For the last couple of years i've been getting steadily more addicted to lego building. Yes, it's something random to get interested in at the age of 30ish but hey, i've always been late to the party. It started because of an assignment - I had to interview a child and work out what developmental age they were. I borrowed a friends 8 year old who ( Read more... )

One of my subjects this semester is creative writing. Which seems like it should be okay. But the problem is everytime I sit down to write something I can't think of anything. Which has led to the song "Die, Vampire, Die" from Title of Show to run through my head and while that's fun it's possibly a little counterproductive. Now considering ( Read more... )

This journal is turning into me posting only on uni breaks... Wednesday I finished my last exam for second semester and what will probably be my last uni exam cause all my education subjects are focused on assignments not exams. Here's hoping i've passed everything (some results should be back this week ( Read more... )

So this (or variations of this) have been reposted a couple of times to my flist ( Read more... )

Yesterday at work my co-worker complained that "It's just so disrepectful that they've put Easter on at the same time as ANZAC Day. It's just terrible don't you think? ." Now I was stunned for a moment and then recovered enough to say, "Well i'm pretty sure it's based on the lunar cycle and the liturgical calender. I don't think they chose it ( Read more... )

...that should go unsaid to pretty much anyone sensible. Not all theatre is for everyone. I have never heard of a show that hasn't got people that both love it and despise it. Before you book tickets to see a show have a look at what it's about ( Read more... )

One of my plans for summer is to catch up on reading I haven't had time to do while I was at uni and try and knock off as much on my literature reading lists next year. Since there is a crap load of books I figured I wouldn't clog everyone's flists with these. But to keep track of them I'm also blogging quick thoughts about the books ( Read more... )

This summer i’m going to be helping out at the local library with the young adult reading group so I thought I should read a bunch of young adult novels so that I knew what to recommend. Who am I kidding? I read a heap of young novels anyway it’s just that I know I have a better excuse for it. I saw Boy in the Striped Pyjamas last year at the ( Read more... )

The Friends of Wodonga Library were having a sale of books that had been weeded in the last couple of months today. While they are apparently "Friends" they don't particularly like the new staff and my suspicion would be that they dropped their prices so that they can say they don't have as much money to support the new staff and management. ( Read more... )

So i've got a couple of decent marks back lately and today I think I've had some really great feedback. A couple of months ago I did a lesson for my lit class that was designed to be a lesson for year 8. I did a lesson introducing Shakespeare to a Year 8 class in a way that most 14 year olds should have found fun and interesting and I had a great ( Read more... )