Lutheran Schools Week has ended. Whew! It was a wild ride. The kids were crazy all week.
Yesterday was Multiple Birth Day, where you dress like someone else. It’s not one of my favorites, because it requires so much work to figure out what to wear. We teachers decided at the end of the day on Thursday that we would wear jeans and a red shirt.
Every time I dress in jeans and a long-sleeved red shirt I brace myself for time travel. When I was a little kid and drew pictures of myself, I was always wearing blue pants and a long-sleeved red shirt. I figure that at some time, I must travel back to the past and meet my young self. And I must be wearing jeans and a long-sleeved red shirt so my young self is inspired to draw pictures that way.
The shirt I wore yesterday has a tiny logo on it. Whenever I wear this shirt, all day long I brush at that logo with my hand, thinking it must be a piece of lint or food or something. It isn’t.
Multiple Birth Day. Clever.
I mean clever way to cover the whole, “But you’re not twins, you’re triplets!” scenario.
You could also just dress however you want and wear a pin that says, “I absorbed my twin.”
That would take the pressure off those few middle schoolers who never seem to find someone to “twin up” with. Thanks for the idea – maybe we’ll share that with them ahead of time next year so they’ll feel more like they fit in anyway…
Every time I think about time travel, I think of the movie Primers and my head explodes a little.
I haven’t seen that. It sounds interesting and intimidating. The Wikipedia page quotes a reviewer saying “anybody who claims [to] fully understand what’s going on in Primer after seeing it just once is either a savant or a liar.”