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Sisyphus pukes over the side of an anthill and is still as meaningless as ever

December 9, 2018
by Ms. Teo
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There is something really liberating about puking out the side of your friend’s car while they stop to get you some water at a gas station in Ladner while your prof sits in the backseat telling your friend how great of a teacher you’ll be. I wish I was making this shit up. I regularly think about my insignificance in the world. You’d think that the fact that everybody is collectively insignificant together would make […]

Resilience: a euphemism

September 21, 2018
by Ms. Teo
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Today we talked about resilience. Dictionary dot com defines resilience as “the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties”. This was a good thing to most of the people in the room. And for the most part, I think it’s a good thing too. But a growing feeling that I’ve spent most of the day wrestling is how incredibly unnerving the idea of “resilience” is to me. We’re referring to “risk” in conjunction with resilience and through […]