Quote from: Ronnie Omelettes on April 25, 2019, 02:10:29 pmyou can one of two things, first, maybe your neighbour thinks he's a cat marking his territory, so all you need to do it piss all over the place too, marking it out as your territory.or second, buy a tiger, and housetrain it to just hang around your block. can't be too hard. You think maybe I should just start pissing on his door? Squirt a few drops onto his keypad, too, for good measure? Either he'll finally get the message and stop urinating in the stairwell, or he'll declare war and start pissing on EVERYONE'S doors. But then I'd feel bad if it weren't really him.
you can one of two things, first, maybe your neighbour thinks he's a cat marking his territory, so all you need to do it piss all over the place too, marking it out as your territory.or second, buy a tiger, and housetrain it to just hang around your block. can't be too hard.
I'm feeling really unmotivated. I know I shouldn't feel like this but I can't help it ...For the past five years I've taught early morning English classes every day (in the classroom before 8am) for a special program where the students get the chance to live and work in Australia. At the beginning there was some coteaching but over the years that slowly stopped to the point where I am now. I do all the planning, teaching, preparing them for their interview, even summer and winter camps are usually taught solely by me. My coteachers handle the paperwork.If the students pass (100% success rate so far since I've been here) my coteacher also gets the chance to go to Australia for three months to help with the program. So far three have gone to Australia.I can't help feeling a little bit bitter about seeing them travel to Australia kind of off the back of my work. I know I shouldn't feel like this but I can't help it and it's getting me down lol
Who the #%$^ needs to have their alarm go off for a full hour in the morning and have vibrations on?!?!?!?! I can't hear a damn thing but my last hour of supposed sleep time was just laying there listening to the buzzing. Every while it would go off them back on again..... I just got over the flu (off Monday and Tuesday) and this was the last thing I needed. Must have got a new neighbour because this never happened the last yr and 3 months. But it has happened on a few occasions in the past few weeks.
Latest K-MIL rant. She always annoys me on the discussion about food. Yesterday, I didn't want to eat the baby octopus in a restaurant and suddenly "He doesn't like seafood" she says to everyone at the table. I do love eating fish (Cod, Mackerel, Salmon) and can eat crab and lobster (though not part of my diet).
I just don't get the incessant need to be friends with the foreign teacher. If it looks like I'm busy, sleeping or just doing literally anything else, why force a conversation? Why do you need to know everything? Does it even look/sound like I want to be a part of the conversation when we start talking???Especially today with a substitute who's only going to be here for like two days.I get it. Culture of having to know all the details, but some days I would just like to have my conversations limited only to my students and CT in class time. Too tired for this *sigh*
Quote from: Savant on May 02, 2019, 12:59:21 pmLatest K-MIL rant. She always annoys me on the discussion about food. Yesterday, I didn't want to eat the baby octopus in a restaurant and suddenly "He doesn't like seafood" she says to everyone at the table. I do love eating fish (Cod, Mackerel, Salmon) and can eat crab and lobster (though not part of my diet). Did you bother correcting the table and explaining that you do like most fish-type seafood, but just don't like octopus? Or did you just feel annoyed about it and keep it to yourself?
I get ignored, but not left out. Two of my coTs are very good about sitting with me so that I'm not sitting in total silence during dinners, though. @Savant: Do you think your MIL is that dense (I say this because it's pretty dense to assume someone hates all seafood just because they state they don't like one thing) and forgetful, or do you think it's a case of passive-aggressive needling to try to get you to not be "picky" about your food? Or is it possible that she was just using it as an excuse for the rest of the table so that they don't bother you with your own food choices?
She's just one of those Koreans who assumes every Korean dish is delicious and for someone to not want to eat one such dish means that you don't like all Korean food. So yeah, maybe, dense.
I hear stories like this and am glad that my partner's parents aren't difficult.