Happy Things

• Victoria trying to hide something behind her back to stick on me and then standing in front of the mirror
• Danielle F. asking Mr. Ritchie to sit at our table with us
• Danielle, Victoria, & I teaching Kendra to rollerblade and Kendra screaming, "No, no, don't kill me, stop!"
• Danielle asking me how many carpet sweepers there were in the linen closet and me telling her there were three in the dining room. Danielle going to the linen closet and coming back, saying, "There are three kinds of people in this world; those who can count . . ." When she realized what I had really said, she said, "There are three kinds of people in this world, those who can count, and those who are hard of hearing . . . "
• Rebecca proclaiming, "State, country--whatever. I get my geometry mixed up!"
• Getting to talk to Israelis
• Ruthie telling Rachel Johnston that Micaela was in the Quiet Room. (Ruthie gets Micaela and her LIT's names confused.)
• Amanda giving us Snapples
• Megan asking Danielle F. who her favorite Learning Center monitor is. Danielle, not quite sure how to respond, since Tiffany is the only girl monitor: "Josh!"
• Threatening to pick up Ruthie--"on the way down!"
• People taking time out of their busy schedules to talk to me
• Nurse Victoria to the rescue when I fell on rollerblades
• Kippany's version of Mozart
• Melisa showing me how she can tell John and David Smillie apart (by their hair)
• "It's the Learning Center clock." --Mrs. Rothenhauser, suggesting in a whisper which clock downstairs at the training center is set to the atomic clock
• Rebecca's spelling of "bunk"--"B-U-N-Cake!"
• Kippany's amazing organization abilities: "I have five things written on my planner for Saturday . . . well, two of them are brunch and dinner."
• Danielle F. wondering if she should give her rheumatologist cookies accompanied by the verse, "Put not confidence in man."
• Danielle F.'s Cheezit-'n-Beggar theory: If you put a Cheezit in the cup of a genuinely needy beggar, he will eat it. If you put a Cheezit in the cup of a professional beggar, he won't want it.
• Kendra thinking that the reason Danielle packed Cheezits for her downtown optometrist appointment was solely to ferret out "real" beggars
• Kendra to Matt: "You're a liar!" "Oh, wait--I can't call you a liar, because liars go to hell!" (good Monday comment)
• Being the only one on kitchen cleanup tall enough to reach the plastic containers back in dish pit
• Trying to keep up with Hannah Paine on kitchen cleanup
• Culinary Clayton, emptying out old food containers from the walk-in: "I'm making a nice salad."
  Kendra: "You're going to serve it for lunch tomorrow?"
  Clayton: "Ya never know!"
• The look on Victoria's face when she poked her head into the hall, looking for her leaders and found Kendra with them
• A random box with candy in it from Jenine!
• John Michael Paine asking Jill, "Are you going to live here forever?"
• Going fun places with fun people