Happiness Journal 11/8/25

Managed to hand over my condo unit successfully and get my deposit back. After hearing horror stories of how landlords gobbled up their tenants’ deposit, I count my lucky stars that mine was the honest and easygoing sort.

Met my landlord for the first time, and he showed me his papaya tree that he has been growing outside his window! Man, what a way to manipulate the environment to suit his fancy!

In other news, I wanted to be productive and mark my students’ essays. However, procrastination draped her mighty slumber cloak over my determination. Napped once in the morning and lay down on my bed for 30 minutes in the afternoon. I’m super productive - from another perspective!

Scrambled to mark 3 students’ compositions before I went to pick up my kids. These were the kids whom I had deemed to have potential to score AL1. So, if I just mark theirs and give them some targeted feedback tomorrow, I can remain one step ahead of the class and retain my moral authority.