Lesson of the day: Analogies

Teachers : Vikings :: Desperation : pillage

I know that analogies can be confusing, so I am going to break this one down for you. Let’s start with a definition, an analogy is a similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be based. With that in mind, think… think hard. Teachers and Vikings??? I’m sure you have all heard that thousands of California teachers are loosing their jobs. Desperate times call for desperate measures. Skimp, save, be a tight wad! But when the time comes, and it will come, pillage! I don’t mean take all of Kroger with you the next time you visit the market. Because in all honesty we will get severance or unemployment, but until then we have to deal with the budget cuts at work. It isn’t as though our pockets are empty, no, no, they have been sewn shut for crying out loud. And this past week I had taken all that I could take! I was tired of the dirty looks from the office staff every time I ask for ink or paper, so I took matters into my own hands.
Recently the teacher in the classroom next to me was transferred to another school and his room was empty… or was it? I was able to get a key from the secretary and scope out the bounteous treasures that lay within the newly emptied room. As I stood in the doorway, it was as if my long buried Viking blood came bubbling to the surface. Pillage!!! One man’s trash is another man’s treasure. I had merely gone in with the intention of taking the desk (since my own has been broken for ages), but then it hit me, the room was like the ruins of a past civilization. Like Egypt, Rome or Greece the “artifacts” therein could be pillaged and reused or possibly… sold. I could not manage the feet on my own, and thus enlisted the aid of 7 student aids. In all we were able to pillage:
1 giant teacher desk
1table
2 dry erase markers
1 ink cartridge
60 or so pages of white computer paper
12 colored pencils
1 mini post it pad
1daily planer
10 report folders (with school logo)
5 unused referrals
1 extension cord

Desperate times call for desperate measures