Productivity

Or lack thereof.

I am a sloth.

So far today, I have:

1. Taught the bimbi. A class of prima elementare, for one hour. I spent most of my time shouting "sit down! listen! repeat!" and it was not particularly effective. As I emerged from the class with the beginnings of a headache and a handful of rushed, pencilled drawings, another teacher whose class I have taught in greeted me in the hall: "Why, hello! You teach in the prima?" Me: "Yes." (holding in an exhausted sigh with difficulty). Him: "My daughter's in that class!" Me: what I hope at least vaguely resembled a smile.

2. Bought some potatoes with the intention of cooking them with leeks and pancetta. I don't know why I happen to think this would be a good combination, but... whatever. Probably it's because there are leeks and pancetta in my fridge. Have not yet made a move to cook the potatoes.

3. Looked for a job for next year. My strategy so far has been to cleverly bypass the conventional route of job search websites, and instead go straight to the source of research jobs: faculty lab listings on university websites. However, this does not appear to be an efficient strategy. So far I have trawled through the various departmental webpages of one single university, and come up with rather slim pickings (one potential job, requiring qualifications that I don't really have). This took three hours. I am now reading phdcomics.com, which is a lot more entertaining, and makes me wonder whether grad school is really any less pressure-ful than med school. Hm. Overall opinion on job search: not so fun.

Now I am contemplating getting up and eating some taralli (because they are delicious and were on sale and I'm still too lazy to do the thing with the potatoes), but then, that would require me actually getting up. It's also getting kind of dark in here, so maybe that will swing it: I will get up and return with taralli, and more brightness in the room. Sighh.