But don’t let the taxonomical tail wag the preparation dog*
While many of you are enjoying (most of) the week off from school or work or whatever it is that you do, I’m working overtime. Such is the life of a tutor. All of my students, now that they’re out of school, want to schedule extra lessons this week.
I ruled out lessons on Thanksgiving Day (not that anyone actually asked to schedule then), but I’ve got three lessons on Wednesday and one on Friday. When I flip my planner to the page for this week, it throws back a screen of blue (the color I use for private tutoring) with one tiny white spot on Thursday and a tiny green spot today, when I taught my LSAT class.
Yup, poor poor me. Everybody cry for Natalie. My brother’s home from school, and my cousin’s come to visit, and I don’t get to hang out and play games with them until Thanksgiving morning. Boo hoo. On a positive note, eight lessons in five days adds up to around $300 (including mileage), which would be handy to have around, what with Christmas coming and all.
It doesn’t feel much like the holidays, but I’m sure those mashed potatoes will taste just as yummy as ever. At least I can say with some bit of confidence than I’m a good sight better off now than I was at this time last year, or the year before that, during both of which I spent Thanksgiving at school and sat around thinking about how much fun it was to be failing everything (last year) or nearly failing everything (the year before).
In summary, meh. Could be worse.
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* There are probably no more than twenty or thirty people in the world who know off the tops of their heads where this comes from. But (1) it makes me giggle inside and (2) all the ‘real’ titles I thought of sounded dumb.
November 22nd, 2005 at 7:15 am
you should post this like 3 times so that we really feel your pain
November 22nd, 2005 at 11:40 pm
Oops, my bad. WordPress was being crazy last night, and I guess it posted every time I saved it. If you were paying attention, you got to see that I first posted it in Miscellany, and also that the original title reversed ‘dog’ and ‘tail.’ How embarrassing.
November 22nd, 2005 at 11:48 pm
Also! Why are you clytemnestra and not sparagmos? Until I looked up your email address a minute ago, I’d been wondering (1) how some random person thought they could get away with sassing me repeatedly on my own blog and (2) why you didn’t love me enough to ever comment. Very much with the sneakiness.