how you know you are a teacher

i was looking at my friend nicole's myspace page and she had this list and i thought that it was pretty funny. 

HOW YOU KNOW YOU ARE A TEACHER:

1. You can hear 25 voices behind you and know exactly which one belongs to the child out of line.

2. You get a secret thrill out of laminating something.

3. You walk into a store and hear the words "It's Ms/Mr. _________" and know you have been spotted.

4. You have 25 people that accidentally call you Mom/Dad at one time or another.

5. You can eat a multi-course meal in under twenty-five minutes.

6. You've trained yourself to go to the bathroom at two distinct times of the day: lunch and prep period.

7. You start saving other people's trash, because most likely, you can use that toilet paper tube or plastic butter tub for something in the classroom.

8. You believe the teachers' lounge should be equipped with a margarita machine.

9. You want to slap the next person who says "Must be nice to work 7 to 3 and have summers off."

10. You believe chocolate is a food group.

11. You can tell if it's a full moon without ever looking outside.

12. You believe that unspeakable evils will befall you if anyone says "Boy, the kids sure are mellow today."

13. You feel the urge to talk to strange children and correct their behavior when you are out in public.

14. You believe in aerial spraying of Ritalin.

15. You think caffeine should be available in intravenous form.

16. You spend more money on school stuff than you do on your own children.

17. You can't pass the school supply aisle without getting at least five items!

18. You ask your friends if the left hand turn he just made was a "good choice or a bad choice."

19. You find true beauty in a can full of perfectly sharpened pencils

20. You are secretly addicted to hand sanitizer and finally,

21. You understand instantaneously why a child behaves a certain way after meeting his or her parents.

things that i personally find myself doing more since ive become a teacher--

-always checking the dollar bin area at target because you never know when they are going to have 

(1) cool stickers

(2) random toys we could use like wooden trains

(3) helpful books like "bye, bye bottle" or "no more diapers!"

(4) maybe something that i would actually want to use for myself

-telling stu things like, "i wonder what you could do about that," or "uh oh!" in a voice that i thought i only used 8 hours out of the day

-thinking in terms of, "if i wandered around a few hours on my knees in these, would it show??" when shopping for pants

-spending hours cutting out projects for the kids to work on when i should be doing my taxes

-getting excited that we are going to have a class party coming up because i havent had a frosted cookie in a while

-getting excited when a parent brings masking tape

-trying to sleep at night only to realize that i have spent the last two hours trying to figure out what im going to do in groups/put out for toys/potty first/hope is home with the flu tomorrow with an occasional thought of plans for the weekend

-humming random things to the tune of the "twiggle song"

im sure that there are a million other quirks that i have acquired in the last few years but the list is getting long.  i dont know if i should be happy or embarrassed about this list.  haha.