"You always look so tired."

[eye_of_a_cat]

Apart from the fact that this doesn't ever sound like a compliment, it's just annoying. I thought I was organising my time and work quite well. Apparently, I am organising my time and work quite well - but the effect of this is that I'm existing at some low level of tiredness all the time, that other people can see this, and that I don't even notice. Can't I at least fool people? Bah.

In better news, a student who's usually the quietest and shyest person alive, and who's only just recently started speaking at all without looking absolutely terrified of it, turned up to class yesterday all happy and confident and enthusiastic about discussing things. And she brought grapes, too.

Comments

[deborah-judge.livejournal.com]

It's actually a compliment. 'You look so relaxed, I wonder when you have time to get all your work done,' now that would be an insult.

Since everyone knows that only people who work 80-hour weeks have hope of tenure, and therefore survival. Working yourself into exhaustion shows that you *might* be worthy of a job. It shows that you're serious, and that you care.

Damn, I hate this system.

[eye-of-a-cat.livejournal.com]

'You look so relaxed, I wonder when you have time to get all your work done,'

I got told "It's great that you can read books just for fun, I never seem to find the time!" yesterday. Obviously, people really dedicated to getting degrees in literature don't waste their time with reading it. *grumbles*

[elettaria.livejournal.com]

yes, JW was rubbing that one in yesterday. He keeps going on about how I put him to shame by happily wading through lots of novels. Yes, but half the time it's work avoidance. Anyway, on being pressed he admitted that he has books in several locations and there are thousands of them, whereas my collection is only about a thousand. No idea where I'm going to put them all in twenty years' time.

[kakodaimon.livejournal.com]

...wow.