halloween week & pure exhaustion

Glad this week is over. Halloween = sugar madness & lots of wrappers on my floor. Plus, the kids are in a phase of testing the limits and figuring out that the freshmen downstairs hog the security that we don't have enough of.
I had my first "That's it! I'm quitting!" moment of the year this week. It always happens around this time: You start to get tired & irritated & stressed, etc. You question if you're actually meant to do this. You look around your room, at your students, and see a room full of kids that just. don't. care. Nothing excites them, teachers annoy them, everything goes in one ear and out the other, they make a big deal out of you asking them to do what you see as a simple task... the list goes on. You ask the question: What would posess a sane grown person to put themselves in the position to be told off, ignored and criticized by teenagers? It all seems worthless, useless and a waste of your time.
And then the moment passed. It comes, I let it in, hold on through it and try to not let it affect my teaching that much. I figure that's better than denying it or trying to ignore it. I'm pretty sure it happens to every teacher at some point in time during every year. It was probably caused by a little laziness in my planning, being behind in grading and feeling incredibly exhausted.

But it was Halloween! We didn't really do much, since no treat-or-treaters come to our apartment, extreme exhaustion (seriously, I never woke up! I was the walking dead) and the height of my debating whether or not to continue on being a teacher (ohhh, woeee is meeee!), we watched movies!
Here are some good ones we watched:
Fido: Set in the 1950s, about the world after the "Zombie Wars". Involves zombies, but I would say most people would enjoy this even if they don't like zombie movies. It's supposed to be a "boy and his dog" movie, but with zombies instead of dogs. I thought it was very clever and I got a few good laughs out of it.
Wait Until Dark: Audrey Hepburn plays a blind woman who's terrorized by three guys trying to find a doll with drugs stashed in it. It's a slower moving movie, but pretty awesome.
Hellraiser: It's supposed to be scary, but it's hiiiiilarious. Soo much that was supposed to be scary was just absolutely ridiculous and made me giggle a whole lot.
30 Days of Night: This we went to see in the theater on Sunday. I wasn't expecting much, it looked pretty cheesy from the previews. It ended up being pretty interesting and worth the time and money. You could definitely see the influence of the graphic novel, which was great.
If you are looking for a good horror/psychological thriller/suspense movie, try A Tale of Two Sisters. It's amazing and actually had me on the edge of my seat.