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Vim and Vigor.  Today I did pretty well in the vim and vigor department.  I worked in a bunch of classrooms, helped out in the lunchroom, interviewed some peeps, and worked long hours entering names into a computerized testing program.
The cyst didn't seem too distracting to others, but unfortunately, the littles looked directly at it whenever they looked up at me, as it's on the neck so to speak, so I had to give a ton of explanations about it.  I made it as gory as possible, just to look at their horrified visages.

It's fun to get back to teaching.  I've read Crow Boy to 7 classes. The sixers were really sweet listeners and responders today.  Love the sixers. 8 classes to go.  I can do this!  Because reading to kiddos gives me vim and vigor.