Oh joy oh bliss

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008 | General

First of all you must know that I thoroughly enjoy office supplies. New pens? Thrilling. Highlighters? Captivating. Post-it notes in all shapes and colours? The highlight of my life. So it shouldn’t surprise you that the whiteboards they put up in my room yesterday are like new toys for me. I don’t have to contend with hives or wheezing anymore from the chalk (or the chalk breaking and me accidentally scraping my fingernails against the board). The markers are low-odour so I don’t get all high off the fumes or anything, either.

I hadn’t used my chalkboard that much at all this year - I’ve been using my overhead projector for pretty much everything, even though my projector kind of sucks and is always the tiniest bit out of focus (or, maybe I need new glasses). Today though? Today was like “I’m going to … write something on the board!” five seconds later “Oh! We really need a diagram to show where Louis-Joseph Papineau was hiding out as compared to where Wolfred Nelson was assembling his troops!” And when I did use my projector, instead of having to contend with the 30-year-old screen in my classroom (it takes so much effort just to get it unrolled and then half the time takes me 10 minutes to get it rolled up gain), I could just project directly onto the whiteboard.

Yep. I’m a nerd. But I’m a chalk-dust-free nerd, and that counts for something.

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