Tuesday (again)

Oh boy, another Tuesday. It was the kind of day where my makeup never made it on my face. The kind of day where it took an hour to get to work. Where 2nd graders became violent. Where a kid who has been doing just fine in class somehow missed nearly every question on the quiz. Where I legitimately ran out of pencils for my giant 5th grade class, and then forgot to buy more, even though I made myself a note. Where I never ate my actual lunch.
But, I also discovered that a few 6th graders have made significant progress. That a few 5th graders are surprisingly good composers. And that I have gotten my brother's grumpy roommate hooked on The Bachelor. So I'm counting these as small victories.
A story from the past: I don't know how old I was, but at some point I made up a little tune to the words "King Tut Tut Tut King Tut Tut Tut," and I thought it was so catchy out deserved to be written down. So somewhere in a book of manuscript paper by the piano there is my little song. I'm pretty sure it just started on a note for "King" and then went down a perfect fourth for "Tut," so it was just do-sol-sol-sol do-sol-sol-sol. Not very original, and I have no idea why I chose the words "King Tut" to repeat over and over, but I was pretty proud.