Groggy from a long chat that ended after 2:00 a.m. A chat that started with Big A awake and frustrated at being awake since he has to work till at least midnight today.
A rendition of "Big Dogs Don't Cry" didn't help, so I started talking about Virginia Woolf and Martha Nussbaum. (What? It puts students to sleep?)
Meanwhile:
Trying not to think of how it was the anniversary of him smashing his wrist while skiing.
Skirting the topic of why on earth does he have to start work at 7:00 a.m. doing stuff as part of an additional job he interviewed for in Feb and isn't being compensated for in any way.
Finding out that fake yawns can't make your companions sleepy.
Thinking about Nu saying "people look at me weird"--which is worrying whether it's real or imagined.
Finding out we were talking too loudly for Scout who sighed at us loudly and went to At's room for the rest of the night.
Then I woke up a little later because At was riffling through all his things because he couldn't remember where he put his inhaler and he had been reading about the 12-year-old in Canada who died at school without his inhaler before bed.
And students in and out all day, jittery with finals panic and juggling everything from cancer to toddlers.
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A rendition of "Big Dogs Don't Cry" didn't help, so I started talking about Virginia Woolf and Martha Nussbaum. (What? It puts students to sleep?)
Meanwhile:
Trying not to think of how it was the anniversary of him smashing his wrist while skiing.
Skirting the topic of why on earth does he have to start work at 7:00 a.m. doing stuff as part of an additional job he interviewed for in Feb and isn't being compensated for in any way.
Finding out that fake yawns can't make your companions sleepy.
Thinking about Nu saying "people look at me weird"--which is worrying whether it's real or imagined.
Finding out we were talking too loudly for Scout who sighed at us loudly and went to At's room for the rest of the night.
Then I woke up a little later because At was riffling through all his things because he couldn't remember where he put his inhaler and he had been reading about the 12-year-old in Canada who died at school without his inhaler before bed.
And students in and out all day, jittery with finals panic and juggling everything from cancer to toddlers.
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