I’m back, I’m rested, and I’m slightly tanned. I spent spring break in Thailand. It was messy, sandy, beachy, lovely, delicious, and above all stinking HOT. It was a nice break, and mostly blurs into a haze of beach and Bangkok traffic.
The first day to Bangkok, arrived at midnight and waited in the airport […]
April 12th, 2006
Categories: career, travel, happenings . Author: ximena . Comments: No Comments
Or alternatively, “empty chairs at empty tables.” Where did the entire staffroom disappear to? Do I hear an assembly in the gym? Well, it’s a good thing I no longer give a shit about whether they include me in stuff here at school…
Briefly considered going home there, upon being ditched yet again at my […]
September 29th, 2005
Categories: school, career, japan . Author: ximena . Comments: 1 Comment
It is almost September. Next month was the deadline I set for myself, for having some viable options thought up for next year. The need for this becomes especially apparent as I sit here warming my desk chair due to cancelled classes, and face the reality of my questionable usefulness as an assistant ESL teacher.
But […]
August 25th, 2005
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A chart comparing the social status of your job, level of education, income and total wealth tells you roughly what class you fit into by percentile of the American population; bottom fifth, lower middle, middle, upper middle, top fifth.
I put in my info and came out more or less in the middle of the middle. […]
May 16th, 2005
Categories: politics, career . Author: ximena . Comments: No Comments