hola

Worked a longer day today because I had an afternoon student, a Spanish university student who wants to get some English learning into his skull before he graduates and enters the scary world of work. We had a good discussion, talked for an hour and a half about all kinds of things, from career choices to Basque separatists. Not sure what I'll do with him when I have him again on Friday... boring grammar, maybe.

Also got an email from a Japanese girl who'd like to stay with us for 8 days in late April-early May. We'll see if that happens. Haven't been a host family before, but I thought I might give it a try.

Apart from that, not much to report. The weather is gloomy again. I got a theory today about why English people seem so angry and repressed sometimes. It always SEEMS like it's going to rain... sky is gray and black, wind kicks up sporadically, mist starts appearing in the air... but it never actually POURS. the most we get is a little sprinkle, really. So you get all the buildup and none of the release. Just tension, tension, tension all the time... something is always looming, but nothing ever actually happens. You never get the big thunderstorm, the payoff, the catastrophe and drama that clears the air. You just keep muddling through the grayness, day in and day out. I imagine that'd get to you after a few dozen years. So much for my anglophilosophising theory of the day.