Since I couldn't stop thinking about the sexy mandle I finally gave in and ordered one just to see if it lived up to the (possibly imagined) hype from my extremely dramatic purchase that was clearly not meant to be. It arrived on Sunday, prior to the June 1-4 deadline. I do love a sexy mandle that knows how to be prompt, if not early. Punctuality is attractive.
(For the record, I do realize I'm talking about an effin' candle but listen up: this is basically the only man(dle) I have in my life these days so I'm going to talk about it LOVINGLY. Deal with it.)
So, my sexy mandle arrived early and totally caught me off-guard but totally in a good way. I got a notification that I had something in the Hub locker system thingy and, like always, I wondered if someone had sent me a pony. I'm not sure why I always think that but I do and it's precious.
Anyway, I scanned my barcode and OF COURSE a top door popped open and OF COURSE the package was way in the back of the compartment. Way to make me work for it, you sexy mandle, you. I jumped a few times and inched it forward enough to grab it and went on my merry way. I waited until I got home to unwrap it (I'm a lady, after all) and then took a few moments to just breathe it in.
And it still smells like I thought it did: like freshly showered, handsome, spicy but super clean man. I am obsessed. The only reason I didn't smell it all day today is because I already have candles halfway burned (Not cheating...we were on a break. Literally. Broken and destroyed) and because my APUSH guy (the guy I teach APUSH with) came over today to work on cleaning up and organizing the content we teach so it will be more streamlined and easily accessible when our team literally doubles in the fall. He's coming back tomorrow and we'll work on APUSH until we finish it all. Then we'll take a short break and do it all over again with WHAP next month. I didn’t have TIME to just sniff my sexy mandle.
Basically, it sounds like we're going to be spending a solid amount of time together and I'm super okay with that. Better than okay, really, which is hilarious because if you asked me in October if I would want to hang out with him and we'd be able to talk and joke about a variety of different topics, I would have straight up laughed in your face. The fall was a challenge but it got a lot better toward the end of first semester and second semester was freakin' amazing until...you already know.
COVID-19.
But today, while sitting at my dining room table, he pretty much declared me "in," so that was an exciting development. We read some of the AP Exam DBQs our students submitted and then we discussed and laughed and talked about more stuff and then finally got to what we planned to do. We got through an entire unit and streamlined it as best we could. As we work through the rest of them the idea is to have one of the new team members look at the stuff and make sure it makes sense. We work well together and I think we have fun together so it doesn't even really feel like work.
That's a super great combo.
For background noise I have "Pride & Prejudice" on and it makes me wonder if Mr. Darcy smelled like sexy mandle. I have zero doubts that, at the time Jane Austen penned this brilliant literary masterpiece (turned screenplay adaptation), people did, in fact, NOT smell like sexy mandle. I'm sure the Hollywood version is much different. To find a man that smells like...that...I'd go all in.
But the challenge is finding that since I think it's probably considered socially awkward (and perhaps frowned upon) to randomly go around sniffing people.
Still, I wouldn't put it past me.
Aubs
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