I’ve spent an hour this Saturday doing one of my favourite things, reading. Some people call reading a hobby, and it kind of is if you’ve got reading goals or targets and you take time to carefully select your next book, planning the order of things being read etc. Like I do. However I don’t see rea...
Keeping up a daily diary is not as easy as one might think. It’s not as simple as just putting your thoughts down onto paper. Sometimes I don’t have any thoughts at all, or at least no way of putting them into words. Today was one of those that is truly exhausting, and it’s nearing 10PM and not yet...
Why does Monday always have to be difficult? Even though it is my easiest day at work. I have my lightest teaching load with only one class to actually teach and one meeting. The rest of the time I have free periods to get planning done and whatever other tasks have fallen into my lap that week. So ...
Staring out with firm goals and a determined mind does not guarantee a success. When I made the promise to myself that I would get back to journal writing and make an entry here every day I didn’t know that I would soon come down with pneumonia. I suppose it’s not really my fault, directly anyway, ...
My second day back served as an excellent reminder of the hardest part of my job. It’s not what you might think, dealing with the kids. It’s actually dealing with the idiocy and childishness of some of my colleagues. Three grown men all above the age of 35 writing complaint emails back and forth bu...
You know it’s going to be rocky start to the school semester when the principal sends you an email with a new timetable because two teachers have unexpectedly not turned up to work after the holiday and now the whole staff have to rally round and compensate for it. This whole day feels like it happ...
Today was my last day of a four week break from work and tomorrow I must return to the grind. I am both glad and sad at its arrival. Sad of course because we all prefer to be on holiday than to go into work, but glad also because finally the dread at this day’s arrival can end. The nightmares about ...
It’s not quite the new year, considering we are already well into February, but one can set themselves up for a new start whenever they feel like it. I don’t believe there is a necessity in waiting for the 1st of January to start a new resolution. So here I am, trying a new journal writing format, ...
