What a terrible person I am

What I did today was perhaps the toughest thing I’ve done since I started teaching.
It’s not that I haven’t asked people to leave my class before; it’s not that I haven’t asked them not to come back for a while. It’s not even as if preparing for my classes has ever been a negotiable point.
It’s [...]

The Unexpected Long Weekend

Wasn’t really, though, coz I was at college. And when it takes an hour to get here and an hour to get back, that means I was at college!
Spent Friday woeking on a long overdue paper, put off finishing it till the Budget comes through. And Saturday was that lunch thingie… Sunday was one lazy [...]

Cancelling Classes

Classes were cancelled Friday and Saturday. If only they’d told us in advance! They did tell us about Friday, but I had so much scheduled for Saturday! Apparently they made the announcement late on Friday night, so there we were, marching off to the classrooms with registers in our hands, to find empty rooms!!
And we [...]

The Indian Team stole your dance

Sydus, did you see them? That victory jig - jump, jump, jump like a kangaroo? With their arms around each other? That’s you!! Your dance!
And coming, as it does, soon after the news that someone’d plagiarised the Awesome Foursome, makes me wonder how highway robbery like this can go unpunished in a supposedly civil society [...]

What treasures the blogosphere holds…

This one’s for you, Dad!

How I can empathise….

The Observer Woman Plucking hell
Must read!

He took his laptop into the loo…

I just saw a colleague come out of the loo with a huge laptop bag slung over his shoulder… now, if the guys’ loo is anything like the girls’ one, there’s no place to put a laptop. Except on the ground… and I hate to think what all is on the ground in that loo, [...]