So one of the parents on Saturday offered me hardboiled eggs. I like eggs. I also like being able to eat, because as someone who's more-or-less self-employed that means I can do things like "not have mandatory lunch breaks in the name of efficiency" and y'know pay the consequences later ( Read more... )

Peter's back at 'work'. We live in a fortunate situation - extremely close to a main office - so they taxi Peter in to do some desk work a few days a week. His foot's healing up fine. He's progressed to hiking boots and can manage to walk without aid, but we went for a walk yesterday and he realized how much he needed to catch up ( Read more... )

Whenever I send my kid to their first examination, I check their clothes.

( I talk about clothes. )

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Nothing really special today...well, one! I recorded myself playing one of my student's songs (here) because she was having a lot of trouble playing it to my satisfaction. And then I got lazy and didn't bother to do the rest, because I didn't get a reply on whether they got it or not ( Read more... )

FIRST STUDENT SENT TO PIANO EXAMINATIONS

FIRST CLASS HONOURS WITH DISTINCTION

THAT'S 90+%

TOP 5% OF THE EXAMINATION CANDIDATES

YES THIS POST DESERVES CAPSLOCK

The other day I went into a bookstore and asked for help finding a book ( Read more... )

(And if you don't know WoW, don't bother reading it.)

"Oh, no, I'm just a huntard."
"No, you're not a huntard, you're a hunting...ress."
"The impressive thing is that she's probably doing that on 5FPS, too."

What was supposed to be a refreshing break on WoW ended up to be something much, much longer. I ended up wasting my entire evening playing when I should've been working ( Read more... )