I finally worked my brain today, some 3 weeks after I stopped thinking critically.

Not that I thought critically today but my brain was a lot more active than it has been in recent weeks.

I prepped for tomorrow's tuition session.... normally I wouldn't be caught dead doing it because to me, I'm not my cousin's tutor, I rather be thought of as a facilitator, but after the first session, I realise that to facilitate, your charge has to have some form of basic grounding and in certain topics, her school made no attempt to lay proper foundations, resulting in lecture theatres full of confused students. So I shall facilitate for certain topics and probably tutor for others. I'm a bad tutor I think, considering I'm a "rationaliser", meaning I tend to apply logic and rationalise things so as to understand them, something that might not work for many people who need examples and figures to help them along. Me? I somehow ignore the figures and examples 70% of the time in my lecture notes. I can only hope she takes something away from my sessions with her.

So I thought, you know what? To hell with the no homework thing I originally planned (doesn't mean I want to drown her in work alright?). I'm still NOT giving her homework, except that this time I'm giving her questions and assignments to complete on the spot. At least for the upcoming session. Anything that we can't finish would be left to her discretion. She can decide whether she wants to do it or not, because I've been through junior college and I know how they try to drown their students in homework and projects over the holidays.

So in prepping the assignments for tomorrow, I just worked my brain in certain economics concepts (not too much), but the one that took a lot of work? Chemistry. My arch-nemesis in junior college. Ironically, the worst grade I ever got in junior college was an O for biology (my pet subject).