Ok, yes, it's nice to go to the office pre-Xmas celebrations, I guess the reason for that is unknown, but almost everybody does so in the Western world. I live somewhere in the West, therefore I have gone to a boring pre-Xmas dinner.
This week is also full of other stuff to do. Tomorrow I will more or less try to teach something about feminism in a bar at 10am. Besides of that I will have to hand back essays to my students (including their marks of course). I was tempted to go to the supermarket and get some chocolates and/cakes for my students, but I have decided not to. Could that be my only display of appreciation for their hard work during the term? Or should I be honest and tell them that they have been so bloody lazy that sometimes I've felt like leaving the classroom? Should I tell them that they did so bad in their essays that I was appalled? Should I confess to them that the marks I am giving them are actually false and that I was asked to increase them?
What else? Oh yes, nice minced meat pies and mulled wine this week too. I don't even remember when was the last time I had that stuff, but I guess I will indulge myself into them because there might not be anything else to do at that time of the day. That could be solved of course if I go to the library or to a computer lab, but then again, I will be able to do that during all the holidays if I please to do so.
That last part leads me to my whole point of this blog. What happens after all this meeting and 'partying'? Meeting friends and others, for days and days...for most of them to go away in the Xmas holidays. For a month there won't be anyone that can help to kill the time over a beer or two. There will not be any excuse not to work. There will be no excuse whatsoever to justify watching a really bad movie in the cinema. It will be just me for days and days of not talking to someone, not even having that sort of email conversations. Nothing, zero, nada, rien.
And yet, yet...there is that light in between the long tunnel. My family in law are coming over for Xmas, and I guess I should see that as a nice thing to wait for. Yes, I do like to wait for nicer things to come and I shall enjoy the days of silence...but I am not always so balanced neither positive. Coping sounds more like it.
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Xinola said: "Tomorrow I will more or less try to teach something about feminism in a bar at 10am."
- I tell you, if they had taught feminism in bars at 10am when I was still a student I might have learnt a thing or two, and started drinking much earlier than usually...
Mick, you did start drinking only an hour after that at 11am but, as you must be aware now, the licensing laws allow bars to serve alcohol earlier so it might be an idea to start considering enrolling again...
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