school/work

i hadn't even had time to breathe since returning to a flurry of back-to-back things. school started and uni is once more a sea of faces and books and hurry. i presented my paper at the departmental seminar and that went ok, i got resounding compliments but i think it's still theoretically sloppy. i've to spend the next 2 weeks writing the proper draft for the conference. the institute that i'd been working at asked me to consider a more permanent position, which is quite impossible given the amount of work and travelling i'm undertaking. and i had my three tutorial classes today, one after another. it's a sorta deja vu standing in front of a bunch of 19 year old kids and writing things on the whiteboard expounding the glories of studying global politics. i suspect it would be a matter of time i start quoting winterson and shoving her novels down their throats. once again, class dynamics (or is it the time, the feng shui?) seemed to play a huge part; the first tutorial was great and i talked so much i ran over time; the second one was a lil ugh ... (why're they giving me cynical, mocking looks, as if i'm spouting nonsense?); and the third was simply fantastic, so very fantastic i thought i wanted to see them everyday. haha. thankfully it's the weekend, and i'll get some breather, and return to the happy grind again.