Some of my year nines - nice ones, not the nasty ones I can barely stand to keep around during detentions - came looking for me today to ask if I'd pose for a picture for a 'staff cluedo' game they were making for a Pissing About Studies - or something or other - project.

I of course allowed them to take a picture, but I just couldn't get the murderous look quite right and somehow ended up with a cheesy grin. So we tried again with me trying to look as nasty as possible... and again I ended up with a cheesy grin. One possibility is that it was an incredibly bizarre prank where they'd taken a shot of me smiling in a lesson (admittedly a rarity) and were showing me this to mess with my head, or I'm just not capable of looking scary/stern/remotely intidimating. I'd go for the latter, which explains why none of my classes take me seriously when I'm giving them the frowning of a lifetime. They probably see it as a huge friendly smile and take this as approval of throwing paper aeroplanes across the room or just being incredibly rude to me. Maybe I ought to try smiling tomorrow and see if it has the opposite effect.