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I’m back from the teaching conference for engineers. No more pretending: now I am teaching for real.
I wish I could say it was going well, but it feels like everything else right now. You know, time and space collapsing into a tar-like substance that is virtually impossible to remove from cotton. Words come out of my mouth but I barely hear them. I certainly don’t control them. I am numb to everything going on around me.
I feel like I am losing my sensory perception. I can’t hear people on the phone, I misread words in magazines that I never needed glasses to read before, and my memory feels like the old butter knife you never use because it’s too dull, even for a butter knife.
Somehow, my students put up with it all. Some of them could even be described as bright eyed and eager and, in this way, they amaze me. I’m hoping their patience will outlast my derusting.
September 30th, 2007 at 8:29 pm
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