Back to work. I was absolutely brilliant (notice me embracing the new resolution), except when I wasn't. No comment on the ratio there. The students were like "Oh God" every time we talked about actually doing something. They seemed to expect us to hand out cigars and flick on the tube. I am very thankful that I don't take shit from people. I told them to shut the hell up or I'd go back to the banging-knuckles routine from the old days. Really, it is amazing how a small group of people can monopolize a situation, if you allow them. Kinda like those right-wing religious people who talk as if they are a mammoth group of righteous churches, all banded together in their zeal to be saved while the rest of us drown. Oh, but I do exaggerate. I'm quite sure the students were simply a mite perkier than usual after their wholesome family time. And many religious zealots are my best friends. Or maybe I just met one once, and I almost sorta thought about liking him?
Another tidbit of strange phenomena: my stats page, which I check to see who's perusing around here, says that no one is reading. Yet I have 4 comments. Obviously there is a glitch. That little gal in the computer may be on holiday. My brain is so busy creating ideas and expressing innovative thoughts that it cannot take on a techno-question. Plus, I'm not quite as adept at figuring out cyber-crap than I might be. What am I doing wrong? Perhaps a reader, or maybe the dog, will let me know what's happened?
Oh my. All of that positive re-framing was an incredible drain on my naturally bitchy ego. Must stick with thinking positive thoughts about my self for a portion of the day, and determine the portion on random whim. Off to "chillax," as one of my students says. I'd call it meditation, or quiet time, but my portion's up, and I gotta go lie on the bed and rest my weary ass.
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nd many religious zealots are my best friends. Or maybe I just met one once, and I almost sorta thought about liking him?
ReplyDeleteHeh heh heh. I am chuckling so evilly over this. Fortunately, I made no promises to be more positive this year.
A wise choice.
ReplyDeleteWhy set myself up for failure?
ReplyDeletetop o the new year to u, lucygirl. i returned from visiting m&d so many states away and really liked it, for once in my life. so i thought again about moving back to that average city and now know that longing won't ever be a practical 'yes.' so i feel like i'm in a lonely cave, even tho the politics in this state took a turn for the better today. i wish i could figure out how to partner and parent simultaneously; it seems most folks do it. my brain needs a crocheting project or a paint-the-bathroom project or a lot of running; i have no excuse with this weird winter weather.
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oops, that anonymous was me, the one who lives very near that city where you grew up, me, with slr initials.
ReplyDeleteThat's a relief because you really didn't sound like a sir.
ReplyDeleteThanks for reading-