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Tuesday

20/07/2010 Joh food, home, work

I know, it’s not a very imaginative title. I’ve been spending some time after school this week getting my computer and blogs up to date with back end stuff. Andy’s Poohduck is getting lots of hits, but the stat’s weren’t working and other things so I thought I’d better finally get round to doing something about that. He’s been taking some wonderful photo’s lately. I also have had more time available to me to potter around with these things. I’ve got my school blogs almost under control lately. See below for the reasons!

I’ve been catching up with heaps of stuff this week with no year 10 classes. The school ground is so empty. I am going visiting starting tomorrow. I was given a list of students to visit and made some calls today to make times to visit them. I am looking forward to it and wish I could visit every student I’ve taught, but that would be most of them, and I don’t have enough hours in the day. Some of them are in Melbourne with newspapers or architects, so I guess it’s not practical to get around that much in a week.

Darin has a new, more time consuming role at work. A couple of people at work have told me how wonderful the food is where is chef. I felt very proud of him, but I certainly already knew how great his food is. He’s working long hours and talking menu’s at home. Last night the conversation made me hungry. I decided I would wait and cook dinner and eat with him tonight. Just steak and veges, nothing as yummy as what he was talking about. Steak and veges will be good though and it’s better than getting stuck into cheese and biscuits at some awfully late hour! My waistline is expanding lately… what with all the chocolate and lemon tarts I’ve been practicing on and just a greater focus on food in general I guess. I do try to give the tarts away and I have done a lot of that, but you always have to eat some, just to make sure it is ok :-) .

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To Do List

31/03/2008 Joh holidays

I made a huge ‘To Do’ list this morning. I woke up feeling the holidays were melting away too quickly and I wasn’t getting things done in time. I have been pottering around all day on a number of things but when I checked tonight, I had barely touched anything on that list!

How did that happen?

Ah well tomorrow is another day! I had a good day though. I made some decisions that are pleasing to me. I did lots of little things I promised people. I wish I had put those things on the list actually and then I would have been able to put a line through a few things and feel a sense of achievement. I’m almost tempted to add them to the list and then cross them out just to remind me I did get something useful done today. There’s no more room on that page though!

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I propose on 29th February 2008

29/02/2008 Joh relationships

We get an extra day this year! I haven’t done anything special with it. I haven’t felt that it was an extra day.  It was a Friday though, so that made it feel good.

Traditionally it’s a once in four years opportunity for women to propose marriage. I missed it! Can’t say if I wanted to get married I would wait for this date to come around again. I think if I felt like proposing I would just do it. I think if I felt like proposing I would just keep it to myself in reality. I would enjoy that feeling though. Imagine loving someone enough to want to marry them. What a great feeling that would be.

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I don’t wear a watch

27/02/2008 Joh random, work

I don’t wear a watch. I have owned several but they always just die on me, very soon after I start wearing them. I have tried replacing batteries and normal things like that but now I have just resolved myself to life without a watch.

I rely on clocks in the classroom to ensure my timing works. When I am in a classroom with no clock, I always ask a student to let me know when there is 10 minutes left. Today I was teaching away, and getting off topic (as I do from time to timeWink) and I glanced at the clock feeling it was probably time to start wrapping up. It looked as though there was heaps of time left and I thought “It feels like time is standing still today”, but really it was just the clock that standing still because 2 seconds later, the bell went!

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Hanging on to Summer

10/02/2008 Joh astrology, home

Today it was sunny. Crisp and sunny! Delicious. It felt like Autumn, which I love. I felt totally good. From the minute I glanced at the blueness of this mornings sky, I was totally in a different mood from yesterday. I could say the things I wanted to say to people. I could clean up. I was better than yesterday.

Yesterday with it’s rain and cold was just a preview of what’s coming up and I tried to prepare for it today. I know it’s early and I don’t want to live under a cloud of concern about winter. I am a Snake in Chinese astrology and winter makes me want to hibernate. If I could just stay home, sleep, eat and stay warm, it would be fine, but I can’t so I have a little dread of winter.

