Switcheroo

I’ve traded assizes for angiosperms. Starting Monday, I’m a science teacher. This morning, I even woke up dreaming about angiosperms. That was indeed a new experience for me.

For the uninitiated, here are some yuletide angiosperms for your consideration:

• Holly, with which you may deck your halls, is an angiosperm.
• Mistletoe is a parasitic angiosperm.

Your Christmas tree, however, is most likely a gymnosperm.

My gophers are working around the clock to determine whether chestnuts are angiosperms or gymnosperms and also whether any of that changes when an open fire is involved.

Moreover, I am curious to see whether the gophers (part of genus Spermophilus) eat chestnuts and also what kinds of implications open fires have upon gophers’ tails.

I have so much to learn.

Fortunately, my English class will now be in the capable hands of the videographer who captured our rendition of a holiday jingle about a female ancestor’s mortal pummeling by a quadruped.