Thursday

We're still on our "back-up" generator, which is small and won't support all the air conditioners we have on campus. We've had a few days without any air conditioning at all, but today we rationed it, so that we took turns having our AC on for one period. It made it easier for me to put on a happy face today with my eighth graders. Any teacher knows that a big part of the job is making yourself be "on" all the time, a bit like an actor. Today my heart wasn't really in it, because there was a family funeral in another country that I sure would have liked to attend. But having a little bit of air in my classroom helped, anyway.