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I think I have a job. It's a one-time four day teaching gig in April preparing sixteen-year-olds for their school leaving exam in English. A friend hooked me up because he's too busy and I'm mostly considering it because it pays so well that I'd even sacrifice missing three classes for it. It would be sixteen hours of work and pay 250€ (about $350). Preparation is minimal since I get all the material I have to teach and it's mostly revising if clauses and stuff almost anyone can do in their sleep. My only apprehension is that it involves four days of four hours each in a room with a dozen teenagers and there is a reason why I never considered teaching people who hadn't gone through puberty yet as a career move. I know I can do it for a short time span but forever or even for months at a time? Never. Not that my education would qualify me for it anyway, so I'm not in the risk of ending up doing it for a living by accident.
I did nothing today. I watched TV and took a long nap and made a to-do list out of which I didn't do anything though I need to remedy that later. That horrible and completely misguided personal statement for funding I'm not going to get anyway needs to be revised a couple more times before the deadline on Monday. That thing is a complete mess and nothing is going to fix it. Because nobody believes that a person with a graduate degree in English is going to contribute so much to making the state a better place.
I finished the Veronica Mars novel. It was not what I expected which was primarily because the authors (Rob Thomas and Jennifer Graham) chose to go with an omniscient narrator instead of from Veronica's POV. That threw me for a loop and made it way less enjoyable. Also, because of the format, the stories now need to all be huge (murder, kidnapping) and never anything small, because less material is being put out but that makes it seem like Neptune it this super dangerous place. I wasn't expecting a literary masterwork but that 3rd person narration just frustrated me.
And that's the last reading I'll be doing in the next week or so because I need to tackle Robinson and Foe, not read new stuff, even if it's light and fluffy like a novel based on a TV show.
I did nothing today. I watched TV and took a long nap and made a to-do list out of which I didn't do anything though I need to remedy that later. That horrible and completely misguided personal statement for funding I'm not going to get anyway needs to be revised a couple more times before the deadline on Monday. That thing is a complete mess and nothing is going to fix it. Because nobody believes that a person with a graduate degree in English is going to contribute so much to making the state a better place.
I finished the Veronica Mars novel. It was not what I expected which was primarily because the authors (Rob Thomas and Jennifer Graham) chose to go with an omniscient narrator instead of from Veronica's POV. That threw me for a loop and made it way less enjoyable. Also, because of the format, the stories now need to all be huge (murder, kidnapping) and never anything small, because less material is being put out but that makes it seem like Neptune it this super dangerous place. I wasn't expecting a literary masterwork but that 3rd person narration just frustrated me.
And that's the last reading I'll be doing in the next week or so because I need to tackle Robinson and Foe, not read new stuff, even if it's light and fluffy like a novel based on a TV show.