Normalcy? What is that? For the PNA 8th grade, it means settling in to routines, doing homework, participating in sports or other extracurricular activities, recycling chores for the school, taking math tests, staging a scavenger hunt for EKers, heading to the woods to study ecosystem interactions, planning, rehearsing, and running an all school assembly, starting an eleventh hour silverware drive for the fall festival, going out to lunch, putting in some time moving wood for the Park Project, investigating, writing and revising like journalists, reading for deep study of character, and just plain laughing like 13 and 14 year olds.  Normalcy around here is exhausting, challenging, satisfying, and can even be pretty fun.