Gah. I have bonus other forms of feeling-ill-ness now, including a v sore throat, so I just emailed my manager and told him I won’t be in tomorrow/later today. Teaching with a sore throat is the WORST THING and I’m not doing it ( Read more... )

So I have reached a milestone in my career as a teacher: the first time I hated a student ( Read more... )

Five Real Life things ( under the cut )

This has been an unfun week in some ways: either LJ was down or the internet was, plus a south-Vietnam-wide power cut that lasted for hoooours yesterday while I died from lack of air conditioning ( Read more... )

A real low: feeling unhappy and inadequate (and BEING inadequate) and not wanting to do the drabble meme because I will probably still feel/be unable to write and then I will feel MORE unhappy and inadequate ( Read more... )

Bleurgh. Mondays are usually my blissful day off after a hardcore weekend: no teaching, and no worrying yet about doing all my lesson planning and making materials. But I have a stomach bug. I’ve spent eighteen of the last twenty-four hours asleep, and much of the other six throwing up ( Read more... )

It’s not the teachers who are meant to dream about going to school naked ( Read more... )

Sort of headachey today, probably because I'm stressed. (Also haven't eaten yet despite being up super-early. But I need to wait for another couple of hours, until it's not the heat of the day, because I would rather be hungry than hot.) Nothing too bad; I had observations of other people's classes this weekend, and tomorrow I have a day of ( Read more... )