Instant noodle day: noun:
The type of day where you wake up exhausted and tempted to never leave your bed or pajamas, force yourself to go teach even though you are hollow on the inside, and return four hours later in the emotional state where the only thing that you have the energy to eat, or that even seems right to eat, is a bowl of instant noodles.That was today.
However, somehow, in the very midst of my instant noodle day, steak dinner and three scoop ice cream cone day started to nestle its way in.
Steak dinner and three scoop ice cream cone day: noun:
The type of day where you see a teacher in the office who you've made it your goal of the semester to get invited over to his home to eat dinner with him and his family (an ambitious goal seeing as how this teacher is "always busy" and painfully shy) and have the following conversation in your semi-exhausted, emotional fragile, instant noodle day mood:me: so what did you do this weekend?
him: nothing, I at home
me: oh did you cook noodles?
him: no I am very busy
me: I heard you make really good noodles
him: who tell you this?
me: this other teacher, you cook noodles for her but not for me...
him: I will check my time, maybe you can come to my home and I will make you noodles.
SUCCESS! How to reach a goal in two weeks? Let the Almighty take over...
The type of day where you force yourself out of the house after a lunch of instant noodles to just go and buy something for the sake of getting out of the house and in the midst of forcing yourself not to let your head hang so low as you walk you notice your student shuffling toward you who has a history of emotional instability in class, and she happens to be looking glum, so you take the time to sit with her on a nearby pipe and find out that her emotional instability is well founded, her situation is tragic and typical of all your students. In the course of a thirty minute conversation, that probably should have taken only ten but adding time for language barriers, you are able to assure her that she is valued and set up a time to get together to make dumplings. The Lover of our souls has a tendency to use dumplings to speak grace into people's lives...
The type of day where you are reminded that steak and three scoop ice cream cones have absolutely nothing on the wedding feast of the lamb...
The type of day where instant noodles aren't even considered real food.
That was today.
