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still exploring some attitudes
This morning I saw a man on the bus wearing a T-shirt which said (in one of those nice vintage fonts):
I'm not a
GYNAECOLOGIST
but I'll have a look
I found this mildly offensive, but funny at the same time. Not sure why I am offended, exactly.
This thing is, though, the middle word was much bigger than the others, and because I like vintage it was ( Read more... ) -
10 books about being a teacher
In roughly descending order of excellence (by which I mean getting across what it's really like to be a teacher), IMHO.- Evelyn Waugh - Decline and Fall
- Joanne Harris - Gentlemen and Players
- Zoe Heller - Notes on a Scandal
- H.F. Ellis - The Papers of A.J.Wentworth, B.A
- Carol Goodman - The Lake of Dead Languages
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loss of embodiment
Had anyone else noticed the lack of embodiment. It's gone! sassyredbitch has started a new community called embodiiment (see her post today in ( Read more... ) -
really?!?! vol.2
Teaching my 15-year-olds this morning, we did a passage about a Greek lady philosopher walking through Rome and being shouted at "with rude words" by some workmen. I then explained to my pupils that this was in many ways a British cultural reference, because, once upon a time before it was made illegal [and, yes, starstealinggirl, I know that there ( Read more... ) -
unnervingly true
I dreamed last night that (in the middle of a complex sequence of events) someone, whose opinion matters to me very much, said: "It's no wonder that it takes three people to like you." I think I know what they meant, and I'm really sorry everyone! -
really?!?! "I'm too young to feel so old ..."
I have been startling myself in the last few days with how long I have done some things for.
So, for instance, I realised in a comment to someone the other day that I have been knitting for 39 years - really! - I am 43 and I started at the age of 4. Admittedly, I wasn't making historic designer garments at that age, but I did make an oblong of ( Read more... ) -
PROCRASTINATION II - THE "TO-DO" LIST ...
Just when you thought it was safe ( Read more... )