Don’t waste a wish on wondering
Chances are as rare as the genies
Don’t rue the wasted time blundering
Made maudlin by monsters and meanies

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Today I’m feeling:

A little tired and slow. The first full week is catching up with me now. I still feel fairly positive, though, thanks to my happy, playful students this morning.

My body feels pretty good after getting it moving and hung. I was a bit stiff when I woke up but exercise seemed to have loosened things up.

Health:

Physical: 7
Mental: 7

Today I’m grateful for:

Tony at Suspect Device for arranging to get me sent a copy of Running At The Edge of Their World, the book about Suspect Device fanzine, which arrived today. Double amazing as I haven’t even paid for it yet!

The best thing about today was:

It’s consistency. No one thing in particular, but just a general great feeling throughout the day. Though I’m starting to feel that familiar Friday wind-down of exhaustion again.

What was out of your control today and how did you handle it?

I was happily sitting in the cafe when I got a message from my student, Palm asking me where I was.

As November is ‘sports day'(!), classes are cut from one hour to fifty minutes so that at the end of the day, students can practice their sports.

I made the incorrect assumption that it would start on Monday but instead discovered it started today!

I got to class and I only had an easy task for them anyway, which was on a preprinted worksheet, so no harm done.

Review your acts, Good and bad.

I nearly lost my temper with my student Pang today as she gave me a lot of attitude but luckily I was able to step back in time and sit down with her to try and find what the real problem was, because I was sure it wasn’t me.

I told her that I was on her side and if she would let me in, then I could try and help her. I have given her this message before but she didn’t really take to it. Maybe it will this time. Maybe it won’t.