Today was ...

... not what I would call a successful day of teaching.

Starting with not being properly amused by the individual antics of my preschoolers.
Followed by a 5 year-old with a nosebleed.
Then a kid asking about my new necklace:  "So, if I pull too hard, it will break?"
"Yes, it will break."
And ... YANK.
And then, what exactly?  The grumpiness that resulted from all of this led eventually to treating my last class with utter disdain, in response to their volume level and general rowdiness, eventually ending the school day with a kid I've had for 10 months telling me, "I think bad teacher."
"I've had you every day for 10 months.  I'm a bad teacher every day or just today?"
"Just today."
"Well, I think maybe you were a bad student today, too."

Not really a day to be proud of.

But then I skipped the report cards, ate dinner, watched some mindless TV, and then saw a friend's band play in a venue so tiny most of the patrons stood on the sidewalk to watch.  Later, I went with two lovely friends and their dog to a favorite bar to eat dokbokki and we got sucked into watching "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs" with the sound turned down, and suddenly life felt a lot more manageable. 

Thankfully, tomorrow is a new day.

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Woah!

Watch out!

New layout!

I just couldn't resist this picture ... so, here we are.  The first major template/layout change since 2005.  I can tell the text will be a little bit more difficult to read, but several of the handful of you that read this are reading it via RSS feed anyway, so ... I'm going to give it a try.  At least for a little while.

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p.s.  While I do have an awesome air-conditioner in my apartment, I also added a new fan that I bought yesterday, and it's blowing on me right now, and it's AWESOME.

p.p.s. Tomorrow I'm going to try to get report cards done, and after that, I'm going to see about writing to you, dearest Internet.  Are you ready?