It's about 5 am as I type this, and for once this is a wonderful sentence, because I just slept for 10 hours then got up and had breakfast. Yes, 10 hours in a ROW. Mmm.
Maybe it has something to do with the admin who yesterday kindly offered a solution to some of the just - when - you - think -it's - better - it - isn't problems with one class.
I left the building with a spring in my step, plus it had been a pretty good day overall. I called THREE parents during my prep to brag on their kids, which I hadn't done in... well, I don't think I've called three people in one day for a positive reason in a long time. But, almost every class (even the problematic period) did a great job in reading and contributing to the discussion. Which is great because, I mean, we're at the start of the novel. I don't want to bog them down in "read these pages then answer these questions" yet. I just want to give them a shot at getting into the book.
(Oh, it's not all sunshine, of course. Each class thinks the other class has a better book. "Why do we have to read this? It's BORING. Why can't we read what they're reading instead?")
I would say that L-Flies is winning over M-bird and A-Farm for reader satisfaction, though, which surprises me. Probably because everyone has skipped ahead to peek at a certain scene on page 136. The one that involves "ass," and I don't mean Piggy's ass-mar.
But now, I'm playing Warcraft for an hour before I have to wake Mike up. Then we're riding together to work - he's subbing down the street from me - and this is fun because we'll turn up Dschinghis Khan extra loud and yell HOO! HAA! in thick German accents all the way up I-15.
("Disenchanting" is something some people, like me, do on Warcraft to make money and pretty things. You take an item of value and you "disenchant" it into magical dusts and such. The dusts and shards are then sold or gathered and use to "enchant" an item. Just know that it's fun and I get to do it for an hour before work, which is going to put me into the best of moods. I may be so pleased that we'll do my favourite extended metaphor lesson plan today instead of the planned reading.)
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