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The happiness journal
Monday, April 7th, 2003 02:16 amThis semester I'm repeating my course "Happiness: philosophical and psychological perspectives" (I put in te stuff after the colon to discourage time-wasters). Once again we're writing online diaries recording times we feel happy, an idea I borrowed from Marion Milner (aka Joanna Field). It seems to be going well - 72 postings so far (though I suppose since I have 32 students, the average post-rate is only 3 - some people post a lot, and others don't post at all). Here's what I posted today:
I felt happy today on a few different occasions.
1. After not training for a long time, I got together with my sparring partner and worked out a program for the rest of the semester. We decided not to do much hapkido (since the hapkido guy isn't training this year because of PhD pressures) but concentrate on gumdo (Korean sword-fighting) since that is what she's good at (she'll probably get her black belt this summer). She also said she wanted to learn some t'ai chi off me, which is great, as it will motivate me to do more t'ai chi practice. We then did some t'ai chi, which was cool. I think some of the good feeling I got from this was due to nostalgia; I had a lot of good experiences teaching t'ai chi back in England (plus a few bad ones, like when I broke someone's knee) and I miss that atmosphere.
2. Angel!
3. I still haven't finished my massive pile of marking, but I've got through most of it (Şeytan'ın bacağını kırdım!). I've read the vocabulary tests, all the Political Literacy essays (some of which were very interesting) and most of the late 112 essays. I also took a sadistic pleasure in catching some students plagiarising and thinking how I am going to torture them. Heh heh heh.
I felt happy today on a few different occasions.
1. After not training for a long time, I got together with my sparring partner and worked out a program for the rest of the semester. We decided not to do much hapkido (since the hapkido guy isn't training this year because of PhD pressures) but concentrate on gumdo (Korean sword-fighting) since that is what she's good at (she'll probably get her black belt this summer). She also said she wanted to learn some t'ai chi off me, which is great, as it will motivate me to do more t'ai chi practice. We then did some t'ai chi, which was cool. I think some of the good feeling I got from this was due to nostalgia; I had a lot of good experiences teaching t'ai chi back in England (plus a few bad ones, like when I broke someone's knee) and I miss that atmosphere.
2. Angel!
3. I still haven't finished my massive pile of marking, but I've got through most of it (Şeytan'ın bacağını kırdım!). I've read the vocabulary tests, all the Political Literacy essays (some of which were very interesting) and most of the late 112 essays. I also took a sadistic pleasure in catching some students plagiarising and thinking how I am going to torture them. Heh heh heh.
