Some updates from my little corner of the universe:

- I have now met 2 of my 8 students.  Li  and M. Guess I'll have to get used to the new abbreviations; I'm going to have another D, but I think I'll call him D(M) since his real name starts with an M but is being changed to D.  And I'm going to have another A, but I won't call him that, since I've already had an A.  That abbrev is already claimed in my heart.  Either way, they were both really cute and sweet, and I know, honeymoon period, but if I can grab everyone before it gets bad, I have a shot at a good year.  Not perfect, will always have some issues (they're in my class because they can't yet navigate a typical classroom), but a good, controlled-ish year.

- My room is starting to come together.  The bookshelf has dried, and though yesterday's paint color was greyer than the day before's, it dried to be the same.  WOO.  Not the world's greatest paint job, but I'm satisfied.  Setting up my rug area, realized I could have a second, now must go buy another rug.  Sucks in that respect, but once I have it ... yay another rug! And another space kids can go to!

- I move into my apartment (technically) in less than one week.

- I loooove the custodial crew at my school.  The female, Milly, isn't overly friendly (but she's also probably not loving the fact that she's doing so much work), and I haven't seen Mike in a few days, and Ed, the big guy on campus (he's clearly the boss) is mega-busy and only gets to deal with me when I want/need something/to have something taken away... so I guess really, I love Mark and Dylan.  They're just fun and hilarious.  I had a bit of a faux pas today when I thought Dylan was 17 years old and just helping out for the summer and he's not.  He's actually 25 and working there full time (though going on vaca for a month first).  So Oops, he's actually 7-8 years older than that.  But it's also kinda good because ... he's very cute.  Now I'm allowed to think that without having to get registered on some kind of Sex Offenders list :-P.