I love days like today.

We have tomorrow off for Veteran's Day, all my students happily worked on their assignments and now that i have recovered for the post traumatic stress of grading I could walk around my classroom (circling my students like a shark ready to strike it's prey) looking over shoulders to see what everyone is doing, ease dropping on conversations and most importantly doing what I love, helping the students who need it, even the ones who didn't realize they needed help until I came around. I bet those students hate it when I tell them what to do to get a better grade, but I know they like the better grade they receive in the end.

I spoke to some students who looked up their grades and realized they were not doing so well, and we talked about what they could do to get their grades up for the semester.

I helped one of my most macho boy students as he and the students at his table were talking about movies they liked, and to my utter shock, this student suggest that all of his friends watch Brokeback Mountain. When he said it my mouth hit the table with a thud. I could not see this student in my wildest dreams watching or liking a movie like Brokeback Mountain. He admitted he fast forwarded through the "gay" scenes and only watched it in the first place because the joker was in it, but he equated the homophobia with racism and it truly touched him.

I also answered important life questions I actually could answer today like when one of my favorite students asked me if Sesame Street was 75 today. I replied "It's 40. I am the same age as sesame Street!" My student reminded me that I am older than her mom, a fact which I already knew, and we laughed.

I got a facebook tell from another students who is happy and successful and makes me proud to know him, especially since he was handful when he sat in a desk in the front row of my classroom his freshman year.

Today was all about my students and teaching, my morning meetings was canceled, my grades were finished Friday. I really wish i could have more days like today