Five RL things make a quite boring post
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lokifanFive Real Life things
1. Finished first proper week of new job = TIRED, even though the job’s just part-time. I spent this weekend doing nothing except make icons and catch up on LJ and I’m still kind of tired today, even though today is work again. Must keep in mind that it generally takes two weeks to adjust to a new job and I won’t always be this OMG TIRED NO WORK, especially when I move out and the commute is no longer NINETY MINUTES EACH WAY, omfg. It’s such a mission and over a third of my pay goes on transport. Makes me way more tired than I would be otherwise, which led to…
2. Left my Kindle on the train last week. :*( SO SAD. I’ve replaced it with a new Kindle Fire, but it’s the new kind that I find I don’t like as much - there’s only one charger port and the case, in particular, is just much less easy to handle and pretty and DOESN’T LIE FLAT AGAINST THE SCREEN WHEN CLOSED, THUS WASTING BATTERY. Am looking into whether I can return the case and have ordered myself a fun galaxies-and-such one off Etsy. But the Kindle itself is pretty good and I have all my highlights & notes on my books back, and the fic I had uploaded there is still on my laptop hard drive and all going back on pretty soon. And it was pretty cheap, 20% off right now. Idk, my last Kindle was my going-away gift to Vietnam from basically all my friends so I had a lot of sentimental attachment to it. But at least I haven’t lost the books.
3. Because I teach from 6-9pm, and then I reach St Pancras with its open M&S at around ten, have spent WAY too much on sandwiches and that. YOU WILL BE HOME IN LESS THAN AN HOUR AND THERE IS FOOD THERE. LEAVE IT.
4. Writing will come back, of course, but it’s at a seriously low ebb right now which sucks. Between that and having not seen any of my friends for ten days it’s actually not a surprise I’m feeling somewhat low.
5. I really like my new students and I do think the job is a fit, despite the difficulties of working for a startup. I miss teaching kids and teenagers, honestly, but these guys are nice and everyone’s a Spanish native speaker which is useful and the classes have six or fewer people every night which on the whole is good. I get on with them all, and three of the four students having their free-trial lesson with me in my first week have paid and come back which is EXCELLENT. My colleagues are all nice as well, even though the other new teacher N is so intensely charismatic and cool-girl-at-school-esque that I find her somewhat intimidating. It’s not often I go quieter (and more boring when I actually speak) around someone - my usual mode when slightly anxious is peculiar babble. Hopefully we’ll do the getting-to-know-you drinks with the other two teachers thing soon and I can locate my own charm again :)
1. Finished first proper week of new job = TIRED, even though the job’s just part-time. I spent this weekend doing nothing except make icons and catch up on LJ and I’m still kind of tired today, even though today is work again. Must keep in mind that it generally takes two weeks to adjust to a new job and I won’t always be this OMG TIRED NO WORK, especially when I move out and the commute is no longer NINETY MINUTES EACH WAY, omfg. It’s such a mission and over a third of my pay goes on transport. Makes me way more tired than I would be otherwise, which led to…
2. Left my Kindle on the train last week. :*( SO SAD. I’ve replaced it with a new Kindle Fire, but it’s the new kind that I find I don’t like as much - there’s only one charger port and the case, in particular, is just much less easy to handle and pretty and DOESN’T LIE FLAT AGAINST THE SCREEN WHEN CLOSED, THUS WASTING BATTERY. Am looking into whether I can return the case and have ordered myself a fun galaxies-and-such one off Etsy. But the Kindle itself is pretty good and I have all my highlights & notes on my books back, and the fic I had uploaded there is still on my laptop hard drive and all going back on pretty soon. And it was pretty cheap, 20% off right now. Idk, my last Kindle was my going-away gift to Vietnam from basically all my friends so I had a lot of sentimental attachment to it. But at least I haven’t lost the books.
3. Because I teach from 6-9pm, and then I reach St Pancras with its open M&S at around ten, have spent WAY too much on sandwiches and that. YOU WILL BE HOME IN LESS THAN AN HOUR AND THERE IS FOOD THERE. LEAVE IT.
4. Writing will come back, of course, but it’s at a seriously low ebb right now which sucks. Between that and having not seen any of my friends for ten days it’s actually not a surprise I’m feeling somewhat low.
5. I really like my new students and I do think the job is a fit, despite the difficulties of working for a startup. I miss teaching kids and teenagers, honestly, but these guys are nice and everyone’s a Spanish native speaker which is useful and the classes have six or fewer people every night which on the whole is good. I get on with them all, and three of the four students having their free-trial lesson with me in my first week have paid and come back which is EXCELLENT. My colleagues are all nice as well, even though the other new teacher N is so intensely charismatic and cool-girl-at-school-esque that I find her somewhat intimidating. It’s not often I go quieter (and more boring when I actually speak) around someone - my usual mode when slightly anxious is peculiar babble. Hopefully we’ll do the getting-to-know-you drinks with the other two teachers thing soon and I can locate my own charm again :)
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Date: 2014-03-03 04:50 pm (UTC)Congrats on getting through the first week :D
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Date: 2014-03-09 08:00 pm (UTC)