I went to the classroom to teach first period yesterday. A sign on the classroom door read that I (and anyone else teaching in that room) have been reassigned to another due to a faculty and staff table tennis tournament. The tournament is now in its second full day.
Daylight fades, rune-like,
stroking the sky’s last morphemes:
merging our Edens.
This weekend I caught up with an old colleague who still pounds the pavement in the Big Durian. He’s a bit older than me with a great story to tell about his worldly travels, his ups and downs. The point is this: while talking to him, I realized that looking for a job [...]
I don’t know what it is exactly, but getting a good night’s sleep here is not possible. And it’s been that way for the past three and a half years. I can’t say why though. Even if I’m sleeping in a posh hotel, I can’t seem to sleep like a log. [...]
A few minutes past midnight another shake woke me up. Then the power went out. Then I began to sweat and the mosquitoes started to buzz. All this after I went to bed early to catch up on some sleep.