elections

So here’s the deal, politically speaking. On the one hand we have a familiar character, albeit a controversial one; one who likes to hearken back to the 90’s and is urging the country to get back on its feet. On the other hand we have a dark horse contender, a relatively young newcomer [...]

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the shadow knows…

The title has absolutely nothing to do with anything I’m about to write about, but Julia’s listening to a 1938 recording of “The Shadow,” so it seemed like as good a beginning as any.
My newest student, Franca, lands in the older percentile of my students, but makes up for it in enthusiasm and energy and [...]

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in which I am largely incompetent

Yesterday I thought I was going blind in one eye because everything was blurry in my left eye and I was having a really hard time reading anything up close, particularly on my computer screen, both because it was fuzzy and because I couldn’t make my eyes focus together properly.
But actually the whole time it [...]

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cookies + cannibalism?

Julia and I went to get haircuts yesterday. We’re both quite happy: we both managed to communicate what we wanted, the hairstylist was nice and friendly, and there was a very excited puppy who came in with another customer and tried to a) sit on Julia’s lap while she was getting shampooed and b) [...]

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argh!

Today my boss requested that I take on another private student who wanted to do one hour twice a week–one of those days being Tuesday. I’m pleased to say that I did put my foot down and say no, I can’t do 9 hours of teaching on Tuesdays, especially not when that extra hour [...]

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festeggiando

Yesterday I had to teach for 8 hours–from 9:00-1:15, and then from 6:30-10:30. Four of those hours consisted of two one-on-one students. Just going to throw this out there–doing a private language lesson for two full hours only once a week is a bit silly. Two hours is a LONG time for [...]

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