Entry for 15 January 2008

   

No blogs again since Saturday!  I really have to get back into my daily blog habit but I just seem to be so busy at the moment.  Sunday was a quiet day at home catching up on jobs as usual.  Yesterday and today I have been in school in the afternoons  invigilating.  

It is going OK.  Most of these exams are re-sits or "A"  levels so the number of students is smaller and they are well behaved.  Todays exam was a year 11 GCSE module for biology and there were 70 of them.  They were all well behaved, but nearly a half of them had no identification.

This is a new ruling, which states that we must be able to identify every candidate.  To facilitate this, they must display their school ID card on the desk.  These cards are on lanyards and the children wear them around their necks as do staff.  They are supposed to wear them at all times while on the school premises.  Apparently half of them had left them at home.   This meant fetching a teacher to identify the ones that I didn't know.  With approaching 2000 children in this new school it is impossible to know all of them!!

Since I have been home, I have been resting as I don't actually feel great.  I felt a bit rough yesterday, but today I feel worse.  I am really hoping that I am not going down with one of the winter bugs that circulate at this time of year.  I am very achy and hot and cold.  Simon is going to go and get me some vitamin C after dinner, as that is my favourite way of warding off bugs.  Mega doses of vitamin "C".  I know it isn't proven, and it may just be all in my head, but I think it works.  Simon is going to cook dinner too.

I think I will do some reading and have an early night.  I am reading a book called Magic seeds by V.S. Naipaul.  He was the winner of the Nobel prize in Literature.  I am struggling with it a bit, but I will persevere.  I don't like a book to beat me.  One book that did was "For Whom the bell tolls" by Hemingway.   I hadn't read any Hemingway's and thought I should so a friend lent me FWTBT.  (abbrev)   

I really tried with it, honest!   I even reread bits, but it was just so boring!   The long, LOOOOOOG, passages of narrative were just too repetitive for me.   I got about half way through and could bare it no longer.  The first half of the book is about the plans to blow up the bridge, which they discuss endlessly, over and over until I was just thinking....please blow up the bloody bridge and get it over with!  I gave up finally, when it dawned on me that I really don't have to read a book to the bitter end if I don't want too!

One person who won't be winning any prizes for literature, but gave me a good laugh, is the person who sent me this invite today.   Read the following:

Sent to: jilly

to Jilly the girl with wings who went for her stars... well sort of weird way to say hi, but you wanted it different. dint read your blog to be frank but liked its outlook first up. moreover you seem someone hell bent upon excesses b'cos those 3 spotted whoofers are as if all your children & grandchild aren't enough for the big girl. thought i should send you an invite, b'cos it was a teaser of a challenge you had put up. might be we'll hit it off or might be we'll see it off but we'll never tire off admiring the nuances & expressive corners of poetry. do you see light a the end of the tunnel?

You just have to laugh, don't you.  I still get lots of invites and always delete them all.  I barely have the time at the moment for my very good friends.  I definitely don't have time for people who actually say in their invite that they haven't even read my blog!!!  I assume this must be a "friend collector".  I'm not into that.   Never mind, it made me laugh.

Right time to go now, I think as I am getting more and more tired.  Back tomorrow.  Or later today if the mood takes me!