Thursday, March 20, 2014

Medieval Days & Snakes at School













  1. OMG Jodi, with your bare hands?? What species of snake was that? Reminds me of what I read yesterday about desensitization therapy and my lecturer used the snake example. Well, this is off the point but that's both scary and amazing!!

    Great pictures (and I'm wearing an angry face too they only gave you credit for the pictures). Glad you posted again! I have all but neglected my own blog! So thanks for making up for the DoT sisters ;)

    1. Yeah Ify, with my bare hands, but only long enough to put him in the vase. I didn't walk around cuddling with him or anything. :) I originally thought he was a king snake (he had similar markings), but upon closer inspection, we saw that he was a gopher snake. They're harmless. I think in the desert, you can tell a venomous snake from a harmless gopher or garter snake pretty quick, because the 'safe' snakes have plainer colors, and they act differently. They're not all twitchy and on-guard--they're more relaxed and indifferent to your presence.

      Thanks for wearing that angry face on my behalf! ;)

    2. And thanks for the heads-up about snakes! :)

  2. I LOVE the commercial! It is so cute and fun. You must be so proud of your school.
    Not surprised about the snake at all. :)

    1. I think it was made by video production students at Sultana, which makes me SUPER impressed. I can't imagine being in high school and given the task to create a trailer for a "Common Core" conference. That's a pretty dry subject to work with!

  3. I love your pictures of the medieval events y'all had on campus. Looks like a LOT of fun! I bet the kids loved it, too, which I suppose is the important part. And for the record, I would totally have called the newspaper and given them hell about using your work without credit. Newspapers should know better than to plagiarize an ENGLISH teacher! lol

    The snake thing would have made me scream too and I'm not even in the 7th grade anymore (most of the time, sometimes I'm a mental 7th grader!!). But, it reminds me of the time my cat, Galileo, was under my desk hissing and rearing back. He's usually really calm so it was out of the norm for him. Turns out there was a snake in the corner under the desk. I freaked! Matt wasn't home, he was working, so I called Melanie who was at work about 30 miles away. When she couldn't do anything for me (she's a snake lover), I called my dad who, duh, also couldn't help me. I finally settled on the sheriff because we're in the county and they came out and let the little guy go. Turns out he was harmless, too, but snakes freak. me. out!!! :D

    1. I actually thought about you Kristyn when I was writing about the snake, thinking how freaked out you'd be. ;) I can't believe you had a snake in YOUR HOUSE. Whoa. I've had a lot of run-ins with animals, but you've officially got me beat.

      I really considered calling the newspaper, but then I thought, what could they do about it? I mean, other than apologize? I guess they could write in their next paper "We hereby apologize to Jodi Perkins for not giving her credit for her article last week," but that would just be awkward for me. The thing is, what I really want is for my name to be on the original story (small as it is), and at this point there's no way to make that happen. I will say that everyone who knows about this situation agrees with you, saying that I should have given them hell over it. So you all are probably on to something.


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