Yesterday, the Director of Center F. was not there. But the Center was functional. I asked the office assistant about the Director's absence and she told me something "came up" to prevent her from being there that day. The on-vacation long-term tutor has still not returned.

Yesterday evening, actually a few hours ago, I did something dumb: I stayed ( Read more... )

As I write this, I am concocting a plan to leave Center F. I figure that in the worst case, I might notify the Center F. sometime in late June or early July that I will not be able to return the following fall. If it comes to that, I might notify the Director when she is on vacation overseas, as she usually is in the summer. In this way, I can skip ( Read more... )

Yesterday, I went to tutoring at the usual time. But when I got there, I found that my first student was not coming. I notified the office manager and she told me that there was a mix-up and the student was rescheduled for another day. This means that I was there for the first 30 minutes without a student to tutor. I am not complaining about being ( Read more... )

Yesterday was disappointing as I did little to study. I did study for a few minutes by watching videos and taking notes. But not much. I think I sabotaged myself by watching a few videos on YouTube in the morning. I should learn to stop. At least I got something done.

Learning
Probability Theory: not much yesterday.
Series 6: up to 29.2% done

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Yesterday, I got a good deal of studying done but it went by too slowly. It took me hours just to get through some 30 pages. That is about one-tenth of the book. And I noticed that some pages were literal repeats of others. I took careful notes and was also able to get some quiz practice done but my results were disheartening. I deem yesterday to ( Read more... )

Yesterday, I did not get much studying done, mainly because of tutoring. I have found that I study my best during the afternoons and evenings. I tried to get some done in the mornings but things always seem to pop up. Since tutoring is mainly done during afternoons and evenings, it cuts into my progress. This idea of tutoring impeding my study ( Read more... )

Today is the eleventh anniversary of the beginning of the happiest years of my thirties. You can read about it here: https://diaryof40ishman.livejournal.com/202319.html. Eleven years ago, it was [also] Monday, December 2nd 2013. I could go on and on about how it was the happiest time ( Read more... )

Yesterday morning, I had a session at Center F. I felt upset when going to the session. But thankfully, the session was shortened by a little bit. I saw what seemed to be a new student from the sixth grade. This is one of my gripes with the Center: giving me younger students. To my surprise, it was his older brother who was visiting from college. I ( Read more... )

Usually, in the Saturday after Thanksgiving, I have not had to work at Center F. I believe it is closed. I haven't worked on the Saturday after Thanksgiving during 2021, 2022, and last year on 2023. So, when I got a message from the director that I have a session today, I was surprised. Not only surprised but upset. To top it off, the message came ( Read more... )

Thanksgiving went alright yesterday. I got in plenty of time with both nieces. With my older niece, I got to play as usual but with new "games." With my younger niece, I am finding new, funny ways to play with her. One of them involves me saying simple words like "bye-bye" or "hello" and she repeats after me and then smiles. She is mirroring and ( Read more... )