Monday, Monday

Mondays are often the hardest day of the work week for many reasons. One of the major factors is that the students have had lots of time to get immersed in the neighborhood. Today seemed to be particulary "active". I asked a friend at work who lives in the neighborhood if there was a shooting or something else that had happened over the weekend. The only thing she could come up with was the neighborhood drug dealer that was murdered on Thursday. The kids were pretty worked up about that stabbing/house-burning on Friday, but when something like this happens, the novelty generally wears off by the next day. My friend and I deduced that the students' parents were probably a bit "on edge" this weekend as they had to find a new supplier. The side effects of addictions are pretty far-reaching.