1st day of finals

The first day of finals. It felt good.

The weekend was sort of a ridiculous one... out fairly late on Friday, up quite early to get to graduation on Saturday, out afterwards for several hours, then napping for several hours after that before waking up and finishing my final exam in the wee hours of Saturday night. Then, up very early (7am) for softball on Sunday morning, then out late (waiting tables) Sunday night before returning and staying up until around 2 finishing my student letters.

In other words, I was pretty exhausted, and my schedule was all messed up. Still, I needed to get in early to run off the copies of my exams. My colleague and I agreed to race each otehr to school today to see who would get the copier first. She arrived at 7:03, and I arrived at 7:07, so she won, fair and square. It was all for naught, however, as running the 40 copies of the 9th grade exam was painless and took all of five minutes. But you never know...

I was able to finish all my letters to my 9th graders in 1st period, but ran out of time at around the letter P in my 2nd period. I told them to pick them up tomorrow. I had several conflicts during the 2nd period exam, including one girl who, after one question, said, "I don't care about this damn test!" and walked out after picking a fight with me. My theory is that she knew she was going to fail, so she made it easier on herself. Which is a bummer, because she probably wouldn't have. I've recycled my parent contact information already, but will try to follow up tomorrow. I've had several conflicts with this girl all year, but the 4th quarter has gone very smoothly.