22 Şubat 2020, Cumartesi
saat: 22:03
Who’d have guessed that choices have consequences?
“Children, you are the future,' he said, and today I realize he did not mean it the way it sounded. The reason children are the future is not that they will one day be grownups. No, the reason is that mankind is moving more and more in the direction of infancy, and childhood is the image of the future.”
Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
saat: 20:16
You know, in some countries your taxes are just filed like it all happens without you having to lift a finger but in the US we have to spend an hour transcribing numbers into boxes while resisting the urge to launch ourselves into the sky because it’s a terrible way to spend any amount of time, let alone your one and only precious Sunday during which you finally feel more human.
The week was a terribly drawn-out thing of grading, meetings, work, people, responsibilities, endless e-mails, and little sleep. I am annoyed about all of it because I am tired and I have things to do that I need to be doing and would rather be doing than tending to my own lame frustrations.
"I hope you aren't being too hard on yourself. I'm disappointed that the student did not start with you but instead came right to an administrator in the way that he did. That bothers and worries me.
Regardless of my frustration with the student's approach, I appreciate the thoughtful way in which you have responded."
This is a pointless post but sometimes every person -including myself- needs to complain when there’s little else to do so just to reiterate.
