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Thanks :) I didn't mean to imply that the _job_ was monotonous, because it isn't at all - that's one of the things that attracted me to it in the first place. And yes, hearing back from past students is ABSOLUTELY the best - someone telling me that he visited Keats' grave in Rome and thought of me, or that he or she was inspired to go into further studies in English, or even just, as one 1st year student said "I used to hate English - maybe it's not so bad..." I like working with new teachers, too, because I know how important mentors were to me in my own career.