Apparently, I only have the attention span to get half way through parenting books. I therefore introduce new techniques with great confidence and enthusiasm, only to descend into well meaning chaos ( Read more... )

I should be preparing for the lesson observation I have on Tuesday ( Read more... )

BF and I went to France during the half-term break, where we both picked up a wicked flu bug that I am only just starting to get over. It might have helped if I had admitted to still being sick and staying home from work a day or two to recover, but that would be far too sensible and rational, so I have continued to drag myself in ( Read more... )

Dear Saturday,

BBC Weather assures me that you are supposed to be sunny and lovely. My window tells me that you are, in fact, grey and kind of unpleasant looking.

Today is the day that I will not be trapped in a tiny room with even tinier lunatics. I had hoped instead to sit in the park with massive Peppermint Latte from Starbucks, my MP3 ( Read more... )

Thursday was not so very bad today. I am not sure how that happened. I don't think it was anything I did -- the kids just seemed rather subdued, like someone had perhaps killed their collective kittens ( Read more... )

Truck Tuesdays = 1
Me = 0

OMG.

I am going to curl up in bed for a while with H.P. Lovecraft and some mellow folk-rock music before taking another run at this teaching business. I just can't face the marking and planning I have to do tonight yet. Later, I'll do that. And go to the gym. And make dinner. And things.

So, I've started sorting and packing my belongings -- which mostly consist of books, and how very much the student cliche am I? -- for storage while I'm in England. My parents' garage has a big, empty space under the roof -- we're going to lay plywood down over the rafters, stack my boxes up, and tarp the whole pile to keep the lot dry ( Read more... )

I finished the tomorrow's homework in today's class. This leaves me with nothing to do tonight but lounge on the deck and basking in the sun, which activity I am currently enjoying utterly. The wireless, by fortuitous happenstance, broadcasts as far as the deck. Never mind that I can only pick up the signal half the time in my bedroom -- I would ( Read more... )

Oh, dear. Just when I thought I could relax, I made the extremely unpleasant discovery that the paper copy of the "Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon" that my thesis supervisor had in her files and gave me, and from which I've been working the entire time I was writing chapter three, was randomly abridged in numerous places. Without any indication ( Read more... )

I meant to get a little more work done tonight, but, instead, found myself doing the office cleaning, file organising, and general paper shuffling that I always end up doing when I finish one chapter and get ready to write the next. All my Stead eulogies are stacked on my desk next to my computer, my books on the sinking of the Titanic and the ( Read more... )