Well, I’m back. I don’t have much to report, except that I’m a little upset. I have been assigned a measly 10 hours/week teaching. Not only will this not pay much, but I have nothing to do. I’ve said it before, but I need to be busy to be happy. I ain’t been busy yet. I came from a job where I was regularly teaching 25 hours a week, and working from 8 to 6 most days teaching and doing other teaching tasks. Not to mention running a basketball team and a newspaper.
Here, not so much. I sleep in, I cook a lot, I shop everyday for food, I stay up late and I play poker. Sure, in some ways it’s every working man’s dream. (Not to mention that the grass is always greener.) For the most part, though, I feel like this isn’t what I signed up for.
That’s certainly not any of my readers’ problem, but it doesn’t give me much to write about.
One thing I would like to mention though is the wind-tunnel our apartment has become. It’s been windy here, and the doors on our apartment don’t shut. My roommate had his room window open, and the ensuing breeze was blowing the balcony doors open enough to blow the chair holding them closed over. Door routinely slam around here. (Another problem is the opening to the roof upstairs has no door at all.) There’s the roaring of the wind outside, constant door rattling that comes with inside breezes and the occasional slamming of the door or window somewhere, either in this apartment or another. It’s enough to drive someone who isn’t working much crazy.
So, for all you people working full time out there and living in homes whose doors shut, be thankful.
December 2, 2010 at 7:04 am |
Does this wind phenomenon happen often? I’ve heard of the scirocco, as it’s called in some parts. Is this it or it by another name, or is it just a freakily strong wind?