Bats!

(The title is an homage to one of Junebug's postings)

Wow! Lots of excitement yesterday. Let's start for work...

Now, lots of people in the city watch our CBS affiliate for nightly news, so for those of you who did - that was my school on tv last night.

At 7:45am, before school actually begins, someone gets on the microphone and says "Teachers and any students in the building on the third floor, we must close that floor down. Teachers go to the main office and students go to the cafeteria." I started laughing, for I knew exactly what that message was about: bats! One class period last semester we were on lockdown because of a lone bat swooping around on the third floor.

Well, this closing of the third floor lasted all day. A bat was found sleeping in a janitorial closet and someone got scared. And then another one was found. And another. Sometime after 8:30, the decision was to smoke the rest out.

I have nocturnal pets. I knew this was a bad idea. I was right. From what I heard from some teachers on that third floor, the fumigation woke the bats up and they started flying. Rumor has it that one went to the second floor and swooped into one of my friends' classroom. I'll ask her Monday morning for confirmation.

Then the fumigation got to the people on the second floor, plus the bats, so some of the second floor classes were being held elsewhere.

Ah, the drama. And then Channel 11 shows up.

The other form of excitement is the rodeo! But I'll have to write on that later.

Cheers!