What day is it?

Y'all, I don't even know anymore. For the last several nights I've gone to bed totally restless and I couldn't figure out why until today when I was all, "BLOG!" which doesn't make a ton of sense because, like, four people read it but maybe it'll get TONS of viewers when I'm dead, like Picasso.

Yeah, I'll be the Picasso of the revived blog world. I'm pretty sure I'm going to be standing in line for that title. 

Unless you're living under a rock you know what's going on in the world these days. On my last post, March 26, we got word that we were extending our digital/distance learning through April 17. Literally 5 days later the leader of THE great state extended that, statewide, until May 4. In FIVE days the kids (and teachers) went from light at the end of the tunnel to more darkness. One kid put it best: "We're maybe allowed to go back at the beginning of May but, Dubs, it's not even APRIL yet." I know, dear one...I know.

One of the things I started doing this week, which has been a real crowd pleaser so far, is hosting movie "nights" for my AP students. The time varies but the movies are all basically geared towards the end of the unit we were in before we went on break: World War I-World War II.  Around 10 kids have shown up, digitally, for each movie so far, which is not the worst. I came about the idea on accident.

In the words of one of my dear ones...

You see, what had happened was...my bestest boyfriend was feeling pretty glum and posted a lyric to a Pink Floyd song on social media. What happened next was an outpouring of concern because "Was he suicidal?" He set up a zoom so I jumped on because that's what bestest girlfriends and boyfriends do for each other. As I asked if he was okay the veins started popping as he explained, YET AGAIN, that it was a Pink Floyd song. So now it's just fun to mess with him. Anyway, another friend and his wife jumped on and were talking about the ridiculous Netflix sensation that is the Tiger King.

Let me stop you here and tell you I haven't watched it, nor do I have any desire to watch it, so don't bother pleading your case.

Plus I'll probably be bored enough to watch it by Thursday. Thursday? Next Thursday? What day is it?

Anyway, the friend and his wife were watching the trainwreck and I said I wanted to try to share my screen so I did and it worked and THUS my "movie night" idea came to fruition. I set up a poll and was going to take the top 2-3 but I decided to watch all five instead. Here's the lineup for the week:
Monday: Midway 2019
Tuesday: Dunkirk 2017
Wednesday: Forrest Gump (Yeah, I know it doesn't really fit but when I found out how many had never seen it I felt it was a crime against all humanity!)
Thursday: Cinderella Man
Friday: The Great Escape
***By Popular Demand***
Saturday: Saving Private Ryan
Sunday: Pearl Harbor

I love that the kids are so bored that they want to hang out, again digitally, and watch movies. It gives them somewhere to be and I allow extra credit for participation in discussions following the movie. I'm also known to pause and throw out random trivia except then I get responses like "CUBA!" when we're watching Midway and then they laugh as I start/stop speaking about 47 times then just mute myself and let loose.

I am so distanced from my friends and family, even my own kids, right now because of all this craziness that it's nice to have some semblance of normalcy. I'd give pretty much anything to have the boys here right now but one is quarantining where he goes to school and, until today, the other was still working.

I really want a Harry Potter marathon but I deleted them off of my dvr to anxiously await "fresh" recordings in a week or so. I probably jumped the gun there, huh?

Saddddddd...
Aubs