Yes, that’s what I said, Lice.  I have lice.  My head has been itching for a while now.  I can’t deny it any more.  I asked Pat what I should do.  Within 30 seconds she had me in a chair with 4 students surrounding me picking at my hair.  They confirmed it was lice and proceeded to pick them out for almost an hour.  I think they would have done it all day, but I had to go teach.  Pat was so sketched out she kept making funny faces and I could tell she was itchy just thinking about it.  I guess it’s a good thing I don’t embarrass easily because there was nothing discrete about this adventure.  Pat told me to give money to one of the students and she would get me the medicated shampoo tonight.  I think I would have rather just attempted to find it in the school myself, but it didn’t go that way.  Another student suggested I flat iron my hair tonight to see if that killed some.  Brilliant.  So tonight I washed my hair several times and flat ironed it.  It is slightly better.  Tomorrow I’ll be sporting a straight hair do to school and doing some lice killing tomorrow night.

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