It is all very well to say there is a line and it is a finish line and you're finished. But what if it is not the 'finish' but the 'start'? That is kind of the life of an educator. Teaching 'finished' last week, that is the fronting up to classes. We now have a week before the students start exams but over the next three days we have to prepare for and host hundreds of high school students for a 'university experience' (please note the deliberate use of the inverted commas; purposeful/meaningless).
Meanwhile, next semester's courses need to be reviewed, revised and prepared. Oh, have I mentioned the marking forthcoming? There's that. I also have an already lengthy list of promised essays, articles and online pieces I am to finish writing. And then it is back to doing just the regular work of what is the 'academic break'...
But this has turned into an accidental comment rather than wondering why the birds today took off at the same time from their respective patches on the lake shores and swam like a croc was chasing them, whereupon, the reflection of the pole on the water's surface made the perfect start/finish line...well, that effect anyway.
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| On my mark... |
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| Heh, beat you... |
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| Finished? Starting? |
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| Who is in focus though? |
I couldn't tell for a moment whether I was, or they were, coming or going, starting or finishing...
Might need to reflect on that for a moment...
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| Much reflection on the lake, thankfully |
Then I went to tai chi, before it all starts again tomorrow.
[Camera : Canon EOS 60D, 75-300mm, 5.06pm-5.08pm]
