Omorka's Lair

Yes, it was that time again today. Somehow, I got assigned to be an assistant proctor in someone else's room. (This is probably because my room (a) doesn't have 30 chairs, and (b) is right next to a sp. ed. life skills classroom that is traditionally pretty noisy.) The someone was a first-year senior English teacher who has twenty-four years on me. He firmly believes that the entire standardized testing movement in education is a conspiracy on the part of the people who produce the scoring machines, which I'll admit I can't argue against.

( This is what I wrote between 8:30 and 9:15, while making sure all students had dictionaries and also doing other proctor stuff. )

( Look, it was even bad enough I had to write free verse )