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I am writing this on my brand new MacBook Pro, courtesy Manual, thank you very much. I needed a high-end design computer for home, and I got it. It is, as my students keep telling me, sexy.
I'm not keeping up with LJ well these days - not keeping up with much of anything, really. Time with husband: nil. House: disaster. Diet: months of neglect (but back on track). Exercise: on and off. School: totally on the ball.
It is so amazingly easy to go to work this year. I have always enjoyed teaching, even when I'm in the most stressful environment, but this year I am completely enjoying nearly every minute of it. I have one class that has a few moronic boys in it (i.e. they laugh at things they think are "gay") but other than those twerps, time flies when I'm teaching. I am so incredibly lucky. If I could only pick up Manual and transplant it to some country not at war that is doing something about global warming and has socialized healthcare, life couldn't get much better.
I watched Sicko last night, which is the only MM film I haven't seen in the theaters. I didn't feel compelled to make special arrangements to see it in a theater like I did the others because it's such a depressing subject - I know everything he's going to say about how bad things are here and it's just going to make me want to move far far away. And it did. There weren't enough laughable moments to ease the impact of it all. Maybe he wants to be taken more seriously.
And. Well. I feel totally hopeless about the state of things in this nation. I find myself still reading the news out of habit but I can't stand reading anything about the Middle East in particular. Too much despair. Work and Kieran are good distractions.
I'm not keeping up with LJ well these days - not keeping up with much of anything, really. Time with husband: nil. House: disaster. Diet: months of neglect (but back on track). Exercise: on and off. School: totally on the ball.
It is so amazingly easy to go to work this year. I have always enjoyed teaching, even when I'm in the most stressful environment, but this year I am completely enjoying nearly every minute of it. I have one class that has a few moronic boys in it (i.e. they laugh at things they think are "gay") but other than those twerps, time flies when I'm teaching. I am so incredibly lucky. If I could only pick up Manual and transplant it to some country not at war that is doing something about global warming and has socialized healthcare, life couldn't get much better.
I watched Sicko last night, which is the only MM film I haven't seen in the theaters. I didn't feel compelled to make special arrangements to see it in a theater like I did the others because it's such a depressing subject - I know everything he's going to say about how bad things are here and it's just going to make me want to move far far away. And it did. There weren't enough laughable moments to ease the impact of it all. Maybe he wants to be taken more seriously.
And. Well. I feel totally hopeless about the state of things in this nation. I find myself still reading the news out of habit but I can't stand reading anything about the Middle East in particular. Too much despair. Work and Kieran are good distractions.