"Sometimes I'm strong with English. Sometimes I'm strong with Spanish. Mostly I'm strong with words."

"I bet when you were little it was like 'Arthur' and stuff." -Justin,4th, on being old

"CARLOS!" -3rd grader on my name

"Miss Billford!" -Fernando, 2nd, on the same

"You cannot trust girls." -4th grader

"It smells like all kinds of coffee in here." -Alondra, 5th, on Wednesday at 1pm

"It's because he gots 9 and I gots 7." -Julian, 2nd, on older siblings

"No. I'm not guud. It's good." -Nathan, 2nd

"Can I keep this forever?" -Mark, 2nd, on books

"Do you speak English or Spanish?" -me
"No. I just talk." -Izaiah, 1st

"I need books on alicorns. It's a pegasus with a horn on it's head." -Elizabeth, K, schooling me

"You just said 'dude' to me?!" -Jose, K, on my informality...bro

"Can I ask you a question? Where were you last year and do you hate always having kids in your library and why do you have so many shoes under your desk?" -Jimena, 2nd, on all of the things

"Miss! Teacher! Teacher! Miss-essss LIBRARY!"

After a year off spent acting, I have returned to the glamorous life of public school education.This time around as an elementary school librarian. My school has 650+ students, 90% of whom speak Spanish. This has lead to some very entertaining verb conjugations on my part. Until I return to conversational classes, my broken Spanish has me saying things like, "Manana muy bien." when I'm actually attempting to communicate that said student will do better tomorrow.

Students came to the library for the first time last week. Alas, there aren't many kid quotes yet, but I assure you they will be flowing freely quite soon. Because, as our beloved celebrity rapist in colorful sweaters reminded us, kids really do say the darndest things.


"No! George Jefferson." -4th grader on the 1st US President

"Paul Walker is one of the greatest American actors." -4th grader on the obvious

"The 'C'." -3rd grader on the capital of Colorado

"I don't even know, man. I drank a glass of milk and passed out on the couch." -5th grader on the score of the previous nights' Broncos game

"Let's go out there, cause some trouble, and fall in love."

Random list o' buckets:

• conversational Spanish
• glow bocce league
• make curtains for sunporch
• organize sunporch
• do fashion show closet purge redeux with the ladies
• host a clothing swap
• reclaim my yoga practice
• write philosophy of education paper
• start improv philosophy before September 20th classes 
• ESL class
• master sewing pockets on dresses
• eventually crafting a wide banded pencil skirt with said pockets  
• resume my church-of-one movie-going experiences
• do a superlative roadtrip covering new ground...utah? montana? idaho? hrmmmm.
• practice my tap dancing
• resume regularly donating blood
• learn to fix and maintain my Royal typewriter