Conferences

I have parent/teacher conferences tonight and next Thursday. My school conducts conferences four nights per year. I am in my 25th year of teaching and this means the upcoming conference nights will be my 99th and 100th. I don't know why numbers like this interest me, but they do. It boggles my mind to think that I have worked through a hundred nights of meeting with parents. Each conference night is about 4 hours long. Over 25 years that's 400 hours, which works out to roughly 50 school days. I've spent the equivalent of 50 work days meeting with parents. It sure seems like a lot when I put it in those terms.