It was so nasty and gross and stinky and hurl inducing. And, to top it off the authorities did a quick cover up of the entire mess.

The two week break for my school saw a mini-massacre when I returned today. The science department was hit particulary bad. Among the dead: one brown gerbil, five fish, two mice, one hermit crab, a tree frog and three snakes.

The worst murder was that of a garter snake. The poor thing dead last Monday and baked all week under a heat lamp. Yummy!!! He was cleaned up and quickly disposed of before the kids saw the green putrid mess.

At the end of today, there were a few teachers who looked ready to collapse and give up the ghost, but the kids, well, only one food fight, one actual fight, one utterance of "douche bag," two shoes being tossed recklessly through the hallway, and a rousing game of illegal tackle football, during which I was viciously mugged by a gang of seventh graders.

I'm strghtjcktgrl and there goes what little sanity I had left.