Two sleepless nights with a screaming baby and I was a wreck at work today. Crawled into my office, slumped in a chair, wheezing (I’m coming off a cold), and stared at the computer screen for 5 minutes, feeling too weak to press the power button.
Got up, knocking off a pile of papers, and started shuffling laboriously towards the classroom. Saw a colleague but couldn’t greet him because of feeling too exhausted to make any sounds.
Dragged myself across the threshold into the classroom. . .
. . . and it was like somebody had changed the battery. For the next 1,5 hours, I was running around the classroom, explaining, answering questions, cracking jokes, lighting up the room, and feeling as energetic as ever.
Once the class was over, I was back to being a wreck. For those who know me in person: I didn’t even have any lunch. Have you ever known me to miss a meal? For anything? I did today.
Teachers are weird. We’ll rise from our deathbeds if there’s half a chance to explain the Spanish Civil War or the imperfect subjunctive one last time.
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I have heard people say that they come into work with a really bad cold, all stuffed up and snotty, but once they get to class and the adrenaline kicks in, even the nose stops running!
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One time, I have teached with a flu. That week, I spent only 5 hours at my university, including those 3 hours in class.
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A number of years ago the place I worked had built extra rooms by modifying a large passage between two buildings.
Once in January or February when the temperature was somewhere around 10-15 below zero (celsius) I had weekend classes in one of those rooms and in the middle of explaining something I realized all the students are freezing (bundled up in coats and huddled together).
It turns out that the heating was completely insufficient in the best of times and all but non-existent on weekends. I’m not a person that enjoys or doesn’t notice the cold but while I was teaching I didn’t notice at all…. (though I was shivering through the breaks)
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I did something and a comment is in moderation….
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It sometimes happens for no reason at all.
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I totally related to this. Teaching does that to me, too.
Hope Clara and you are feeling peppier soon!
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