Should we colour coordinate our friends?

I had a small Year 7 student approach me the other day:

"Ms. Bus, are you and Ms. H best friends coz you both have pink hair?"

I explained that Ms H and I were good friends but that that had nothing to do with our hair colour choices. We both just wanted (individually and completely separately) to have pink hair.

But I thought: What if we selected our friends based on our favourite colours? Those who enjoy aquamarine hues can bandy together and when out on the town it would be easy to find members of your group coz you would all be dressed in a uniform of such.

But what if you have more than one favourite colour? Do you become known as the colour whore who skips between groups? Or you don't have a favourite colour - do you become the scotty with no friends?

I was contemplating the idea of people only hanging out with the same hairstyles and then I realised as soon as a group of young, blonde, hair tizzed to the ceiling perfecting that "I spent hours making my hair look like I just got out of bed" look that we already have those groups!

Cheers, Mel

Musings

1) Those jelly beans for diabetics you get from the chemist are the BEST JELLY BEANS IN THE WORLD!!

2) Adam Hills is funny

3) A ferris wheel is good in theory

4) Garry Lyons: Good from far, far from good. Here is a pic of the two of us!

5) I suck at Blackjack and I think Crown is really rude to have $10 minimum bets

6) Women in porn always wear bad shoes

7) Big Brother 06: I like the model/organic farmer. Dislike the fuckin retarded blonde overtanned beach skank.

8) Still can't decide if I like Gretel's fashion sense

9) Our horrid neighbour is so nosy she realised that we hadn't been using the front door and wanted to know why! AND she told Jarrod and I off for talking too loudly last night!

10) The idea of the English chanting "Get your shit stars off our flag" makes me laugh.

Mel xoxo

Recent happenings in the world of Mel

As you all know I like to update you all on events that randomly happen in my life. Here are a few of my favourites

1) Holding a parent teacher interview with a mother who is both deaf and dumb (as in mute). I'm trying to speak clearly so she can lip read, but she has to look at her daughter anyway to sign what she wants to say back. Her daughter, whom I teach, is the laziest signer i've ever met. I would say "Rachel's a pleasure to have in the classroom" and she would sign to her mother "She loves me." Considering the context of too many teachers fiddling with kids I wanted her to translate properly so I don't have the mother thinking there are any improprieties happening!

2) Another parent teacher interview where a mum wanted me to organise her childs medication coz thats what his primary school teacher did. I had to politely say "Um i'm not his fucking mother so NO! I don't even see the kid every day!

Catch you all round soon,

Mel xoxox