Blog posting?

Who has time for that?

I've been working a lot lately. Honestly looking forward to forced vacation over the holidays (which I thought I would dread). That would be when all my students take their vacations, thus forcing me to do the same, as I will have no one in Paris to teach English to. The week of Dec. 21 should be relatively quiet. But it's crazy busy until then.

Ultimately, I'm happier working more hours but with interested, motivated adult students in Paris then fewer hours with bratty, unmotivated ones in the suburbs. But it's tiring, allright. I often need a lot of quiet time in the evening since it's draining being dynamic for a living. Especially if you do it for 32 hours a week, like I will next week. Yikes. I recently moved to a new apartment which I love and this has been a great place to come home to and cocoon after a long day of being winsome, patient, interesting, engaged and capable of explaining English verb tenses.

Today I had some cancellations (free time during the week for the first time in ages) and how did I spend it? Doing errands and French administrative tasks, of course. Things like updating my carte vitale, laundry, updating my address at the bank, scheduling future classes with my students. I guess stuff that regular people do on weekends. I, however, work on Saturdays. While Sunday is my day of rest, nothing is open then and I am therefore always one step behind the French administration. Not that they really advance that much, though, so it's usually easy to catch up.