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Musicals, Music and random stuff
Its been a busy couple of months with reports (blech - someone remind me why I want to be a teacher again when report time comes around), a couple of weekends away for concerts and shows and random other stuff that's been popping up regularly. But I had to comment on a bunch of stuff ( Read more... ) -
Mixed news day
Today I had a chat with my mentor teacher about next term... They are taking away one of my tough English class, on the one hand i've been having trouble with them and this is the class that made someone quit, on the other does this mean they think i'm crap cause I can't handle them? I think i'll be bringing this up tomorrow with someone up the ( Read more... ) -
Happy Star Trek Day!
No spoilers cause I still haven't seen it but if I don't enjoy it you'll probably hear the anguished cry from wherever you are (yes even those of you in the UK). Today I walked into school wearing a red shirt and told the kids if they worked out why I was worried they'd get a prize - responses ranged from "It's a first date" to "You're worried the ( Read more... ) -
Happy Nerd Easter!
Doctor Who premiere in the morning, Game of Thrones on Monday - less than a month till the return of Warehouse 13 and the start of Defiance so i'm declaring this my personal nerd month ( Read more... ) -
Work, work, work.
For the last few weeks i've been working at the local middle school on a week to week basis. There were hints it would be till the end of term but they'd only confirm a week at a time. Thursday is the end of the term and work has added up to four and a half weeks straight. Which is awesome considering each day is being paid at the casual rate ( Read more... ) -
Work news
Spent another day at the local middle school yesterday. I was kind of hoping they'd give me some more work neext week and they actually did better than that. I got offered a week of teaching art/photography at the other campus of their school when I got there in the morning. Art is not really my thing but photography would be fun so of course I ( Read more... ) -
Missing work and the craziness that that causes.
So finding Richard the third is kind of awesome. Okay, so there's not really any historical finds to be discovered (well beyond where he ended up) but being able to use three different ways of determining that it was Dicky 3 is brilliant to show historical methodologies and the technology to determine not just what he looked like but how he died ( Read more... ) -
Posting from a train
The weekend was spent in Newcastle going to Rob's 30th. It's still weird to see my little brother all grown up, it really should stop suprising me at some point. Anyway everything went mostly okay, same old issues with the parents and somehow I still turn into a sullen teenager when I'm around them for more than an hour but mostly we all got ( Read more... ) -
Now. Here. This.
Now. Here. This. is the second musical from the creators of [title of show] which is one of my favourite musicals. One of the reasons I love [title of show] is the smallness of it - according to one song all you need to create a broadway musical is four chairs and a keyboard and thats it. Both of the shows have four cast members (three of whom ( Read more... ) -
New Year - new thoughts
Okay so I hate the "New Years Resolutions" thing but I have some thoughts, hopes and plans for the new year and I figure writing about them makes them more firm. This is the first year out of uni and so my main hope is to find regular enough gigs as a casual teacher or hopefully be picked up by one of the schools on a contract. I would love to be ( Read more... )