Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.
-Mark Twain

Wednesday, January 11, 2006

We didn't start the fire.. err.. actually I did.

So you're asking yourself, did she seriously start the fire?

No. I didn't start the fire that Billy Joel sings about, but I did start a fire.

"But Kira," you say, "you're kind of a pyro. You carry matches with you, and you don't even smoke!"

See now, you're making the assumption that I intended to start a fire. I didn't.

I did start a fire in the middle of my math class in front of 31 8th graders. I won't get into specifics, but it did include me, a paper towel, an overhead lamp and my illusions of being a "Ms. Fix-it."

However, never fear because I swiftly put out the fire with injury to no one-except my classroom's brand new carpet.