May 09, 2007 21:50
I'm starting to feel a little bit better after the dreadful day yesterday. This morning was bad but I survived that somehow. I tried to avoid talking to people about next semester, but the subject came up anyway. It seems people feel bad for me and that they think the headmasters have behaved in an appalling way. Several people suggested that I go to the headmasters and ask them what they have in mind for me. I didn't dare go there today but I guess I have to do it tomorrow. I get stomach cramps when I think of that.
I had my usual meeting today with my colleague about the class we share responsibility for. That woman surely has mental problems. She seems to think she is responsible for everything and that we other teachers are just slackers that refuse to do our part of the job. She's working herself up to a nervous breakdown and all for nothing. I felt like hitting her in the face today.
I'm re-reading "Into thin air" by Jon Krakauer at the moment. Nothing to cheer me up like a book about people that freeze to death ; ) Tomorrow it's exactly 11 years since that fateful day on Everest. Krakauer is a very good writer and gives a personal account of what happened that makes you really feel for the people involved.