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Don't you just hate Mondays?
Jul. 19th, 2004 10:55 pmI have officially entered the I-don't-want-to-be-at-work-anymore phase of the summer holidays. My classes today were okay, but I'm just sick of the grind. Every day, it's the same low-grade stress and barely repressed chaos. At least I don't have the kids' classes which are almost entirely composed of Antichrist wannabes.
My lama treated me to lunch today. He spent the weekend buying about a thousand crabs and fish in Chinatown (and apparently several thousand clams) in order to release them into the ocean near Richmond. Apparently releasing live crabs is not that easy a procedure, and he managed to fall into the ocean at one point. But the animals have been spared their otherwise unpleasant fates (the boiling water thing is apparently very bad karma), and he and his students did puja in order to usher the shellfish further along the path to Enlightenment.
Today was "illness" conversation day in class (always an upper) which is how I learned that one of my high school students had almost died of a brain disease when she was young, and that the lama had almost died while on a hunger strike in India, after going without water and food for three days. Which makes my life seem pretty good by comparison right now.
My lama treated me to lunch today. He spent the weekend buying about a thousand crabs and fish in Chinatown (and apparently several thousand clams) in order to release them into the ocean near Richmond. Apparently releasing live crabs is not that easy a procedure, and he managed to fall into the ocean at one point. But the animals have been spared their otherwise unpleasant fates (the boiling water thing is apparently very bad karma), and he and his students did puja in order to usher the shellfish further along the path to Enlightenment.
Today was "illness" conversation day in class (always an upper) which is how I learned that one of my high school students had almost died of a brain disease when she was young, and that the lama had almost died while on a hunger strike in India, after going without water and food for three days. Which makes my life seem pretty good by comparison right now.
