November: the penultimate month of the year. It sits as a sort of liminal space between the start of Spring (in Australia) and the end of the year festivities. For the teachers like myself, exams are mostly done (reports yet to be written). Lesson content easing off (time to find the educational games). We’re so …
I haven’t blogged for some time. The summary reason? Burnout. I was reading the other day about resilience fatigue; the concept that there’s only so many times that you can keep getting back up before you just have to stop, because you can’t do it anymore. It’s a pretty apt description of how many people …
I haven’t blogged for a few weeks now. In my previous post, I mentioned how tired I was and so I deliberately didn’t blog the following week because I, even I, couldn’t find the energy to type. No matter what, I can usually find the energy to type. So clearly, I was exhausted. However, then …
I wasn’t expecting to get covid in the lead up to Christmas, but I did. Outside carolling on Saturday afternoon I was shaking with cold, or so I thought. Nope, shaking with covid, rather. I guess that made me stop a little earlier than I was intending. Sure, I still had to send a flurry …