Strangeness

For the first time in years I am not invigilating the Bac' which began this morning with the 4 hour Philosophy test. They have one hour left*. I don't even know when the History-Geography test occurs...probably on Monday.

Of course I am not complaining about not marking the final exam this year, but I feel strangely out of the loop.

And I guess that getting back to teaching in September will be weird too.

Anyway, here are a few examples of subjects that the students had to ponder and discourse on this morning in Philosophy:

- Is it possible to be right against the facts?

- Is liberty threatened by equality?

- Does self-control depend on self-knowledge?

- Does feeling injustice teach me what is fair? (Not sure about my translation here as in French the word "juste" is polysemous)

- Is Art less necessary than science?

- Does culture unnature men?

- Are men doomed to be delusional about themselves?

*ETA: Apparently, this year the youngest candidate is 12 years and 5 months old! And the oldest is 71!

Pissed off

I'm pretty certain that the cat from above has been left alone for several days, probably at least 6 days now, as I haven't heard the owners since Friday, I think. At least I'm sure they were already gone on Saturday (and you can hear everything from my apartment!) .

Some of you may remember that time in December when they went out for a whole day and  locked her out by accident on their balcony in the cold, and she was crying out, and I managed to "save" her by using their neighbour's balcony, and took her with me during the afternoon.

She is a very quiet cat so it's difficult to be 100% sure that she is there but I think I hear some noise sometimes, and they have left her before when they went away on weekends so they must have done it again.

I remember in February when they asked me to check on her because they were going for a long weekend (4 days), she had dry food for a while (you know the kind of thing that deliver dry food) and two little bowls of water. Two months later they asked me again, but I was leaving for a symposium, and I know they left her for 5 days that time. This time they didn't even ask me anything.

And now it's alreay 6 fucking days!!!! She must have run out of water by now. And even though they've bought a water fountain or something like that, you don't leave a cat alone in a locked apartement that long. Anything can happen!

Who knows when they will come back? What if something happened to them and they can't come back? And there's nothing I can do.

The whole thing is making me sick. Also, I think I'm hormonal.