I have a tendency to procure items that may seem a bit, well, useless.
A wicked witch of the west throw that doesn't match anything in my home.
Sirius Black's wand from the Harry Potter movies.
And about one hundred Kinder Egg toys, just to name a few.
But even though those types of things may seem useless, I always seem to find a way to use them.
The wicked witch blanket? It lives at school and keeps me ward during fire drills.
Sirius's wand makes a wonderful pointer during Power Point presentations.
And the Kinder Egg toys make great game pieces for the board games I put together when I substitute in Primary classes.
This Christmas, my little brother (with a little help from my big sister) gifted me with a Doctor Who cookie jar... a really cool TARDIS cookie jar with flashing lights and sound effects.
It is one of those awesome items that could have ended up on a shelf somewhere, only pulled out to play with when my Whovian nephews come to visit.
Instead, it ended up on my desk at school, filled with the fortune cookies that are the highlight of my creative writing fortune cookie lesson. Thus the cookie jar fulfilled the measure of its creation by holding and dispensing cookies and, by becoming an object of fascination to the kidlets, won a permanent home on my desk.
Last week, it held the creative writing kidlet's fortune cookies.
This week it will hold the English kidlet's pre-final-test-mints.
And the week after that, my lovely TARDIS will house dum-dums for the sub to use to bribe the communication kidlets to behave while I am at district leadership team meeting.
So what lessons can we learn from this post?
Well, first of all we learn that TARDIS cookie jars are cool.
And, perhaps more importantly, I should really own a fez.
