last night was miserable night #1, the one where I stay up for hours because I'm coughing every ten seconds no matter how much codeine I take. Tomorrow will be the same, then I'll be on the road to improvement. Woke up an hour later than I planned, but I couldn't have done anything about it. I had to have been up until 3 or 5, and I woke up ( Read more... )

ok, first my pre-advanced class complains i don't do enough grammar.... so tonight mary observed me, y'know, quality assurance and all, tell the students that we pay attention to their complaints. then today, after the pre-intermediate class, I saw three of those at her office door. After today's evening class I was informed I'd be switching ( Read more... )

I never believed I'd say this ( Read more... )

IH morning class schedules go 9-11 and 11:30-1:30, with each teacher teaching a different class each period. teaching the intermediates first thing was decent. The pre-ints, though, were dears! I like 'em. And guess what? Erin's sick all week, and I hope she feels better soon, but that means I get four days of four-hour-a-day cover. That'll ( Read more... )

monday: class, nap, guinea pigging for michelle's experiment, class, teaching. an 11-hour day with a 40-minute break for the nap ( Read more... )

i am so tired right now ( Read more... )

oh my crap ( Read more... )

crummy night tonight: 60 bucks, and both in the last ten minutes of canvassing. last night's 300 means I'm already almost set for the week, though. Since Saturday's fundraising counts towards this week's quota, I have $600 to do. At the end of tonight, I have $105 to go for the week.

Z's home from NY.

Tonight I did karaoke with wolfe_guardian. That we had ( Read more... )

One of our new canvassers has a roommate whose family is in Peru and may have been hit by the enormous earthquake there. I don't know if it's corny to say that my thoughts are over there, but they are. Also to mention: the mine cave-in in Utah. Seismic activity is happenin' all over, man. The world is a scary place ( Read more... )

today's lesson was not so good. The pronunciation drills lasted so long I didn't get to my speaking activity. oooops ( Read more... )