Y'know those times when everything seems to be going wrong, when you're just impossibly clumsy? Or when, after a perfect time with your perfect person, you have to go fuck everything up? Yeah, that would be me right now. This morning, I managed to destroy - beyond any kind of hope of repair - the hanging basket that has been our pride and joy. ( Read more... )

School this week has been sort of busy, and sort of not. Lots of annoying little things to do that really have very little to do with teaching (such as making a display with perfect 1cm borders round everything), and some epic paperwork. Also, the kids thought today they would waste my time by taking 15 minutes to come back from the ICT suite, ( Read more... )

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A month between entries...gosh. I'm sure that must have happened before, tho I don't think I've ever been so aware of needing to post and just not quite getting to it, day after day. So, what's been going on ( Read more... )

Work continues to be utterly exhausting. Right now, I feel as though at every turn, I'm finding out about more stuff I have do, and it's like any minute someone else will tell me something else I should be doing. Added to that the ongoing discipline problems in my class, and the not sleeping (this morning: awake at 4.45, which is normal, but couldn ( Read more... )

The thing about living where I do is that about 25% of the time, planes on take-off from Heathrow fly right overhead. When they do, it is bloody noisy. The kind of you-can't-hear-your-music-and-have-to-pause-conversation noisy. I cannot imagine what the people who live right by Heathrow do. I would go quite mad ( Read more... )

1: My blu tak has vanished. I'm certain there is some in this room, somewhere, and I would quite like to use it. If I could only find it. If you were blu tak, where would you hide ( Read more... )

Well, busy day today ( Read more... )

So, the boy was here from Sunday to today, and much fun was had, including the watching, last night, of Pan's Labyrinth, which we both just loved. A lot of the reviews I've read this evening said it's basically a fairy tale like fairy tales should be, ie. dark and gruesome. It's certainly gruesome - there were a few occasions when I had to avert my ( Read more... )

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