kids say the darnedest things

is it summer yet? after a terribly relaxing and thoroughly enjoyable break, the last two days back have absolutely killed me and i am ready for a permanent break. (cause, yeah, summer's a break...ha) I would've updated sooner, but sunday night was spent on a plane, then in lines, then in rental cars, then finally home in bed after 12....monday night was spent gymming, returning rental cars, taxiing to car dealers, picking up marley jetta, then finally eating dinner and crashing.
so today, i can finally update. it's actually quite good that i had the two day delay in updating, as prior to tonight, i didn't have much material to write about. spring break was fantastic and i was able to see every person in ny that i wanted to see, but nothing boy related fun to report.
but the last two days have been quite humorous. or at least i'm laughing. cause if i didn't, i would cry...
let me start with the giant obvious fact that became especially apparent the last two days: Seventh graders will say whatever is on their minds, regardless of whether it is a nice thing to say. mine, have had an especially bad case of verbal diarrhea.
here's the story...
my co-teacher, who shares a class with me 4 periods of the day, became engaged over the break. yay for her. our third/fourth period class found this very exciting and shrieked when they heard. they asked her all the obvious questions, then the attention turned to me.
"miss, you're jealous, aren't you?"
"miss, why aren't you getting married?"
"miss, why don't you have a boyfriend?"
"miss, have you ever tried eharmony?"
"miss, how old are you?"
"miss, shouldn't you be married?"
"miss, can i nominate you for the show 'what not to wear'?" (apparently the way i dress is one reason why i am alone)
"miss, aren't you lonely?"

they didn't stop!!!! it was like being at a bad family function full of nosy aunts (were my aunts to be nosy, i imagine)
at one point, a small chorus of them started singing, "lonely....why am i so....lonely". how did so many of them even know the tune to this song?

i thought surely the excitement would die down today, but no....it, and the questions, were there again. we're focusing on persuasive writing this month and we did this group project where each group had to convince us, using the persuasive strategies we've taught them, that they deserve the prize we had to offer. most groups were awesome. most mentioned my lack of boy.
"ms g. if you don't give our group the prize, you will be alone for the rest of your life," one wrote.
"ms. g, if our group gets the prize, we'll make sure you find a man," tried another.

don't they realize i am perfectly lonely? i don't need a man...
i guess that's the 7th grade mindset that never quite goes away, huh....must. find. love.
sigh...
that's it for now. time to get lost...