Last Day of School

7:30am Hey, if anyone's waiting to surprise me with a job offer, today would be a good day. Last day here at Salem High for the summer. Reminds me of those inspirational posters, "today is the first day of the rest of your life" or some such.

There's the bell. Time to go see if we can retreive books the students haven't returned yet.

11:57am The kids are all gone now. So we're clipping locks and looking for books in lockers. I have some enthusiastic little helpers that do most of the work while I use the... what are they even called? Lock clippers?

It's at least something to do while we wait for the end of the day to come.

PS: We got to do the top two floors. I got a North Face backpack and some clear safety glasses. Cool. And I learned about locks. Hardened steel? It's not really harder to cut through- just more brittle. For safety in a lock, you're much better to make sure you get the smallest lock that will work, so that it is as close as possible to impossible to get those bolt-cutter teeth around the locking part. The one lock we couldn't break had just a tiny bit of the locking part exposed. But we had a very hard time with tiny little locks intended for briefcases or diaries, too! Just my two cents.