Ok

All right. Monday was a bad day. After I cracked down on my 6th hour and took a much tougher stance with all the behavior issues, this whole week has been better.
In fact, I took control of 2nd hour today unexpectedly when Mrs. F had to stay in a meeting and things went really well. I lost any of my "friends" in there and made some immediate "enemies" when they learned that I won't be pushed around and I know what I'm doing. I'm beginning to think and act like a teacher. I'm so used to students just being nice because I'm there, but now I'm get to deal with the real attitude. Multiple students in my 6th hour wandered in today telling me it was their favorite class. I don't care if they were just saying it to say it, I felt so much more fantastic.
Just wanted to clear up any concern created by my rather discouraged/frustrated post on Monday. Wish me luck on my first official lesson plan created teaching day where I'll be teaching all classes all day.