4/19...I'm so excited, I'm so excited, I'm so scraredddd.

So I'm assuming most of you don't even realize/care tomorrow is 4-20. As soon as I left the Jim Morrison-Sublime worshipping haven of Norfolk Senior High I stopped caring, as well. That is until I found myself back in high schools on this completely annoying day devoted to pot smoking posers who do anything in their power to let the world know their high. Wow, did I really just use the word "poser?" Must be an affect of using the words Norfolk, pot, and Sublime all in one paragraph. If I start quoting KMK I'm really gonna freak.

It might be because of my anxiety for tomorrow, but all day today when kids asked me what day it was I responded with "April 20th." And then of course they'd all snicker and laugh at my mistake. I did it in every class I couldn't control it. It was like the Friends episode when Joey can't not say "mmmm noodle soup" because he's thinking so intently about not saying it. I'm pretty sure the male student teacher was convinced I'm a huge pot head, because by the third time I said it wrong he shook his head and looked at me like "what the hell is your problem." I'm just paranoid because of last year. I was working at a pretty wealthy school where it was obvious it was only cool to smoke pot if someone else knew you were smoking pot. It reminded me of Norfolk, except rather than carrying your weed in a Maurices purse the girls carried their weed in Marc Jacobs, and the boys didn't drive around in Hondas at lunch to smoke, but BMWs instead. I remember last year half of the kids acted drunk and the other half acted out every stoner cliche they'd ever seen on Comedy Central replay movies. It was painful.

My only hope for tomorrow revolves around the fact that I am working in a very, VERY, ghetto school. I'm talking metal detectors and pat downs from a security guard. So I'm thinking that most of the kids just won't even bother with coming to school at all, or if they do come it's because they just don't give a shit because they've probably been smoking pot since they were five and 4/20 means nothing to them because they've been smoking at all hours of the day for as long as they can remember. That's what I'm hoping for anyway... Who decided 4:20 is the most popular time to smoke I wonder? I've heard it was coined in the 90s. But then I want to know why there wasn't a Save By the Bell episode about it? Maybe two drug related episodes just would have been too much for TBS. It was probably between Jesse and her energy pills and Zack and his weed. We all obviously know who won, but I can't help but think an episode with Zack and Screech smoking pot in Zach's sweet bedroom wouldn't have been just as successful, if not more, than Jesse's "I'm so excited" breakdown. But that's neither here nor there right now.

Well tomorrow I'm not going to hate on the little kiddos for celebrating the holiday, I just hate when they can't keep the celebrations out of class is all. Ewww I sound like such a teacher. I think just to be a prankster I'll tell the class I'm making brownies just to see their reactions. Who am I kidding though, I'm not going to get reactions out of anything I do tomorrow.