I have been quite busy the past couple of days teaching swimming to second- and third-graders in my capacity as a substitute teacher, so I’ve generally been tired and haven’t even really felt like keeping up with current events (I’ve read the news, but not much by way of blogs). Normally working like this, I would have had quite a number of posts mentioning things various students have said. Unfortunately, second- and third-graders really don’t say as much that I personally find amusing. I mean, I could have written about the condom-throwing incident that happened to one of my friends who is also a substitute teacher, but I wasn’t there and really didn’t get any of the details on that, so I don’t feel I could do it justice. I know my lack of posting vastly disappoints all of you dear, loyal readers, so I shall attempt to make up for it. Sort of.
I was mowing the lawn tonight (my third lawn for the afternoon, after working all day at school) and I honestly have no idea where it came from, but this particular mental image stuck in my head, and caused me to giggle profusely. I decided then and there, riding the mower about my lawn and giggling to myself, that I would make the funny picture in my head into a badly-Photoshopped funny picture on the internet. After about half an hour of fiddling with The GIMP (I’m too poor to be able to afford the $300+ to pay for the real thing), I managed to come up with this:
I would love to know what Sigmund Freud would think of my fascination with this picture. I can think of no conscious reason why I should find this as funny as I do.