Well the week's almost over and I can't wait!  The week started off terribly as I contracted a nasty stomach bug that had wreaked havoc the entire weekend and kept me out of class until today.  To top it all off, today wasn't exactly one of the best days I've had this year.  The kids were like zombies and despite my best attempts, I could hardly get them to answer questions loud enough to hear.  I tried a plain discussion, going over questions from their classwork, and at one point I was just asking them about the past couple of days but i couldn't get anything more than a few sentences out of them. Follow that with an hour long parent-teacher conference (it went well) and another 45 minutes of my KTIP teacher's orientation meeting combined with class until 7:30 and I am ready to crash.  Hopefully tomorrow will be better and the kids will be back to themselves.  If they're not I'm just going to have to go David Blaine on 'em and work some magic!