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Childhood
Substitute Teaching
Teaching
Odds and Ends
Decades
100
I was born on this unlucky date in the middle of a lightning storm, or so the legend goes.
What is Friday the 13th?
100
True or false.  In two years of substitute teaching, I broke two VCRs.
What is True?  Both were broken on the same day by the same tape.
100
I visited Louisville this number of times before I was hired as a teacher.
What is zero? (The first time I saw the city was on July 20, 2007 when I moved here).
100
My favorite foods as a kid were spaghetti with Prego brand sauce and cheese pizza made from a 'make it yourself' pizza kit produced by this Italian cook.
Who is Chef Boyardee? (With a sucker for dessert)
100
Bill Clinton' presidency and I got my first word processor (which could print one page per minute).
What is the 1990s?
200
I had one of these animals as a pet.  It died when it jumped out of its bowl and my sister stepped on it.
What is a goldfish?
200
While substituting at Seven Hills Middle School, this tapped on the classroom window as I was teaching, causing me to spill my water everywhere.
What is a deer?
200
In seventeen years of teaching, subbing, and student teaching, I have taught this number of students.

What is around 2000?

(About 30 of which still stay in contact with me, including a photographer in Australia, a pharmacist in Canada, two lawyers, a car salesman in Boston, and a dozen teachers)

200
As a student in high school, it took me this length of time to run a mile around the track in gym class.
What is two weeks? (There was no time limit, so I did a little each day.  A time limit was added the next year).
200
Watergate, OPEC oil embargo, and my parent's marriage.
What is the 1970s?
300
In middle school, I began this habit which got even worse when I began working at a grocery store.
What is smoking? (but not anymore!)
300
As a substitute, I had to break up this number of fights (ouch!).
What is ten? (Mostly among middle school kids).
300
In all the eleven years I have taught at JCPS, I have taught this many different types of classes.
What is 8? (Geography, Regular and Honors World History, AP World History, English 10, English 11, Government and Politics, Regular and Honors US History, and AP US History).
300
To date, this is the number of speeches I have had to give at a wedding (as either a best man or as a guest).
What is 45?  (Including an outdoor wedding in the pouring rain and during one wedding when the cake got knocked over in the middle of my speech).
300
The Scopes Trial, the Quota System, and my grandparents were born
What is the 1920s?
400
My favorite activity as a kid was this, quite appropriate when you live near Lake Eire.
What is swimming? (Including eight years of swimming lessons)
400
In my two years as a substitute, this is approximately the number of papers I graded.
What is zero? (Though I did have to run lots of copies)
400
The most hours I have ever stayed at school on one day (hint: it was an Open House day at Central High).
What is seventeen hours? (From 6 am to 11 pm).
400
This is the most money I ever won on a scratch off lottery ticket.
What is $50? (I had to buy over $100 in tickets to win it)
400
I bought my first computer and I taught for the first time.
What is the 2000s?
500
I first ran into Genevieve (literally) at this annual parade in downtown Cleveland at the age of sixteen. 
What is the St Patrick Day's parade?
500
As a substitute art teacher, a student decided to do an impromptu interpretive dance on top of a table.  Before I could stop them, this happened.
What is the table collapsed and they chipped a tooth?
500
In my classroom in Cleveland, I had a small sign by my desk which read "17 vs. 7" which meant this.
What is the amount of hours the kids are on the streets vs. the amount of hours they're in school?
500

I spent eight years in college and received three degrees at a price tag of approximately this amount (for tuition, books, and fees).

What is $70,000? (Degrees in Social Studies, English, and a Master's in Secondary Education, grades 7-12)
500
My first car was built and the Berlin Wall fell.
What is the 1980s? (I had a grey and rust colored 1989 Buick Century)