Morning classes. Several attempts at resistance from the more reticent students. "Why don't you give up?" - "We're not doing anything for you anyway." - "sds. Pah!" Some students in that particular class (the one with the bad math grades) have meanwhile taken to explicit language and recycling 3rd Reich vocabulary. "There are teachers and there are ( Read more... )

A storm and a susbequent drop in temperature was finally followed the first snowfall this season. Curiously enough, at lunch break three snowballs impacted within an area that roughly approximated my personal space when I left that school where I'm sort of teaching classes. I guess a fair fraction of them is frustrated for not having started their ( Read more... )

It's January and it's not freezing - it's not even cold! Definitely not cold enough to snow. There wasn't any snow in town so far this winter. Not that I wouldn't appreciate the resulting safety on the roads. Well, it's not exactly warm, either, but I wouldn't go as far as calling our days chilly. Maybe it's just slightly cool. That sort of ( Read more... )

Well, here I am. Been working around the apartment all day just to get a good start on getting my mess organized here. naj'Iw mIgh has been here for two months now and I'm beginning to get a clearer idea of what I want to keep where in the long run ( Read more... )

Never before have I completed my Christmas shopping in as little time as this year! - I went to town barely an hour ago and I'm already home again with gifts for everybody. (Okay, it's only 3 people, but still...)

So, that's the end of the week before the Christmas break, isn't it? It's hard to believe somehow. My flat is a bit messy from accommodating naj'Iw mIgh, I'll still go to the financial consulting company tomorrow ... well, today, really. But the morning is reserved for Christmas shopping. The Christmas market has been around since the end of ( Read more... )

There was a little warning yesterday: after the engine stalled, I couldn't get it to start again. Fortunately it turned out that with the cold and humidity of the night the motor had only drowned. But a quick look around revealed that a fuse had melted in its socket. I didn't even bother to check which one it was. But it was the ventilator and had ( Read more... )

Sometimes I have the impression, that I don't connect very well with people, because I just can't help deconstructing their imaginations which they would rather hold for real. Here's an example:
Why take drugs when lack of sleep will do?

After weeks of effort and a quota of zero this month, my coach came along to one of my visits to a potential customer from my own circle of acquaintances to do a quality check. Basically I burned all my reseves in the first two months and now I'm left mostly with those numbers where people don't answer or if so only sporadically. I'm talking of the ( Read more... )

Somehow I've got the feeling that until this autumn I never knew what work really is ...