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[Apr. 15th, 2009|10:33 pm] |
I'm afraid I don't have a dramatic story to add to the network today. My life is as quiet and uneventful as it always is. My students are completing their assignments more or lesson time, which is a tiny miracle, and my lesson plans are holding up well and actually translating to the classroom without any major troubles. I'm on a lucky streak when it comes to my job.
Outside my work, my life is exactly the way it always is: boring to anyone outside it and perfectly comfortable. I've been reading more than I've been painting, lately (I find myself not having any clear desire to paint these days) and I've been reading a lot of various thriller novels. Nothing particularly worth recommendation or mention, but enough to feed my brain and pass the time.
At this point, I should just give up the lease on my apartment and move into the library. |
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[Mar. 11th, 2009|12:48 am] |
I think I spent more time this evening reading and painting than I did working on my lesson plans. Let's hope hat doesn't reflect in my students' work this week. It's one of the frustrating/rewarding things about teaching: everything you do makes a difference. It's fantastic when you've put in a good effort and receive solid results. It's not quite as good when you don't put in as much effort as you should have, or when the results are less than pleasant. It's a job full of ups and downs.
Thank god the ups are really worth more than anything else and any kind of down.
I'm frustrated at myself this week. The book wasn't even that good! I just simply couldn't stop reading it. It's nothing special, just one of the bestsellers on the shelf at the local bookshop. Bestseller says it all, really: it's easy to read, not particularly well-written, but with a gripping plot. Well, I hope other people would think it was gripping - it definitely gripped me. I actually did more reading than painting, which is unusual.
Later this week, I'm going to ask my students to recreate their experience with the blizzard through canvas. I'm genuinely looking forward to seeing what they'll come up with, and it might make up for three days of not-entirely-refined lessons from my corner.
We'll see. |
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[Feb. 27th, 2009|04:58 pm] |
Well, now that we all seem to be getting back to normal, or as normal as we can after a natural disaster, it seems like as good as time as any to start something new - in this case, joining the network. I've been putting it off for a few weeks, I'll admit. Other things would come up, it would get pushed back to end of the day every day, and then by the time it reached the end of the day, it would inevitably in my fatigue slip to the tomorrow to-do list.
But time trapped in your home is a good time to catch up with those little things, and so here I am, catching up with the little things. My name is Mohinder Suresh and I teach. You or may not know me or my family; my parents came to Harmony a good few decades ago, and we're the only Sureshes in town.
So, hello. Is everyone all right after the blizzard? Is there anything any of you need?
... Does anyone know the little girl that's gone missing? I'm worried about her. Such a small thing, possibly hurt somewhere. |
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