Is it Christmas break yet?

This last push until exams is always exhausting.  On top of all of the normal work, we have to update exams and review packets and work with students who are starting to panic as the marking period comes to a close.  I've been staying up late working and it's starting to have some strange effects.

For example, yesterday one of my students asked to borrow an eraser to use during his test.  (My poor IB students are always wearing out their erasers in my class!)  I grabbed something out of my box and was halfway over to him before I realized that I was holding a paper clip!  I'm so thankful that I did not actually hand him a paper clip - I would never have lived it down!