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[Jun. 27th, 2009|01:43 pm] |
By the way, can I just say a big yay for the modern world? I am sitting in the garden watching Wimbledon on my laptop. It is awesome. Also, am probably going to get a new phone before I go over to London this evening to hang out with people and stuff.
Passed my final assessment, for those who haven't heard so am now a qualified teacher! This means that I am now under much less stress for the rest of the summer. Managed to pick up a disgusting cold last weekend (probably somewhat stress related) but that's now improving too and I managed not to lose my voice or actually take time off school (although I did spend a day doing group work instead of whole class teaching, which helped). I now return to the land of key stage two for the final few weeks of term, which will be a relief! I was convinced I'd picked up the vomiting bug yesterday but fortunately the feeling passed without incident and now I have no work do to this weekend :) |
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[Jun. 27th, 2009|01:24 pm] |
Now Las Iguanas is usually a resturant that I'm pretty fond of. I've even given them my email address, for goodness sake! So when they asked me to do a survey, I thought "Yeah, OK then." That's when I was confronted with this on page 1:
EPIC FAIL. I tried to go through the survey to see if there was a comments box I could rant into but no sign of one so I will have to email them my displeasure. |
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[Jun. 16th, 2009|06:37 pm] |
Well, I've got my final assessment next week for my course, which I've been working on getting the various documents up to date for (those of you watching the reflective journal may have noticed a few updates :) ). I am currently writing a claim statement detailing how I meet the 31 QTS standards for qualifying as a teacher. Makes me feel something of a prat as it's mostly spouting various random bits of jargon but apparently I have to do it.
So, as if that wasn't enough, my mentor pulled me aside this afternoon to let me know that the University of Reading are being inspected and we've been randomly selected to be inspected! So someone's coming in from the equivalent of OFSTED to talk to us and then watch me teach for an hour to check that the University's opinion of my progress is reasonable. Just what I needed. I guess as it's so close to the final inspection at least I won't have to do any more work than I was already going to!
Nearly there... |
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[Jun. 1st, 2009|02:40 pm] |
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Oh, also, does anyone want an online storage account? Because I can totally recommend DropBox - actually works and has a tasteful web interface which is significantly better than any of the other ones I've tried. If you join via that link, we both get extra space... |
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[Jun. 1st, 2009|02:32 pm] |
Blackadder, Black Books, IT Crowd, Coupling, Spaced, Red Dwarf, Yes (Prime)Minister.
Poll #1409209
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: AllWhat other UK sitcoms would you add to this list of things to send Americans? |
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[May. 24th, 2009|09:34 pm] |
Am in Vegas. There is a hot tub and awesome people. Also, wedding this afternoon :) |
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[May. 22nd, 2009|08:18 am] |
YESTERDAY: GOT A JOB FOR NEXT YEAR!!!! WOO!!!
TOMORROW: VEGAS!!!! |
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[May. 19th, 2009|06:28 pm] |
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Oh god, get me to Vegas. I am snapping at Alex now. This is not good. |
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[May. 18th, 2009|12:21 pm] |
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One interview done - went ok, I think. Got home to letter offering another interview Thursday, as well as having one on Friday and my tutor coming on Weds! Thank goodness for Vegas on Saturday! |
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[May. 13th, 2009|03:25 pm] |
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Why is it that every time I feel like I'm getting things under control again, I get sick? I feel rotten and have been off school all day. I just hope I get rid of it by half term! |
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[May. 6th, 2009|10:14 pm] |
I actually did something useful! I am caught up on the internet (well, not on web comics, but much closer than before). Am not caught up on school stuff but will get to that another evening soon, honest!
Didn't get the job, but not the end of the world. Going to see another school tomorrow... |
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[Apr. 29th, 2009|11:13 pm] |
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First job interview tomorrow! Wish me luck... |
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[Apr. 26th, 2009|06:15 pm] |
Well, am safely back from the wilds of Devon, where I have been shepherding 42 year six children on an activity holiday. The kids werea actually very good but the whole thing was very physically exhausting - you're being active all day and then supervising the children. I was completely wiped by the end of it! Also, no internets, no radio 4 and spotty mobile phone reception! I am amazed I survived!
In other news, I have got a job interview at the school I've been training at, which is pretty awesome as they don't generally employ their students. As per my mentor, I'm not getting my hopes up, but in the worst case, it'll be good practice for other future job interviews. Put in an application for another place this week too. Lots of jobs came up while I was away so I have to wade through them and do a bunch more apps later.
I have finally made it through my email, had a hot bath and read some of my fp (I am *way* too behind to actually catch it up though!). Am going to try to get into the posting habit a bit more again once I have caught up with my reflective journal and so on. We'll see how long the resolution lasts... |
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[Mar. 1st, 2009|10:41 pm] |
Well, despite the onset of PMT closely followed by, well, MT, I have actually managed to be reasonably productive this weekend. Mostly what I've been doing is taking advantage of Alex having disassembled the spare bed to turn the spare bedroom into an office for me. I spent a very pleasant few hours measuring items of furniture scheduled to remain and fixtures before drawing up a plan in Gliffy (I always have to have a plan. When I was about 13, I made a scale drawing of my bedroom with all the furniture as cut-outs I could move around and stick on with blu-tack, the better to plan my periodic furniture moves.) When I finally found some furniture I liked and a layout that would work, I was seized with a sudden urgent desire to just buy the stuff now and actually drove out to Ikea on Saturday evening to pick up the bits.
We built the shell of the desk when I got back on Saturday night and I did the drawers, doors and office chair this morning. Since then I've been tying away on my laptop at plans for lessons next week and taking breaks by clearing up the room and sorting out some of the things that need to be freecycled. I always find it interesting that one of the fundamental differences between Alex and I is that I enjoy tidying up - I find it restful and pleasing - and he not only doesn't but has such a visceral reaction to it that he can't understand how I possibly can.
So now I have a desk. And Things in their Right Places. This is good. And I have got over what should be the worst of the (P)MT on a weekend so should be all ready to be nice to my class next week. We'll see how it goes :) |
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[Feb. 26th, 2009|10:58 pm] |
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Alex is officially bestest boyfriend in the whole wide world. He can has fixed the computer/tv crash that fritzed out last night and refused to accept just rebooting, after spending an evening wrestling with settings files. Seriously, he's awesome. |
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