Mastodawn

Life update: working in an elementary school is among the most meaningful jobs I've had.

It's also one of the most demanding and I'm just a substitute. There's a Swedish verb for a mass that has had soluble components removed through percolation: "urlakad". It's used metaphorically for humans, meaning "drained, exhausted" and that's exactly how I feel every evening.

Before this I knew teachers were under-appreciated even in Sweden. Now I know they're super-under-appreciated.

#DoesNotTranslate

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B Thoreau 🛸

@kazarnowicz The thing about teaching is that you are always "on." You have to stay hyper-engaged, super involved and 100% aware of the present when you teach all day. You manage constant questions, problem-solving social issues, diagnosing the cognitive development of 25 other brains in microslices of time, and make thousands of split second decisions in any given day. All performed pubically.

All that wears you out by the end of the day! So much!