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Feb. 5th, 2008 08:36 am- I'm taking a day off from school today... to deal with Chinese school stuff. (taxes, bank accounts, etc). Just dropped off the lesson plans at school. I hope this doesn't set my work back too much.
- I'm waiting for the traffic to get better (after 9, hopefully), before I head down to Palo Alto.
- Thursday isChinese Lunar New Year! Yay!
- I was going to teach about Charlemagne, but I suddenly found myself teaching the Crusades. Go figure.
- My shoulder hurts after playing the Wii. It still hurts after stopping since Wednesday. It's in fact worse today. (Good thing I'm taking a day off, I don't think I can write on the board.) I think it's been exacerbated by the fact that I sleep on this shoulder. The internet has not been very helpful. Most of the comments are "You guys need to work out more" Or "The soreness will go away in a few days". I *know* this isn't ordinary muscle soreness. I like ordinary muscle soreness. This is joint stress and inflammation. So I take my aleve-alternative and hope for the best. But still, stupid internet comments frustrate me. Being only able to play the Wii in a one-week-on, one-week-off basis frustrates me.
- I have a big long entry started about the State of the Teaching, talking about power that I don't feel I have a right to, and responsibility that keep me awake, as well as the joys and pains of having essentially a daily deadline and preparing 3 different lessons. Of being performer, mentor, and cop for 6 hours a day. And then preparing for the next day. But it's not really done yet.
- My BTSA mentor said, "I didn't have a social life like you do in my first year". Yes, hello Parents, Chinese School, and BADASS. Good-bye, relaxing weekends. Parents want me to give up BADASS because it's to much of an energy drain on Friday nights. I tell them that I make the decision about physical vs. emotional energy on a case-by-case basis.
- It's hard to stain a futon frame when you get home after 7 and it's too dark/cold out to do anything.
- I've been doodling during staff meetings. Currently I have a downer comic about stress, and the first 3 panels of a comic that might involve a cross-dresser. Tomorrow is another staff meeting.
- I'm waiting for the traffic to get better (after 9, hopefully), before I head down to Palo Alto.
- Thursday is
- I was going to teach about Charlemagne, but I suddenly found myself teaching the Crusades. Go figure.
- My shoulder hurts after playing the Wii. It still hurts after stopping since Wednesday. It's in fact worse today. (Good thing I'm taking a day off, I don't think I can write on the board.) I think it's been exacerbated by the fact that I sleep on this shoulder. The internet has not been very helpful. Most of the comments are "You guys need to work out more" Or "The soreness will go away in a few days". I *know* this isn't ordinary muscle soreness. I like ordinary muscle soreness. This is joint stress and inflammation. So I take my aleve-alternative and hope for the best. But still, stupid internet comments frustrate me. Being only able to play the Wii in a one-week-on, one-week-off basis frustrates me.
- I have a big long entry started about the State of the Teaching, talking about power that I don't feel I have a right to, and responsibility that keep me awake, as well as the joys and pains of having essentially a daily deadline and preparing 3 different lessons. Of being performer, mentor, and cop for 6 hours a day. And then preparing for the next day. But it's not really done yet.
- My BTSA mentor said, "I didn't have a social life like you do in my first year". Yes, hello Parents, Chinese School, and BADASS. Good-bye, relaxing weekends. Parents want me to give up BADASS because it's to much of an energy drain on Friday nights. I tell them that I make the decision about physical vs. emotional energy on a case-by-case basis.
- It's hard to stain a futon frame when you get home after 7 and it's too dark/cold out to do anything.
- I've been doodling during staff meetings. Currently I have a downer comic about stress, and the first 3 panels of a comic that might involve a cross-dresser. Tomorrow is another staff meeting.
