Whose anxiety is this you've been trying on?

[sovay]

Today was almost ludicrously validating in several different arenas of my life, which is not at all what I expected when I got out of bed this morning. The short course is that my teaching skills have not deserted me, even after a decade rusting and in a field I had never actually taught before, and separately I am looking at a professional opportunity which I am not going to talk about until it has some substance because I don't want to sneeze on it and break it, but the prospect makes me extremely excited. Also people said really nice things about my singing and my writing and they were even different people. I am exhausted but elevated in mood. I am going to pitch over sideways on this couch and stare at a movie or read this book skygiants lent me and play Tacocat's "Grains of Salt" like ten more times.

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[sovay]

I love teaching more than almost anything else, and I'm, glad you got a chance to do so, and that it went well. And good luck with the other opportunity!

Thank you on both counts!

For about a five-year period, I taught and tutored regularly, and I did enjoy it. I just tend to assume that any skill I have not practiced within the last week has totally disintegrated and is not coming back, so it was really nice to have the reality check.