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[brucegray666]

My post lunch class are currently out on work experience so I got up to date with all my marking, my after school meeting only lasted 10 minutes and I ate ice cream in the sun while I wandered to the comic shop when I got into town.

All in all a pretty damned good after noon.

[Christian U]

Whereas I was at school from half past seven to three in the afternoon, then had to walk home from the train station for three quarters of an hour because there is a bloody strike going on and I have now spent a few hours marking exams and will go on doing that for a bit.

[brucegray666]

Ha! Sucks to be you!

My day hasn't been all sunshine and lollipops but it is nice to end it with so many nice things stacking up.

[Ulf Imwiehe]

In stark contrast to the heart-wrenching examples of workaholism displayed over the last few posts in this thread I just decided to take the rest of the week off.

[Steve Sensible]

In stark contrast to the heart-wrenching examples of workaholism displayed over the last few posts in this thread I just decided to take the rest of the week off.

I've been at my desk since 6:30, and I took about 15 minutes for lunch. I wouldn't mind so much, but it's a gorgeous day outside, and the only time I left the house was to take my bins out for collection.

[Ulf Imwiehe]

I've been at my desk since 6:30, and I took about 15 minutes for lunch. I wouldn't mind so much, but it's a gorgeous day outside, and the only time I left the house was to take my bins out for collection.

I feel your pain, Steve. The last few weeks were insane so I felt like succumbing to my natural laziness at last. Which is surprisingly (and perversely) hard when you’re self-employed, don’t you agree?

[Steve Sensible]

I feel your pain, Steve. The last few weeks were insane so I felt like succumbing to my natural laziness at last. Which is surprisingly (and perversely) hard when you’re self-employed, don’t you agree?

It is. I shouldn't complain because if all goes well, I should do quite nicely out of this job. I really wanted to go for a run this morning cos I haven't done so for a few days, and my lack of exercise is not helping with my deadline stress!

[Chris Fenton]

I taught some of my lessons outside today as it was such a wonderful today. I also swapped our indoor p.e. for an outdoor p.e. session and my class and I played capture the flag.

I'm just having a quick browse of the internet before getting down to some serious work. Adding colour and detail to a Tudor street scene one point perspective drawing using pastels. Sometimes teaching primary school is a real hardship...

[brucegray666]

I just saw a mouse in the kitchen. I did the only reasonable thing a grown adult would do and tried to construct a trap out of a box, a stick and some cheese. Unfortunately we didn't have any string to spring the trap with so I've ended up sulking instead. We've got a humane mouse trap under the kitchen sink after Jill spotted on earlier in the year but it's caught half of fuck all. It pains my "love every living thing" side but it looks like I need to get my murder on and get some traditional "SNAP!" traps.

[garjones]

I came back to work today and expected a lot of work from my boss but he's been off sick. He's off sick all the time actually, I've taken half a day in the last 4 years. I'm being a bit naive aren't I? I could do it all the time and he couldn't dare to lecture me.

[craggy]

I taught some of my lessons outside today as it was such a wonderful today. I also swapped our indoor p.e. for an outdoor p.e. session and my class and I played capture the flag.

Outdoors? Don't you get glare on your monitors?

edit: OOOH YEEEEEAAAH! S Club 7 Reunion!

[Ulf Imwiehe]

Just cleaned the cat box. That beast drops some bombs like a Great Dane.

[Chris Fenton]

I just saw a mouse in the kitchen. I did the only reasonable thing a grown adult would do and tried to construct a trap out of a box, a stick and some cheese. Unfortunately we didn't have any string to spring the trap with so I've ended up sulking instead. We've got a humane mouse trap under the kitchen sink after Jill spotted on earlier in the year but it's caught half of fuck all. It pains my "love every living thing" side but it looks like I need to get my murder on and get some traditional "SNAP!" traps.

Cheese is your problem, stick some chocolate on there or even better a bit of peanut butter.

Outdoors? Don't you get glare on your monitors?

We did another lesson outside today, the kids had to do a speech about a local planning issue. This was the first lesson I taught when I joined the school last year and my current class did much better.

[craggy]

mouses don't like cheese. it's a fallacy perpetrated by those cat hating sons of guns at the Tom and Jerry studios...which is owned by The Laughing Cow. She's laughing at you because you're buying cheese under false pretences.

[Ulf Imwiehe]

My neighbor’s child is throwing a tantrum. The little guy has the voice of a demon. Of an earthquake made flesh. A draconic bowel movement. He’ll make a great Death Metal vocalist. I’m almost getting scared…

[Mike]

Sloooooooooooooow train, why are you so slooooooooooooowwww?

[brucegray666]

Mice don't like cheese?

But this means cartoons lie to children!

[Ulf Imwiehe]

Sloooooooooooooow train, why are you so slooooooooooooowwww?

[Steve Sensible]

That's way faster than anything Southwest Trains have.

[Ulf Imwiehe]

Mind the mare...!