Dave Perseveres, A Little (But With Profanity)

I thought I was having a bad day because one of my Creative Writing students alerted me that she could only see two of her assignments in our grading platform (Genesis) and the rest were invisible, and it turned out that some bizarre little toggle switch deep inside the assignment settings called "Show in Parents Module" was switched to NO, and so I had to manually reset all these little toggle switches during my lunch period (and then I found the culprit, a default in the global settings that had mysteriously switched halfway through the quarter—insane) but then I thought about the plight of Nuri and Afra in the novel I finished yesterday, The Beekeeper of Aleppo, and how these refugees from the Syrian civil war, who lost their child in a bombing, and traveled from camp to camp, carrying the burden of PTSD, grief, guilt, hallucinations, blindness, and regret—and somehow persevered, with very little to live for, and thinking about this novel made me feel a little less beleaguered, but just a little (and the incident was quite useful in Creative Writing class, where we were modernizing Aesop-type fables to reflect modern morals and lessons—it was the perfect example, and they actually witnessed me melt down about it, curse our grading platform, and then they saw me solve the mystery and carry on with my job).