Wednesday Was One of Those Days....

Wednesdays are weird days. Not the beginning of the week, so energy is waning. Not the weekend, so nothing to get excited about. Just kind of stuck in the middle. Ordinary. Nothing to celebrate. I stopped at the convenience store on my way home to pick up something for my lunch on Thursday. I see two of my favorite students. He was in one of my Creative Writing classes last year. Often brought his breakfast into my room to sit and chat. She moved into the district last year as a freshmen. She was lost and lonely until they started dating. Now, she is rarely without a smile. They are grabbing every package of hamburger buns off the shelf. "You can't take all those," I yell across the store. "Yes we can!" the girl giggles. Her boyfriend smiles. "Hey, Mrs. Day, when I graduate this year, I have a present for you." Puzzled, I repeated his words, "YOU, have a present for ME when you graduate..." "Yep." "He told me