I AM NOT THE WEIRD CAT LADY.... YET!!!!

Right around Thanksgiving one of my co-workers was adopted by a stray cat. Unfortunately, while she (the cat) was friendly enough with people, she did not get along very well with my co-workers other cats. He decided that with winter coming she would need a home and put the word out at school. Before you jump to any conclusions, NO, I did not take her in. However one of our guidance counselors has a sister in Vermont who offered to give Miss Kitty a home. The only way for my co-worker to pass the cat along to the guidance counselor was to bring the cat to school one day. Which he did. The cat spent the day in his classroom (which happens to be where I teach my English Classes). My kids were absolutely enamored with the kitty. In fact, I have one student who I constantly butt heads with. He is constantly making inappropriate statements, usually about women! I call and email his parents so much we're practically on a first name basis. Well, the cat, being female, was immediately drawn to the boy... go figure. She sat on his lap and he pet her for almost the entire period! I was actually disappointed that she couldn't be our class pet! There was that much of a change in his behavior that day. Alas.. The cat could not stay! She went to our guidance counselor's sister's house and that was the last I'd heard about her, until Friday. The guidance counselor had received some pictures from her sister and gave them to my co-worker. He left them on the blackboard in his room. During my 10th grade English class, one of my brighter kids walked past the board and made this comment: "Oh, this is encouraging. She's single and she takes pictures of cats!" I find myself clicking my heels, muttering the words "I am NOT the weird cat lady!" "I am not the weird cat lady!" "I AM NOT THE WEIRD CAT LADY!!!" At least not yet anyway.....