----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We all float on Throat coat needed around here, too. First sign of fall and my body apparently freaks out. Sore throat, achy ears, exhaustion and sniffles. Lovely. I know it didn't help that I worked a 12-hour day on Monday but that's the price I pay for doing no work at all over the weekend. It was lovely while it lasted. True story: I didn't drive until I was a freshman in college. And by "freshman in college" I mean sleeping through my morning classes at the community college and, typically, yawning my way through the afternoon ones. I think remembering how I was placed on academic probation that first semester helps me understand some of my students better. My parents both have advanced degrees but for various reasons I had very little interest in school initially--I mean, I did on a big picture level, but I couldn't figure out how that applied to my day-to-day life. I also just wasn't prepared for the shift from high school to college. The shift to being accountable for my time--and responsible for the consequences that came with that. I do think my parents' divorce had some affect on all of that. My mother worked the swing shift at the hospital until after I moved out and I didn't see her a lot. My dad was 1500 miles away and we rarely talked, much less saw one another. I think in many ways I felt alone. Sometimes alone felt like freedom and sometimes it overwhelmed. I don't even know what my point is except that I hope you make it (made it?) to the museum. We need moments where everything seems OK, normal even, right? Meanwhile, I just want a nap but now I have to teach a class to students who, like long-ago me, are probably partying too much and floating on without much direction. Some of them anyway. 10:14 am - 20.09.17
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a little less dreadful - 29.09.17 - 9:10 pm So that's that. - 27.09.17 - 9:31 pm bring your own lampshade, somewhere there's a pity party - 26.09.17 - 6:25 pm autumnal malaise - 25.09.17 - 7:10 pm in which i hate feeling as though i'm not acing this thing - 22.09.17 - 6:11 pm |
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