(no subject)

Good news: I am not insane today, nor am I moody and weird. I got through the crazybusiest day of my week in a fairly organized fashion even though my assistant went home sick, and there was no staff meeting when there would normally have been a staff meeting. A bespectacled kindergartener complimented my clothes ("I like your clothes today, Ms F"), which tells you I was rocking bright colors and extraneous shiny things. Then I came home to a croissant with Nutella. Oh, and also, there are no mice in our towels! Life is good.

I have started a holiday stories unit with the younger kids, since it turns out we have 4 count-'em-4 weeks until Christmas break. We are reading Christmas and Hanukkah stories and reading about traditions all over the world, etc. etc., so we can talk about "text to self connections" and "personal narratives" and diversity and things. I have now read the story of Befana/Babushka several times, and gotten small children to "interpret" Christmas/winter poetry ("what do you think it means when the girl says that snowflakes erase the world?") This is actually putting me in the mood for Christmas-y things. Which reminds me that I have some serious preparing to do and very little time to do it, oh my gosh.

I think it may be time to make lists of things to do. Or perhaps take a bath, and then make lists of things to do.