Since when did summer start so bloody early? I can't believe it was so fucking hot last week.  On top of that, the air con in my classroom basically decided it was too hot to work.  According to the mechanic dude who looked at it on Thursday, that particular (old) type are not built to cope with days more than 30 degrees.  Ugh.  It was 32 degrees ( Read more... )

So many things to snark/update on and no energy to do it.

The holiday was great, although somehow we went through a bucketload of money. I'm trying not to worry about it, given the healthiness of income these days, but I'm finding it hard. Somehow, over the last couple of years I've ended up as tight as my beloved Pa, who in the never-forgotten ( Read more... )

I'm still alive.  School has started, and I feel woefully inept and undertrained, but I am getting through each day and having more good ones than bad ones.  I will see how I feel at the end of term. Got a couple of challenging (read: naughty) kids, and a couple with learning disabilities (dyslexia, serious language disorders etc etc)  which makes ( Read more... )

Anyone know where I can get some spiny leaf stick insects from in Melbourne, preferably outer eastern suburbs, for a non-ridiculous price ( Read more... )