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While I try to balance the new speed, intensity and anxiety level of my daily life, some artifacts of this year’s outrageous adventure thus far.

His favorite subject is math; he loves me; and now I have to go to a Superintendent hearing about how he grabbed my “professional developments.”  Happy 3rd Day of School!Scenes from the Dean’s Waiting Room at the Superintendent offices in Downtown Brooklyn.

Nothing hurts more than addition with regrouping.  In all seriousness, this was the alarming Day 6 of the school year.

“No.”  Though this is kind of makes me giggle, it is more about language barrier than withholding.

I made a meme thingy.  How millennial of me.  But it’s really true. I overhauled my entire 6th grade curriculum and have an Artist’s Statement that contains all the freshest teacher jargon.  The best laid plans of mice and men…“He feels pain [in] his body when he holds in his mind.”  Me too, sweet one.

My classroom now has an Introvert Alert warning.  Though I am the most extroverted of the introverted temperament types, I still fall deep in my head.  This is how you know how introverted someone is… how intensely they startle when you catch them off guard.

Here’s to the craziest start of the school year–ever.  One that inspires strange decompression activities. Like Alien head pictures and…

Dating, yes! That’ll help balance the dysfunctional in my life!  But I rejected too may people I suppose. 😂 Either way, it’s proving to be an fascinating social experiment.

Finally, sometimes a message arrives exactly when you need it. 💗

Here’s to the teachers! We are a select breed of crazies.