Full Moon Fever

So I work in education. That's right, I am a teacher--which means that I am also superstitious, a bit of an alchemist, and sometime down right loony. For those of you out there that may not know it, your children are crazy, especially when the moon is full. So this morning when I started my pre-dawn trek to school, what to my wondering eyes should appear but a nice full moon hanging just above the light pink streak of early morning sky. Great....but in retrospect it would explain so much of the past few days.
I have been actively participating in the weirdest week ever. I spent the better part of Wednesday not sure if I was going to win the lottery or get hit by a meteor, both events involve great odds, but the results are slightly different. Without getting into too much detail, lets just say that by Wednesday evening I had solved three major problems in my friends lives, participated in 6 evaluations, had strange students call me out of nowhere, and appeared on television twice, on two different channels, in stories that didn't involve me. The sky had been covered up for three solid days, so if I could have seen the full moon, I would have just known that it was the lunacy acting up instead of stressing about my impending doom.
We are creatures of water and the moon's pull on our bodies does cause strange things to happen. Some would discount the truth of this statement, but my observations of your kids would more than validate the theory. We have more fights, more break-ups, more general craziness (and from kids that are normally rather sane--or at least sane for a teenager) when the moon is full than at any other time.
I can only hope that this doesn't spill over into the shopping weekend.

Here's hoping that you are holding on to your sanity, or at least giving it a good twirl over your head.

Until next time,

M