5.17.2007,10:15
the way things go
It's hard to find something to blog about when you get stuck in the whole work cycle and it starts
EATING YOUR BRAIN
that's right, no brains left here. Sometimes I think my students slurp them directly out of my head with straws. It's almost relentless. I think we see more of each other than any of us see of our families or friends. And every night I go to class and am like,
LEARN. Are you smarter yet? LEARN.
And they're mostly a really hard working group, so they mostly do learn, but sometimes it drives me CRAZY because the people who most need to hear what I'm saying are the people who are like
BLAH BLAH BLAH. I already know this. I'll just distract others.
And it makes you want to smack them upside the head because you're like,
no, actually, you don't know how to structure an essay. And I can tell because I mark everything you write. :)
Cheeky.
 
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5.08.2007,10:07
wii get to play!
It finally happened yesterday, after soo many weeks of patience, and now I have to go to work. There's just no justice.
 
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5.04.2007,10:40
a beautiful day in the neighbourhood
mmm, outside my window I see sunbeams, blue sky, and puffy white clouds and it is true that May is just a better month than April folks - it's when things actually turn nice here in the 'couve. My windowsill roses certainly think so - I've got something like 10 blooms right now, and buds galore.

There will be no beautiful day out in the neighbourhood for me today though. I'm sick, and have been since Wednesday. Feverish, tonsils and throat all swollen, ears blocked, sinuses - well anyways, I could go on. And I thought now that it was actually spring all this winter sickness crap was supposed to be over. I totally croaked through my last two days teaching this week, relied on advil cold and sinus to keep me functioning - fuzzy, but functioning. So today is my day of rest. Time to recover, and maybe even do a whole whack of marking. It's a good thing I have such great students right now, or I would have just fallen flat on my face this week.
 
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