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Stupid emotional rollercoaster.
Having worked myself up a lot about the job in Nanjing, I'm now working myself down again and preparing to be rejected. I know getting myself hyped up is a bad idea, but that is exactly what I've done. It's now been 2 weeks since my interview and 2 business days since they checked my references. They want to complete the process by Friday week, so ( Read more... ) -
People confuse me.
I don't expect my students to be particularly self-aware. I don't expect my yr7 kids to be able to figure out on their own why they reacted to a situation in a particular way or the roots of their issues and all that sort of stuff. I expect to spend a lot of my time on behaviour management and trying to get them to think about their behaviour, ( Read more... ) -
Ergh.
I need to harden the f up. I really do. I'm feeling so lazy. I don't want to do anything around the house, and all the places I want to go to are at least an hour away by public transport. I don't want to ride my bike because of how stupidly humid it is, and it would take even longer to get to where I want to go anyway. The end result now being ( Read more... ) -
Killing parts of the garden so that others may live
Weed 'n' feed. That stuff had better work, given how much I've probably inhaled over the past few days. This morning I used a few kilos on the patch of green right near our front door. It's mostly weeds, and I want them all to DIE. Then I want to oversow with some grass seeds ( Read more... ) -
CAMERA!!!
The replacement for my camera has arrived! Woo! I can now take higher-quality photos :-) I'm so looking forward to getting to know it. The settings are different to the previous model, but it has a bigger optical zoom. I haven't properly tested how good it is at close-up photography, but that will come. -
Too much to do today.
Today I plan to:
- Go to the RSPCA to pick up a thingie for my kitten's collar with her name and my phone number on it.
- Go to Monash to argue my case for being allowed the maths pre-requisites I need to be able to do my next physics unit
- Go somewhere with a Myer so that I can buy a better pillow
- Go into town to catch up with a friend who's down ( Read more... ) -
Recipe in reserve
I cooked something new tonight: Creamy mushroom soup. It's not in line with this month's theme of almonds, but I'll need a reserve recipe eventually (times do get busy, after all), so I'll keep this as a spare just in case I don't have time one week :-)
I'm also particularly proud of this one because there is only one ingredient in there that I didn ( Read more... ) -
Cake!
My birthday is tomorrow, but we're having dinner with my husband's family tonight. So I baked a cake! It is almond cake, which I got from The Cake Bible.
I was extremely thankful for my mother-in-law lending me her hand mixer. It made this a lot easier. I also found that the time guideline of 50-60min in the oven was off by about half an hour. ( Read more... ) -
Big Changes
So, we brought home a kitten. She's half Bengal, half Scottish Fold, all cuteness. Though she did yowl all the way home in the car. And pee in her box. And it went all down my leg. So now we need to clean the car ( Read more... )