Two unexpected stressors this morning, one entirely my own fault!
1. They were short on teachers at Math Circle, so they asked me to take a table. A) It was hard to hear anyone because twenty kids were constantly talking. B) I had no idea how to reply kids that would just reject the premise of the problems. "OK, just hang out then"? C) One kid tried to tie my arm up with a string, poked at me with a pencil, and went under a table. (Also, possibly, he let one go? The smell was not great.) Suffice to say, I could get him to engage with the problems.
Every time I looked over at the guy's table, everyone was just discussing and doing the problems, without any poking or hiding. Was I just unlucky? And/or do I just not have enough charisma?
2. On the drive back, I was thinking about how we couldn't do D&D on the first weekend I thought of because we were going to be in North Carolina. Then, I realized that the judo tournament (with a significant number of competitors outside of the dojo) was also that weekend. I thought about just skipping it, but it would take a lot of wind out of the guy's sails. We're lucky that he's excited to compete.
We did get the flight moved (albeit to a 6 AM flight back, but what can you do), but of course, jetblue.com sucks, and when you log in as they ask you, it looks like it loses the flight reschedule and dumps you back to the home page. If you do happen to try clicking on Manage Flights, your rescheduling state is restored.