So I am running on 2 hours and 45 minutes of sleep.  We went to see Scream at the Bowery Electric in the city.  We encountered so many detours due to construction on the way home.  Of course, the signs were not accurate and I ended up on the Pulaski Skyway.  I can handle driving that beast, but I can't handle driving in the city.  Go figure.  We got home a little after 2 am and we were still soaked from getting caught in the rain running from the PATH to the car.  Then I woke up at 5 am for work.  And I have Back to School Night tonight so I will not get home until after 9 pm.  But I am still spunky and awake for the kids.  Hooray for me.

So the kids are very mellow, polite, and attentive.  Not what I am used to at all.  I like the kids I normally get, but this is amazing.  It is honours class behaviour.    They say thank you and please.  Unreal!  Another teacher noticed this with her kids too.  We think maybe they felt so much of the turmoil last year and don't want to experience that again.  I seem to have a regular morning breakfast bunch.  Two girls and a boy this time.  So far.  Let's see who else joins.  I also have kids already requesting extra work time during study halls.  I need to complete all my baseline test grading this week so I told them to hold off until next week.  I also had a fulfilling, open conversation with the substitute nurse today.  The positivity is so needed - and deserved - that I do not want to disrupt it will anyone who is negative or brings me down.  I just do not need that.  And to top it all off, Scream were just so much fun and so positive last night that I don't want this feeling to end.  I know Back to School Night will continue in that vein - it is always like a party in my room - but Friday might screw that up.  Mental note:  ignore the bs.