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Misspelling of the Day
My favorite misspelling this week: "I like to suffer the Internet."
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The suspense almost killed me.
I handed in my grades and received my last salary bank transfer. Ah ... freedom! Also, the school offered me another full-time position next semester, which makes me feel good. Although the school has its problems, I generally enjoy teaching there and am considering it ( Read more... ) -
Freedom
Thanks to the awesome moderntime, I have discovered a way to make life easier. Instead of walking a mile to the grocery store, sweating in the non-air-conditioned store, being bumped like a pinball in the narrow aisles, and struggling to get what I can carry into a taxi and back home, now I just have these people deliver my groceries ( Read more... ) -
Numb and Number
I saw the doctor again today, and she looked over my MRI results pretty carefully. No new lesions, and the old lesions are almost gone. That's good news. I've had increased numbness for the last three or four days; I wonder if it has to do with this cold I'm nursing. It's not disabling numbness -- just annoying ( Read more... ) -
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I've just spent almost all day getting an MRI. Then, after finally stepping up to the machine and holding still while they took pictures of my brain, the machine broke. They got the images, but they can't print the films. I have to go back tomorrow ( Read more... ) -
Stuff Going On
School has started, and my classes have gone well so far. We've only met three times, but the students are all ears. I think they've heard that I'm good at teaching writing and they think that I'll help them pass the test that qualifies them to go overseas ( Read more... ) -
Rats!
I finished work yesterday, when I turned in my final exam grades ( Read more... ) -
Quotes
Why You Should Think before You Speak in the Classroom
ME: Did you hear why the woman on the recording doesn't like beaches?
CLASS: Yes, all those people so close.
ME: No, actually, she said, "All those people with no clothes." I guess she was somewhere in Europe.
MALE STUDENT: I want to go THERE on holiday.
ME: It's not as fun as you think.
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