rope

tied

bow

bound

obey

command

Woo! Time to party drown under the perennial existential dread of multitudinous crushing tectonic pressures like [an exhausted teacher]!

instruct

makes some mental notes, waiting still

arms

educate

wide

spread

enlighten

disperse

awake

Exams this next week, but the worst of the pressing stuff is done. Just, you know, cleaning the room out and rounding up late work and trying not to panic about next year's budgetary situation.

Alive

fist in hair
attention is rapt

Snort