I might have a cold, but I have PIZZA!

So today I decided that I deserved pizza for dinner! I ordered the pizza and then ran to the grocery store and the bank and then went to the pizza place. When I got there, there was only one guy running the whole show. He was making the pizza, answering the phones, folding the boxes, etc. So when he said "it'll be a minute," I figured it would be more than one minute... so I sat down. Next to me was a lady, yacking on her cell phone. Then she turns to me and starts ranting about how rude poor pizza guy has been to her and do I smell something burning and how it better not be her pizza, etc. So pizza guy finally brings out her 4 pizzas, and she starts in on him. Without going into the nasty things she said... she ended up storming out. So nice pizza dude thanks me for waiting and asks if I would like her 4 pizzas along with my one. So for $7 (I had a coupon) I got 5 large pizzas. Pretty good deal huh? :) I have another stupid-waste-of-time technology class tomorrow... but then me and the girls will be having a pizza party for lunch :)

All in all, other than the sniffles, it has been a pretty good week. The theme of our reading unit this week was "Making a Difference," so I had my reading class do a cool project. After reading a book about Fleming's discovery of penicillin, they had to come up with a project or invention that would do something to make a difference in the world. It had to be practical and possible, but not something that they actually had to make. I had them do a poster and write a paragraph to go with it. They were fantastic!!! We had a chameleon security robot who would blend into the building and then be activated when buildings (like banks) were broken into to capture the bad guys. I loved that one because the boys remembered an article from National Geographic about scientists getting ideas from nature, and combined it with another article we read about chameleons. It is so exciting to see their brains in motion!! Other cool inventions included a boat that had all kinds of water-pollution-cleaner-uper gadgets -- including motion sensors to stop if there were animals nearby. There was also a street-cleaning car robot that could separate trash into trash and recyclables. There was also a system to be built into parks that would sense litter on the ground, activate blowers which would push the litter towards tubes which would suck it into the ground and down into trash/recycling bins. A couple others did projects to raise money -- one for orphans and another for hospitals so they could treat poor people who needed help. These kids are so wonderful... it gives me faith that they will indeed grow up to make this world a better place!

Anyway... I am glad it is Friday... and now I am off to eat some pizza :)