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Boredom is so boring

Chairman of the Bored. It’s back to that time of year when we don’t have a lot to do. Yes, there are still classes, but most of the students have been away doing SATs, and some students have just been away. This year, I’ve had the same small group persistently turning up to class, which is especially disagreeable on long, drawn-out Friday afternoons, and babysitting them at any time just adds to the pervasive boredom. There are probably things I could be doing, although I think “redoing” them would be more accurate and I feel wholly disinclined to revise anything much at the moment without feeling that I’d be tinkering for the sake of tinkering. As a consequence of how dull yesterday was, I’m sure today seemed even duller. I believe I mentioned how boring things were at this time last year, but this year, the level of tedium seems to have risen. That may be a consequence of only having to deal with a single class who, as I noted above, have largely been absent because of SAT