Damn I had a really bad day yesterday! From yesterday, all my kids, and all of the third grade teachers (except for me ha ha) are gone to Kyoto. I anticipated being lonely without my kids and coworkers around, but it was worse than I thought. Anticipating it must have made it worse too, because the day started off bad and just got worse and worse. I walked so slowly from the station that I was 10 minutes late for work, even though I rode the same train that I do every day. I still had art classes with the first and second graders, and while I like those kids a lot it just wasn't the same. Really, I just wasn't the same. I was actually pretty mean to them in class, and had no interest in the juvenile antics that are usually the highlight of my day. They didn't really do anything especially bad or out of the ordinary; I just wasn't up for it. I spent a time looking pensively out the window.


