Armour @ MindSay

So, I haven't blogged about my work for a time.  Today's the day!  As most of you know, I am now teaching 2 yr olds ... a far cry from the orations of MacBeth or the study character in Hemingway or Faulkner.  2 yr olds don't much care about things like that.  In fact, 2 yr olds are very naturally egocentric.  (That means they don't care or even think about anything but themselves.)  Most of the time, it is a delightful challenge to attempt to engage their attention and impart some great morsel of knowledge or wisdom. 

Then ... there are days like today.  A chink in my armour was detected early on but none other than my great nemesis, NF.  NF is a formidable opponent ... strong, smart, and usually overly eager to please.  The challenge with NF is that he refuses to "engage."  I caught him one day ... at one time for maybe 5 minutes ... engaged with a "babydoll," but that is history now.  He doesn't play  with other children.  He doesn't play with toys.  He simply thrives in my shadow on most days.  Today, however, he detected the chink ... I was tired. 

"Ah hah," he thought.  "I can drive her mad today ...Yes!  That is what I will do!  Push her to the edge!"  And so he did.  How, you may wonder?  The never ending whine.  "mommy toming?  Mommy toming???"  from 8:35 until 3:45  .... 

I've been undone ... now, to recoup!  :)

~ B

...last night. it was not exactly a pretty dream. I lost alida to a bigger, better and cooler guy. was pretty bad. of course I KNOW it all is the feedbacks from the recent events regarding my friends and such, but still, was not a pretty thing, especially since i know that it can happen oh so easily. I mean just look at the past saturday and wednesday, it was like one moment im in, the next moment it seems that not only did i lose the race, i was never even IN the race to begin with.

It sucks to think that this could happen to someone, but i suppose that such will be life hey, we cannot all be winners.

I had a wonderfull dream in the beginning of the evening! I dreamt that i got a job for the national geographical society in norway, and found this wonderfull apartment which i rebuilt on my own. it was really amazing, and there was this pub, the perfect dark, grungy pub where big silent men came to drink away their miseries! wow was awesome. There was also this BIG wall covering structure i built, the shape of africa from metal with individual pieces for every countries, and all my new friends would write their names on a block if they have ever been to that country.

In reality it would be really a logistical nightmare... i mean kidnapping people to south africa is relatively easy. but to norway is a more dificult task....

anyways, today is friday. tommorow the thing arrives. tommorow is going to be interesting, and i dare the third day i will regret. if it rains tommorow night then i will KNOW that im going to regret it badly. saturday it rained, wednesday it rained....you see the picture.

will post again later!