princesses

My parent's had a musty old book 'kids say the darnest things' on the library bookcase. As a teacher, I find this true enough, and its the inflection that slays me most of all.
This week I asked the students what their Halloween plans were going to be. Pumpkin patches and night-time ghosts have been popping up in paintings for a few weeks now. Johanna told me in a superior matter of fact voice, I'm going to be a princess vampire. I'm not quite sure what a princess vampire is, is it a princess who turned into a vampire, or a princess of the vampires.
Also this week, I finally got myself a ratehr lux mattrerss pad, and have been sleeping quite nicely apon it. There's a new subtle comfort to laying down to sleep, and listening to the alarmclock in the morning before I get up. I fancy myself as sensitive as the princess in the pea, because a few milimeters of combed cotton has proven a world of difference.