Today I rearranged my furniture.I made my couch face the wood heater so I can appreciate it more (if I ever use it again). Halfway through last winter I bought a reverse cycle air conditioner for instant warmth in winter. I won’t have to get home in the dark, bring in the wood and try to get a fire going, which would get the house warm by the time I’m ready to go to bed. I finally replaced my TV.

Really there is nothing to worry about. I’m nearly prepared. When Autumn starts turning on me, I will get out the flanelette sheets and bring forward the extra clothing layers I’ll need. Now I can relax and enjoy the rest of summer.

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City Traffic

21/01/2008 Joh gratitude

When I lived in the outer suburbs of Melbourne, I did temp admin work for a couple of years. It would take me an hour to get to work and an hour to come home, no matter what direction I had to go in.  It takes me around 5 minutes to get to work now, I could walk in half an hour and I probably should. I could get there without going through any traffic lights if I wanted to go the long way.

Today I had an apponitment in the city at 9.00am so I got a reminder of what life was like back then. I looked around at the single passengers in all those cars (I was alone in my car too) and thought that we really aren’t changing our habits much. I guess people who drive, are like me and want to have the convenience of their car for a variety of reasons. It’s just so expensive time and money wise. The tolls and the parking, as well as the additional hours away from home. That kind of driving would be expensive fuel wise also. I feel for them. There are so many of them!

In the city today a woman rode by on a bike wearing a skirt suit and high heels. I was astonished to think how uncomfortable she would be, or rather I would be if I was riding a bike in such an outfit. It made me smile. I also saw a couple riding bikes together and as they parted at an intersection, they leant across and kissed each other goodbye for the day. Sweet!

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Daylight Savings Blues

29/10/2007 Joh random

It was a rough start to the work week for me today. The students noticed the clock reading quarter to eight and we all sat around in homeroom in a bit of a daze, imagining that just a week ago, we’d have had an extra hour in bed. We never considered we’d have gone to bed an hour earlier as well.

Having the delightful time at camp last week, meant catching up with my other classes and the notices and such that go on when you are out for three days. I noticed a few others were dragging their feet a little also around me. Sometimes we just have days like these I guess.

I do love daylight savings though. I have always looked forward to those extra daylight hours that give the impression of more time. Perhaps it is more useful time. I’m not sure. History tells me I will come to like it.

The one year I wasn’t a fan was when I was cutting asparagus for a season. We began work at sunrise and daylight savings effectively meant finishing an hour later.

All in all though, there are still 24 hours in the day. No matter how it feels.

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Eyelash Moon

28/07/2006 Joh astrology, home

Last night the moon was like a little glowing eyelash. It is like a blink of a moon. I had made my new moon goals so I could wink back. I hate it when I see that little slither of moon and I have not made the time to set the goal for the moon. I feel like I am too late by such a small slip of time. Last night I could simply enjoy it.

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Fleeting Weekend

23/07/2006 Joh home

The sun has been out and it has all been too leisurely. The weekend has passed me by and I have not managed to do all my usual routines, but I can’t think for a minute why not. It has just passed. I haven’t overslept, or cooked, or blogged a lot. I am really baffled as to where it has gone.

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Questions

13/07/2006 Joh learn

What will the new media laws mean for us? I just heard them mention them on the news. I got my update from the Buckminster Fuller Institute and they referred to an article about the UN saying something inspiring this question:Is it possible to power the world with solar power from the sahara desert?
Which makes me wonder:Whatever happened to GENI? I really want to know what progress has been made and whether this is possible. I should check it out. but….
These questions and others remain unanswered tonight, because I feel really very tired and am going to blob in front of the TV, then head to bed early with my book. I am enjoying my week though and not sure why I feel so tired. Never mind, go with the flow, even to bed…

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