I am visibly weakening about my
determination to reject coats of any sort in my desperate attempt to “keep
summer going” in my one-man campaign to ignore autumn.
My cough is telling me that things are not
entirely well with this approach and the glum day rapidly degenerated into that
weather of which wind-borne drizzle is the major component.
Today was, of course the day when I traipse
from building 1 to building 4 and back again getting progressively wetter with
the insidious, targeted micro raindrops gently soaking me as I made my grumpy
way along to give one resentful lesson after another!
It is bad enough that it is a Monday
without that “soft” weather that the Irish speak of. Everybody was in a generally depressed mood
and into this atmosphere of negativity yet another meeting after school was
announced. IN a 40 hours week that we
are in the bloody place it says absolutely nothing for the consideration of the
management that they have to impose on our free time for a further hour. This will be shortly after our notorious
Saturday morning meeting - about which I cannot find words vitriolic enough to
express the correct level of condemnation for such an unnatural, pointless,
unprofessional and perverse activity.
On a more positive level talks are taking
place about when to hold our Chocolate Week.
The general consensus is that the suicide days of early February would
be the most appropriate time where the deep frivolity of our Chocolate Week
could be just the thing to keep us from succumbing to the depression that
distant June evokes in a typical teacher in the short dark days of the early
months of the year!
Amazon is hounding me with blandishments of
various sorts including art books which are difficult to resist. I think that I will attempt to get the school
to buy some of them because the computer in the room that I use to teach the
history of art constantly has difficulties linking to the Internet and is
therefore useless for my purposes.
And now to bed. An early night to escape the dampness in warm
oblivion!
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