2-27-09
I’m an insomniac. It’s a disease. A mental disease, but a disease all the same. I couldn’t tell you how many times I’ve gone a night without sleep. A good week for me is getting 42 hours of sleep. That’s a good week – an average of six hours per night. An average week? Thirty [...]
2-25-09
A dear friend of mine e-mailed me yesterday, and towards the end of her correspondence, she wrote the following, “I bet you are becoming a wonderful teacher. I can see you falling into it in a way that makes a classroom a great place for those kids to be.” This friend is a teacher herself, [...]
2-25-09
I have a tutoring gig on the side. It’s not exactly ideal. I teach a group of people from 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. on Tuesdays and Fridays. I’m not exactly happy about the Friday time slot, but whatever. I’m also neither pleased with the pay – 150 RMB per hour – nor the location: [...]
