As a department head I spend my days at work running about putting out fires between teaching my own classes.

I've just realised that the majourity of my stress comes from the fact that I'd much rather be the one starting them.

Home room just ending, one girl spies my sonic screwdriver in my pocket. She asks to have a look, so I hand it over to her ( Read more... )

You know those days that dawn with you arising completely rested, imagination firing and mind alive with purpose ( Read more... )

And so the media frenzy begins ( Read more... )

The undisputed Matriarch of my family, my grandmother, will unfortunately soon be passing that title on. There is so little left of her now, she's on oxygen even when home from the hospital and trying to convince her to eat anything at all is next to impossible ( Read more... )

A room with a cube, originally uploaded by marsden_mirrordark.
The funny bit about this image is that I was just using it to play around with texture maps during lunchtime in the lab when a student walked in carrying a cake box...


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Just had an ... interesting ... moment on the bike ( Read more... )

Messages left on a phone at work ( Read more... )

You are sending your child to High School for Year 7. You intend, however, to home school them two days out of every five since really it's only languages that you can't teach yourself. Do you ( Read more... )

Having some time to actually sit at my desk between emergencies at the moment, looking back at the year now coming to a close seemed appropriate. And since I've been writing far too many school reports recently, the format just wrote itself.

Lessons learned:

• No matter how explicit you make instructions to someone taking over your job, there are ( Read more... )