What?!

You know you're a teacher when:

* You carry your curriculum with you EVERYWHERE you go: walks, vacations, restaurants.
* You read Middle School Journal on the elliptical machine instead of People or InStyle like all the other female runners.
* Your Saturday afternoon lunch break consists of grading papers over Chinese.
* Every second of alone time is spent planning for the next lesson.
* The word 'respect' flies out of your mouth without thought.
* You tell a student to pull up his pants because it's disrespectful (see, the respect thing!) for a teacher to have to see his butt!
* You have a million post-it notes filled with a million to-do lists lining your desks, mirrors, refrigerators....
* You take pictures, not for fun, but in hopes that someday you can possibly use them in a portfolio.
* You get excited that it's 75 degrees and sunny so you can grade papers outside!
* You narrate EVERYTHING you do and are going to do. "First, we will do .... Then, we will do.... Right now I am...."
* Without thinking, you say "slow down", "walk please", etc and you're in the grocery store!
* You bribe teenagers with donuts to read quietly.
*Eight hours of sleep is NEVER enough.

You gotta love it!