Am I lucky ?

Supply teaching sums me up completely.  I can't live with teaching and I can't live without it. 

It's 09.10 and the 'phone didn't ring today.  Thank f**k !  But part of me remembers the buzz I got when I was in combat, glowing with a zeal that surprised even me.

The sun shines and a day of leisure beckons.  One I can fill with my wife who by the way comes from the same professional genre,

I wonder if top sportsmen and women feel the sam after retirement at the top.  A mixture of relief and yet an empty space that can't really be filled.  Somehow I have to fill my day.

The phrase 'I don't know how I ever had enough to go to work' is a tired one trotted out by retirees.  It's pure BULLSHIT because they are just lying to themselves.  They miss it alright and if they don't, they've wasted their f*****g time for the last however many years..

My mentor at college told me on the eve of my first teaching practice "If you don't get a buzz from being there, you are in the wrong place!"

I got the buzz and I always found the time to go to work.