For the one slightly obsessed

No lessons

This week I only have two lessons. The rest of the time will be spent on invidiual talks with the students. I'm looking forwards to it, it's an opportunity to hear how they see things, what they as individual need and what they feel they need me to help them with. In short, it's a chance for me to find out how I can be a better teacher for them.

Good times!

Mood swings

I was in a good mood this morning:



but then my teacher came along, indirectly, and my mood changed drastically:



*sighs*

This too shall pass

If I can endure for this minute
Whatever is happening to me,
No matter how heavy my heart is
Or how dark the moment may be-

If I can remain calm and quiet
With all the world crashing about me,
Secure in the knowledge God loves me
When everyone else seems to doubt me-

If I can but keep on believing
What I know in my heart to be true,
That darkness will fade with the morning
And that this will pass away, too-

Then nothing in life can defeat me
For as long as this knowledge remains
I can suffer whatever is happening
For I know God will break all of the chains

That are binding me tight in the darkness
And trying to fill me with fear-
For there is no night without dawning
And I know that my morning is near.

...Helen Steiner Rice

Overcutifying

When a woman gets to be about my age there are certain things she'll gain a lot from realising. One is that things that were cute when she was a teenager, and are cute in teenage girls today, are not as cute in her any longer.

Ending a message with an expression like *huggzies* is cute when a 14 year old girl does it. Turn the numbers around, suddenly it's more annoying than cute, and brings any kind of credability in the sender tumbling down. If a 41 year old woman peppers her workrelated messages with overcutifications (it's a word in desperate need of being coined, so here you go, world! It means trying to create an impression of being younger than you actually are by doing pathetic imitations of the ones who are the age you are trying to imitate) like *giggles* and *perty* and *thinkelinkling* I will have to struggle so hard to take in what she actually has to say, regardless of the lvl of wisdome in it, that I most likely will not do it.

Yes, I am an old cranky woman, and yes of course people are allowed to write how ever they please. At least as long as THEY are willing to take the consequenses of it and do not try to make ME do that.

Not me!

There might be some really small and unsignificant burn marks in a table (or two) and just for the record - I had nothing what so ever to do with that!

Really, I didn't!