Jeebus.

Three more weeks.  Three more weeks.  That deserves double RTF.

I made it through 9 plus months of teaching, and now they want me to teach for three more weeks.

I've discovered a wealth of skills that can go on the CV now, guaranteed to impress potential employers:

• The ability to produce a dry-erase marker from any pocket, regardless of ( Read more... )

Looking back a few posts, and comparing that to how I'm feeling now, is presenting me with a rather awkward picture of myself.  In the simplest terms, I have alternating stretches where I am winning at life, coupled with cycles where life is definitely holding all the chips, and I can't help but think that there shouldn't be any winning or losing ( Read more... )

I've recently started exercising on a more regular basis, and somehow I simultaneously managed to immerse myself in the delusion that I would change into an incredible person, simply by changing my physiological status. Are you kidding me?

I am who I am. Initiating coping sequence:

• I like physics, but am not naturally gifted in mathematics
• I'm ( Read more... )

I feel surprisingly o.k. for having woken up at 4 am yesterday, after 3.5 hours of sleep, and flying back to London from Berlin. Today has so much promise (yet here I am, playing around on the world wide webs) for being productive and useful. I've already made my bed, eaten breakfast, separated the laundry by color, and started a load of whites ( ( Read more... )

I've had four days now of freedom from school without any other obligations, due to a bit of a delay between the start of my Easter holidays, and my trip to Germany. In that time I've...done some laundry. And that's about it. This four day period is the epitome of how that low feeling feels; that non-committal, passive approach to life. I'm not ( Read more... )

Occasionally I get the impression that I'm not using my time effectively; as I walk to school in the mornings I think about all the things that I could do with my life and I imagine myself achieving success in various scenarios, each a bit less realistic that the first. I contemplate a return to Montana in which I take the land I have been given ( Read more... )

I purchased these pretty neat sneakers from Famous Footwear a few months ago, but haven't worn them too much until now. They're those nike ACG goofiness, and they've got big, chunky, 'traction-y' cleats on them, but they're still pretty light. Anyways, when I walk on linoleum flooring, the little cleats each hit at an infinitesimally different ( Read more... )

Its truly disgusting how much a person can get done when they apply themselves. The contrapositive being that when an opportunity is taken to expend a little pent-up slovenly slacking, nothing at all gets done, and then you get tied up in front of the academic review board and shot down like a duck with one wing ( Read more... )

The smile fades ( Read more... )

The computers at the library haven't been able to access hotmail for about five days now. I used an old yahoo account to contact my mom, just to let her know that I was doing well. I found out 6 minutes ago that she replied that she had been sending emails for days now, trying to contact me, because Grandpa Tio has stomach cancer ( Read more... )