A better day

It's been all dark, depressing and stressful for me lately. Yesterday was a better day, though. It was the best day of school so far. There were a few reasons for that. The first is just the students. Kids I haven't even had in class -- sometimes kids I don't even know names for -- come by to talk to me, tell me they wish they were in my class, etc. One sophomore's even going so far as to claim to be my daughter (not sure I'm thrilled about that, but she means well), and yesterday she gave me a