First day of school socks!!

Last fall a friend of mine said this about her son:

Asked my 8-year-old if he plans to wear socks that match each other for the first day of school. He shook his head and said “Mama, they need to know who I am.”

Which I thought was absolutely brilliant. So I decided I needed to wear some cool socks the first day of class so my students would know who I am. My standard first day of school outfit now is a knee length skirt with my knee high lady bug socks.

Here’s a picture of me on the first day of last Spring semester. I’ve had good classes every time I’ve worn them. I think they’re lucky or something.

My class this semester is about 90% art, theatre, and music education majors. It looks like it’s going to be a colorful group. And I got a couple of comments on my socks. Walking around during a small group activity I even saw one person had written “SOCKS” on the top of her note page. They know who I am! I’m wondering if I need second day of school socks now too.

I even had my obligatory first day of school nightmare last night. I was teaching in a forever long hallway so that only half the class could hear me at a time. One long wall was all windows and it was snowing, so that was distracting everyone. And they were all speaking in German to me. There was also a marching band group that was trying to organize uniforms or something. So basically nobody was paying any attention to me at all. I don’t really mind those dreams though. It’s my head doing it’s worst-case-scenario thing and then things can only be better.

And, because I can, and because it’s related to lady bugs … Chuck & the Lady Bugs.