Ever have one of those days where your arms and legs feel just ... heavy? Not like 'bingo wings' or 'thunder thighs' style heavy, but kind of like dead weights you can't be bothered to lift ( Read more... )

Thank you to everyone who replied to my post about the performance management meeting. As it was, the meeting was postponed thanks to FRIKKIN' OFSTED TURNING UP! To anyone who doesn't know, mentioning OfSted in education is like putting the cartoon mouse in the elephant enclosure, while also making sure at least one elephant is lame, sickly and in ( Read more... )

So, I'm bricking it. I have a meeting tomorrow with my headmistress and several members of the local education authority about my performance. Not a good meeting, either. Apparently having a bit of a weep the day you find out your mum's proposed heart operation might kill her, your dad has broken his hip and your grandmother is 'just waiting to die ( Read more... )

Note to self: falling asleep curled up next to the dog is a REALLY bad idea when you haven't yet written your lesson on John Keats for tomorrow morning. Argh!

I found a note in my bag, written last Friday, that said just 'Share today's cracker'. It took me a few seconds to remember what I'd meant, but basically I wanted to share some of the best things said to me by students this half-term, culminating in the one said in the very last lesson. These are GENUINE and funny as hell because of it.

"Miss, how ( Read more... )

Reasons I Haven't Been Online Much Lately:

OfSted (i.e. three days of HELL preceded by two days of TOTAL PANIC and followed by one day of WHY WON'T MY HANDS STOP SHAKING ( Read more... )

Bad Thoughts to Have While Trying to Look Like You're Paying Attention During the Morning Meeting:

- Isn't the Deputy Head a funny shape?

- Gawd, he should not take off his blazer if he's going to belt his trousers on his hips like that.

- His belly looks rather like melting tripe suspended in a blue carrier bag.

- And how low is the crotch in those ( Read more... )

Woo! I finally finished the D. Gray-Man anime! 103 episodes. I usually take months to finish a 26-episode series. Feck, I've been watching the 6-pisode series Gunbuster since 2006, and I still haven't finished it. But DGM? This series just kept. Me. Riveted. I have to admit I don't get all the Kanda love, since I found him boring, but Lavi has my ( Read more... )

There aren't many times in my life when I've been tempted to utter the words "Fuck this shit!" Not because I'm averse to cussing (I swear like a sailor in Real Life and have to be careful to modify my speech at work), but because I detest giving up. When I'm under threat I'm even worse. My natural impulse is to fight back and cling on like a ( Read more... )

Friggin' hell, karma decided to smile on me since that assault on Wednesday (two pupils thought it was hil-effing-arious to slam the handle of a door into my spine when I was standing in front of it, which, since I already have back problems thanks to my car accident, left me writhing about in a needs-oxygen-but-lungs-have-seized-up kind of way ( Read more... )