"All aboard!", The Buzz, and Institute Choir

      Oh goodness! Monday was great!  I was a little tired, ok I was really tired, but it was a great day.  The driver on the Metro on my way to school called "All aboard!" three times and it totally made my morning.  I'm not entirely certain why I enjoyed it so much and I think I'm the only person that did enjoy it, but it was great! (I also saw a mouse crawling down by the tracks while I was waiting for the Metro, but let's not think about that.)  School was school.  The kids were taking tests so I did a lot of lesson planning during the day.  I came home and had a nap and got ready for FHE.  We met at the church and carpooled to the bishop's house for our activity.  Three of my roommates and I rode with a kid named Russell.  He was really nice.  Bless his heart, he had a car full of girls that he didn't know, but he was a good sport about it and started getting to know each of us really fast.  He also pointed out a lot of good places to eat while we were driving.  He saw right through me and realized that I like food.  FHE was fun.  We played a game where you write down something no one in the room knows about you and then you guess who wrote what.  The person that is the last one to be guessed wins.  The winner jjust happened to be yours truly! I felt so cool in that moment. hahaha :)
      After FHE, Russell and his saintly self, treated us to cupcakes at The Buzz.  We only have one problem.  Now I can't decide which place I like better: The Buzz or DC Cupcakes.  I had the "9:30" special which was a devil's food cupcake with a vanilla cream middle and ganache on top instead of frosting.  Um....delicious is an understatement. From the outside it looked like a hostess cake, but in my mouth it was absolutely divine!
      Today I was supposed to start teaching.  I was supposed to take over the second half of Algebra II, but just when I got up to teach we had a surprise fire drill.  When the drill was over, they dismissed everyone early to lunch. So I guess you could say that my first lesson was smoking.  So smoking in fact that two hours later, the fire alarm went off again for a surprise not drill.  I thought it was really warm in that building today.  After school I came home, did a little reading to unwind, made dinner, ate ('cause what's the point in making it if you aren't gonna eat it) and went to Institute.  I went an hour early to go to Institute Choir practice.  It was so fun to be singing with a choir again and I'm really excited about the pieces we're going to learn.  We're singing a lot of the songs that I learned for All-State in Florida when Craig Jessop came that I never got to perform.  Sad news though, I'll be gone before our performances start, so I still won't get to perform them.  Oh well. I'm just excited to be able to sing them again. :)