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The crack_van overview of The History Boys. Which I want more fic for, so you should all go read the summary and then watch the film.

:D?

The perils of procrastination (or, Ebay is the devil)

Dear brain:

Yes, you do need to see Miller's Crossing, apparently, and you can when you've planned some lessons. And watched, y'know, Missing and The Seer. But the lessons first.

On the other hand, no, you don't need to buy a sextant. You really, really don't. No matter how pretty they are. And you really shouldn't bid on the 1856 book about navigation, either. Well. Not again. ¬_¬

not really all that much love, considering,

Nny

BIRTHDAY UPDATES

God, sorry I've been so late to get back to this.

ETA: Would help to say that I'm planning for the ice skating, dinner, whatever to be on the 16th of December, with additional recreational activities on the 15th, most likely.

ETA2: Man, I suck at providing helpful info. WRT ice skating, I'm thinking Alexandra Palace (opening times). Let me know if you have huge objections. :D

PLEASE TO ANSWER POLL!

[Poll #1098896]

If anyone planning on coming could drop their mobile numbers into the screened comments that'd be enormously helpful. I want to see as many people as possible over the weekend, and I'm prepared to be very flexible and spend silly amounts of money to ensure that, so seriously suggest whatever would be most convenient for you and I'll do my damndest to fit it in.

Oh, and I'm going to be twenty er... two. Obviously. None of this week-and-a-day until I'm a quarter of a century old crap. ¬_¬

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Ahahahahahaha oh holy crap.

So I just had a moment of 'WTF, where is my memory stick?' and I looked in all the normal places I put it and there was no sign of it and I had a horrified moment when I realised that in fact it had been in the pocket of my trousers. The pocket of the trousers that had just gone through the wash.

Memory sticks = apparently surprisingly resilient.

*carefully copies ALL WORK from this term onto computer*

Consider my lesson officially learned.

*headdesks*

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I find it amusing that I don't notice I'm stressed until I get symptoms. I am incapable of reading the state of my own mind until I'm veering between fighting off tears and giggling in a high pitched and worryingly manic fashion when on the phone with soupytwist.

Sorry, soupytwist.

I want to be writing and I want to be watching the THREE SG:A episodes I have yet to watch, now, but I seem kinda incapable of planning lessons until the Last Possible Moment. But I have vaguely planned out most of the rest of the lessons I have to do before Christmas; general concepts I will be teaching if not the actual content. So that's nice. I just can't help but think I'm a crap teacher. I'm unable to think of what I want to teach the kidlets as opposed to how I'm going to teach them. And the how without the what? KINDA IMPOSSIBLE. I need to retrain my brain and it's difficult to remember to do that what with all the other stuff I need to be thinking about.

Sigh.

I need to make up a list of rules on how to plan lessons and laminate 'em and stick 'em up on my wall, only I know I'd just forget to put in the most important ones.

Loads o' you guys have teacherly experience and thoughts and general wisdom - what should go on my 'how to plan and be organised and be sort of awesome' list?