm: The Professor figured out the glitch! Please do NOT try to score yourself on the html page that you get from the Wired website because you will ALWAYS get a 24 score. I created a table to make scoring accurate. If you check a box that has a number "1" in it, give yourself one point for that question.

Beautiful Minds

Stephen Wiltshire from London is a star among savants. Stephen is autistic. He did not speak his first words "pencil" and "paper" until he was 5. Yet, when he was 11 he drew a perfect aerial view of London after only one helicopter ride. For this film we're testing the "Living camera" in Rome. (ColourField production)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAfaM_CBvP8&feature=player_embedded

I LOVE Grover!

One of my students has these shoes!  I LOVE them!  They are in kid sizes but since my feet are so tiny I technically could actually get them in a kids size and they would fit!!!  hahaha!!! 

Down the Drain

If you ever drop something down the drain - watch this:

http://www.familyhack.com/2007/08/29/drain-tip/

This guy is a genius!!!!!!!!!!!

What a great idea!!!!

FAO Schwartz Piano

Check out You Tube for more songs on the piano.  Very cool!  :o)

Cowboy T AND Kbugs!!!

Strep Throat!  My Buddy - the King of Strep doesn't have it!!!!  How does that work?!?!?!  I'm glad he doesn't though.  Anyway.  Kbugs is disappointed.  She'll be missing Cici's pizza day tomorrow for being on the honor roll - her orchestra banquet - and a Young Women's activity.  She's quite upset.  T is so easy going - he's like - ok whatever!  Funny kid!  B is mad that they 'get' to stay home tomorrow and he doesn't.  

I could so use one of these!

Laptop pillow

POSTED BY DAVID PESCOVITZ, MAY 8, 2009 3:29 PM | PERMALINK

Over at Boing Boing Gadgets, Lisa Katayama beckons me to this "laptop pillow for sleepy workaholics."