how many times have i said 'shush', 'okay', 'quiet', 'I'm waiting' today?

Apparently with two of my classes, the only way to get full-class attention and silence is to:


a) keep them after class and talk to them about why I need them to be quiet when I am talking (seriously, I haven't heard them be properly silent for more than a few seconds before then);

or,

b) dissect a heart in front of them and tell them about the time I held a human brain.


My main plans are to blind them with stoats and firm discipline. (But not acid, no matter how tempted I may be.) And be a young female teacher when they normally have older men. It's got to make a difference.


I also fell asleep on the bus home a few rows in front of one of my students. *facepalm* Yeah, I'm really putting forward the professional face.

(Also, also, woke up at 5.15am this morning exactly one hour before the alarm, having dreamt my alarm went off. Cue freaking out that the clocks had gone back without my noticing...even though if that had been the case, the alarm and living room clock would, y'know, match. Also cue waking up girlfriend with freakout. This newfangled light-in-the-morning is REALLY screwing up my sleeping patterns.)

Also x 3: this game is so freakin' weird. He just bounces...and wobbles...and rolls...so hypnotically...