For some reason, I am VERY ANNOYED at students who are incapable of tying their answer scripts together. What is so difficult about tying a double knot? Why do you instead spend time colouring the string? Why must I keep stapling your papers together instead?
So annoying.
2.5 hour concert. Almost all of his greatest hits. Great vocals. Fantastic piano playing.
Awesomely brilliant.
There are 13 on the roll for this class. Six are on work experience and four are absent or truanting. Only one of the three pupils present has a pen.
With only three students, it is possible to sit around a desk with all of them. You can look straight into their eyes. There is nothing there. You explain: they say yes. Your questions start off okay, but quickly become “finish my sentence” type questions and eventually “complete the last syllable of the last word.”
An excerpt from the very interesting Teacher’s Diary published in Private Eye, a British magazine. It may be a different context, but the situations remain the same.
Am in a somewhat negative mood as a result of something that happened in school. Nothing to do with the kids. Sigh - don’t want to talk about it. The more things change, the more they remain the same.
In the grand scheme of things, it wasn’t really anything major but maybe it was the last straw? And my back is broken - I feel decidedly blah about my job today. Perhaps my mood will pick up tomorrow and this will just be a distant memory.
Maybe.
It’s Free Comic Book Day today but I didn’t get any free comics. Oh well, I was too lazy to haul myself to G & B Comics to get them, plus I forgot my membership number. I hope they have it on record. Also, I’m not too keen on crowds and I suspect that the place would have been pretty crowded today. I am also not very comfortable being a comic book nerd, so I try to avoid such places. 
It’s funny how my interest in comics have snowballed over the past few months. I’ve always had some interest in what my friend calls “coloured comics” from young. Superman has always been my favourite superhero although for some time, I had the impression that Marvel comics were cooler than DC. I never did read a lot of comics though, until a couple of years ago. I did watch a number of superhero tv shows and movies.
I started by picking up a few trade paperbacks - Kingdom Come (because I liked the art) and the very good Secret Identity by Kurt Busiek. And after a while, I would randomly buy trades like Fables or N.E.X.T.W.A.V.E to read. And then, for some reason, in Melbourne, I bought “Till Death Do Us Part”, a Superman trade. It wasn’t a particularly good collection - there are better stories in the Superman universe, but that seemed to trigger my urge to buy comics. So now I have most of the Superman TPB and have caught up with 52 - the DC event and am very curious about the upcoming Final Crisis. I doubt I will read Countdown after all the poor reviews I have seen online.
I have become a comic book nerd. I only realised this at a comic shop with Kiat. He pointed to a Power Girl figure and I rattled off her background. I don’t even read Power Girl. And I know stuff like how Wonder Woman is wooing Nemesis and that Blue Beetle is one of the few Latin American superheroes around and other such pointless trivia. Of course, my knowledge is limited - ask me about Checkmate or the New Gods and I know close to nothing. And I know nothing about the Marvel universe. I think I can only handle one comic universe at a time.
ETA: I have added a new category for my posts - pointless drivel, which really is what this is. 
Returned home to find mail from my employer. How strange. Usually, mail from them is sent to my school.
Things get even stranger. My employer has sent me mail to persuade me to be …. a teacher?!
ETA: Turns out I’m not the only one they wasted postage and paper and labour on. Exclusive event indeed.
This is the strangest news I have heard all day. I can’t seem to get my head around it …
Midway Games Inc., a leading interactive entertainment software publisher and developer, today announced Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe, licensed by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. When a cataclysmic force merges conquerors from two universes, conflict is inevitable. Kombat forces friends to fight, worlds to collide, and unlikely alliances to be forged. In order to save all they know, the heroes and villains of Mortal Kombat must wage war against the combined might of the DC Universe (DCU). How can either side prevail when rage blinds them to the dark threat poised to destroy them all?
Scorpio vs Superman? Batman vs Sub-zero? So very odd.