Sebastien Tellier on Eurovision

Best, most worthy contestant ever!

why i once liked hiphop

THE blog is coming

Its saturday night. hopefully the last one i will spend in captivity. i became hungry a couple of hours ago but since i have no fridge and the nearest convenience store is 40 minutes walk away, im going to preserve energy by lying in bed and flicking through various manuals, textbooks and listening to old mixes. i studied for about 30 minutes which seemed like a healthy amount without overdoing it.

i am becoming alarmed by the lack of movies, books and insightful thoughts that i have neither seen, nor read nor had lately.

i am also wondering why i have not been blogging about work or day to day life in general. there have been some amazing, strange and horrible stories and characters. that i have not been able to explain what this year has been like for me, shows my limitations with a keyboard . the second and probably equally likely reason is a lack of time. untill recently on top of the homeroom teaching job i foolishly took on some business classes at night that took a sizeable dent of my time to do things like eat, sleep and think.

in short, so much of my time has been spent at work and outside of work talkign about work with people from welll...work that to write about it some more would be defeating.

to be continued.....

in the meantime i might be playing soccer tomorrow

Three weeks to go.

I looked at apartments yesterday.

At school, it's becoming increasingly difficult to motivate myself to plan lessons properly. My mind is elsewhere and im becoming crabby at the kids.

I have no energy, 6 day working weeks with the same 17 kids have worn me out. I should be making more effort rather than excuses for my increasingly sorry attempts at teaching, but i dont have the energy to do so.

My students are becoming increasingly painful. Polite requests to sit down and do ones work are met with an insolent "why?" There are only so many ways you can reason with a 10 year old before you realise that not all 10 year olds are reasonable people.

Only three more weeks to go!

“It would seem that this precious trio had reached a complete agreement that, if one happens to be a teacher, one should, like some wooden statue, grin and bare whatever insults anyone cares to offer.”

Soseki Natsume “I am a cat” volume 2

day 10,229

today i turned 10,299 days old.

i excited about an interview i have on wednesday.

i am worried that working too much might do permanant damage to my personality.

i have commited myself to being a cleaner person. i will trim my nails often and wash my hair every night. the change has been inspired by a new set of drawers i go that hang in my cuboard. the drawers have inspired me to become more organised and to compartmentalise my life into clearly defined, productive units.

as well as this i am worried about the long term effects of being with someone you dont love and whether the side effect of this emotional recklessness is working too hard.

last week i had fun helping a friend write some english copy for a bank he was designing a brochure for. my favorite lines were

"you're in safe hands"
"tommorows banking, today."
"think globally, bank locally"
"good times, great banking"

i will blog more