What is the luckiest thing that ever happened to you?

I take attendance by asking the students a question.

What is the luckiest thing that ever happened to you? (previously 2017)

Traditional:

• got into Swat
• life!
• opportunity to go to college
• born in a first world country
• winning Harry Potter Broadway tickets
• I once found two packs of gummi worms in a vending machine
• that I was born at all (the odds were against me)
• my cat wandered onto our porch
• won a raffle

Some people wanted to defer the question:

• hasn't happened yet
• opportunity met preparation
• idk I'm grateful for most things that have happened to me
• lots of things
• don't believe in luck
• TBD
• can't think of just one
• not sure
• yes
• not lucky

Begrudgingly I acknowledge that yet again someone claimed that taking this class was their luckiest life event. I can't be bribed! ... at least not so openly.

My favorite was definitely "Fell backwards off Willets bannister, landed on feet" --- whoo, what luck!

This post's theme word is hotsy-totsy (adj), "just right; perfect" or "haughty; pretentious." That is my preferred hotsy-totsy way of descending staircases.

What does the fox say?

I take attendance by having the students answer a question.

What does the fox say? (previously: 2017, wikipedia)

Not very many onomatopoeias this time:

• woof!
• meow
• ka ki ka ki (x3)
• nya, ring ding
• yip
• Meow Meow Meow

Many people who gave the fox the ability to speak full sentences:

• How much wood can a woodchuck chuck?
• Elvis is alive in Chicago
• Cancel Futurama Again
• "I don't like Chrome"
• here we go again...
• "I am a fox."
• "I wish I wasn't a fox :("

And ... a third category of "other ones":

• run it through valgrind
• whatever sound fox make
• nothing
• noises

I appreciate the student who just wrote a long squiggle. Is it a noise? Is it an approximate signature? Is it just a symbol to register "I was here"?

This post's theme word is whigmaleerie / whigmaleery (n), "a whim" or "a fanciful contrivance." Foxes speaking? What whigmaleerie!