It has, for whatever reason, been a draining week. I haven`t any bad days per se, but I`ve just been worn out. I think some of it may be due to the fact that my 4th graders, whom I love dearly, haven`t quite got me figured out yet and it takes a little extra activity on my part to get them to warm up.
As a consequence of this, last night was spent entirely inside of doors, parked under my kotatsu, reading a Bill Bryson book about travel in Europe. I also ate several persimons. It was one of those nights where I would have gone to the convenience store to buy a candy bar, except that this would have necessitated putting on pants (presumably, at any rate- the cultural expectations bar is pretty low, and while people would no doubt be disturbed by a pantsless candy bar purchaser, they would probably attribute it more to my foreigner status than to oscilations in my sanity).
It was just as well that I didn`t go out anyhow- halfway through the evening a storm blew in that sounded like the world was ending, and kept it up until I went to sleep. Come to that, it`s still keeping it up, and there are periodic flashes of lightning outside my middle school windows. The storm also seems to have brought winter with it- it is very cold today, and between gaps in the clouds I could see snow on some of the mountain tops.
Today and tomorrow are school-wide exam days for my middle school students, which means that there is absolutely nothing for me to do. I guess I`ll go study Japanese or something. Writing this blog was supposed to take up some time, but I`m finding myself finishing it with a discouragingly large chunk of morning still ahead of me- which I`m going to go try and fill now.
Mada tsugi bura-gu no jikan.
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