{"id":143,"date":"2013-08-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yule-tide.generalsemiotics.net\/index.php\/2013\/08\/25\/post-136-low-point-high-point\/"},"modified":"2013-08-25T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-25T00:00:00","slug":"post-136-low-point-high-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/2013\/08\/25\/post-136-low-point-high-point\/","title":{"rendered":"Post-136: Low Point, High Point"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"paragraph\" style=\"text-align:left;\">Something happened at 10:05 PM on Thursday that marks what must be the <em>lowest <\/em>point of my working life during the past two years. Then, as if life were a movie drama, just seven hours later on Friday early morning, something amazing began to happen, totally unconnected to the previous night&#8217;s disgrace except that both relate to my job. The Friday thing probably ranks as one of the <em>highest <\/em>points of my three working years in Korea.<\/p>\n<p><span>I don&#8217;t really know if I should write about either one. If I wrote about the former, I&#8217;d not be able to avoid negativity and bitterness. It would turn into an &#8220;anti-Av****&#8221; diatribe. And who likes diatribes? If I wrote about the former, it may look like shameless boasting or self-promotion.<\/span><br \/>********************<br \/>The implications of the &#8220;low point&#8221; thing frighten and depress me (I&#8217;m led to believe that management [such that it is] may be about to thrust the proverbial knife in my back, as my foot is out the door).<span> <\/span><br \/>********************<br \/><span><\/span>I drank an unhealthy amount of coffee during my two nights of two to three hours&#8217; sleep (see <a style=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/yuletide5142.weebly.com\/1\/post\/2013\/08\/post-131-oppressive-heat-oppressive-end-of-semester-work.html\">post-131<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/yuletide5142.weebly.com\/1\/post\/2013\/08\/post-132-no-time-for-content.html\">post-132<\/a>). So many essays submitted late. I did them all. This weekend, I completed thirteen final &#8220;straggler&#8221; essays which students submitted on Friday, the last day. I won&#8217;t be correcting another single essay the rest of 2013.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something happened at 10:05 PM on Thursday that marks what must be the lowest point of my working life during the past two years. Then, as if life were a movie drama, just seven hours later on Friday early morning, something amazing began to happen, totally unconnected to the previous night&#8217;s disgrace except that both [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}