Uninspiration

I don't know how it is that the most interesting courses can be so totally boring? I am taking a course on gender perspectives in education and I mean, COME ON! How can that even begin to make me bored? ME?! I live for that. Once again a manifestation of how inspired teachers are needed, teachers that can formulate appropriate tasks and guide the students in an appropriate way. Both lacking in this case. I pray I won't make my students as bored... Bored to the extent that I would almost rather fail than complete the tasks. That's some serious boredom.

The end of something

How is it that when we are coming to the end of the road of a given situation, that has been trying, but not all together bad, that we cease to see the good things and easily get caught up in negative emotions? I had, for example, been living in a place for a year or so and had quiet like it. But it wasn't perfect, so I started looking for some place new and when I had signed the lease for the new place I just couldn't get out of there fast enough. Everything, big or small, annoyed me. I think the same thing often happens in a relationship, the things that we would put up with before, are so difficult to tolerate at the end, when a final decision to cut the ties has been made. Maybe it has to do with the fear of something new. When we are breaking up with someone that we love we somehow have to motivate to ourselves that we are doing the right thing. So we give room to the negative things, possibly hurt the other partner even more, so that nothing new can be built out of the ashes and the moving forward is inevitable. To avoid destructive endings we therefore have to, by all means, try to avoid getting caught in the heat of the moment and see it for what it is. The end of one thing and the start of something else. 

Enough is enough!

Am getting so tired of whose story is being told everywhere, that is, that of the white man. Every time I read a new book or see a new film they haunt me. I feel that if they are still as dominant  as they are we have not taken affirmation action far enough. We should just say stop, we don't wanna hear anymore, we've heard the story and know the ending. You have to step down now and give space for someone else. To learn something new we need to see some new perspectives. If you also have this problem a tip is to only watch movies that have passed the Bechdel test (See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bechdel_test ) and thus avoid for example: Harry Potter and the deathly hallows: part two, The Lord of the rings, The social network, Avatar and Star Wars. One movie I intend to watch soon is Dear White People.

Lost things

I keep on loosing things and it is annoying me. Some are important to me for either sentimental or utilitarian purposes. Here is a list of a few things I've lost the last couple of months:

Earrings I've gotten as a gift from my baby (not the first pair ever lost though)
Underwear (HOW? But I'm sure I'm not the only one)
A lipstick (How am I supposed to put the finishing touches to my make-up?)
Keys (classic)
gloves (such is the winter in Sweden)
My mother's scarf (luckily found it by accidentally taking the same road twice)

And these are the things I've lost, let's not talk about the things I've broken.