Damn, I be tired.

One night where I couldn't get to sleep until nearly 2 and had to wake up at 5:30

+ one period spent trying to get the reticent eighth graders to tell me about their Christmas holiday traditions

+ one period spent drinking coffee in the teachers' lounge and looking over some tests one of the teachers had asked me to correct

+ two periods spent sitting around while a teacher went through the eleventh chapter of Brave New World in excruciating detail

+ one period taken up by a student presentation, with two obviously dedicated but pronunciation-challenged students informing us about population explosion

+ one period spent going over an article about the "Buy Nothing Christmas" campaign with a group of very smart kids who nonetheless tend, when I pose a question for general discussion, to turn to the person next to them and comment on the question

+ one period spent waiting in the teacher's lounge and eating too many cookies from the various platters that people bring in

+ ten minutes spent waiting for someone, anyone, any living object to show up to my English discussion group before I finally gave up, got my coat and went to the S-Bahn

. . . equal one person sitting at a computer in Potsdamer Platz and counting the hours until she can get some shuteye, and thanking her lucky stars that the two classes she normally has tomorrow are preparing for a test and she has the day off. She might even manage to eke out a non-whiny post for a change :).