I swear, I am the world's worst worrywart.

I've been sitting here, playing around online (admittedly, while I should be cleaning), investigating where I might buy furniture when I move to England, and then I thought:

Holy crap. This stuff is actually nearly twice as expensive as it looks, if I'm bringing American money over. How am I going to ( Read more... )

I'm going to get a phone call tomorrow morning at stupid o'clock (6:15, when I'm on my way to work) from the teacher agency in England with which I've just signed up.

Phone call.

From employment agency in England.

Who, me? Excited? ;)

Apparently, the phrase 'lucked out' has an exactly OPPOSITE meaning in the UK as it does here! I found this on shocolate's LJ, and was completely floored ( Read more... )

So I went in to my classroom today to get some stuff done. I'm glad I did; I've got the room arranged differently again (tables pushed together to form "pods" of four; we'll see how long that lasts) and am starting to get a handle on my organisation. I went through the Skills Intervention Kit (read: worksheets for more basic skills kind of stuff) ( Read more... )

I took this picture in London and, well, it just BEGGED for this. Loudly. Really.
( LOL! )

I want to go back and see it again, dammit. Want want want want want want want.

Hell, I just want to be in England again.

*is depressed*

They're finally up, and most of them have descriptions. Over on my photobucket account:

Blackpool and Poulton-le-Fylde.

Caernarvon Castle.

Cardiff.

Chatsworth and the Peak District.

Kendal.

London.

Manchester.

Shrewsbury.

Stratford-upon-Avon.

York.

Yorkshire Dales and Bolton Abbey.

Enjoy, and let me know what you think! :D

Yes, dearest flist, I'm home. Well, I got home on Monday, actually, but it's taken me about this long to really get myself situated back into the flow of things. I've got most of my pics uploaded to Photobucket, and I'm working on my review of Hamlet (short version: OMG IT WAS FUCKING AWESOME ASFDJK;ASDFKJ;ADFJKDS; OMGOMGOMGOMGOMG!), but for the ( Read more... )

I'm here!

Yes, my dearest lj friends, I am finally IN STRATFORD. telltale and I are here in our room at the Grosvenor, ready to go out for a night on the town. And then tomorrow is The Day!

I can't believe this. I've been waiting for MONTHS for this, and it's here! Woot!

sensiblecat is on her way with her hubby and daughter, and she's bringing my big luggage with ( Read more... )

Ok, I'm going to try to make this relatively quick, as it's 11:30 pm and we're off to Stratford in the morning ( Read more... )