There are some things that, if you hadn’t witnessed them with your own eyes, you wouldn’t believe them. So I suspect you won’t believe me, but it has to be recorded so I don’t forget it myself. There is an intersection close to my house where traffic making a right-hand turn (think left-hand-turn, you silly [...]
Archive for October, 2005
things that go wrong
Posted in birdbrain, brisbin, teach me on Thursday, 20 October, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
if you’re goin down south, they got no work to do
Posted in travel on Monday, 17 October, 2005 | 1 Comment »
I was wondering whether I’d ever taste beignets again. You might even know the place that was well-known for making them: Cafe Du Monde. They sure were nice. It was a windy day when I had them, and I had them only once. The beignets were snowed under so much by a layer of icing [...]
buzzword bingo
Posted in parentals, teach me on Tuesday, 11 October, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
I am usually a cynical person when it comes to professional development days. I don’t often attend them, but the ones I have usually are of the unuseful variety — hence the cynicism. For what was meant to be a whole-day seminar which I was actually looking forward to about the new P-10 English Syllabus [...]
the cynical socialite
Posted in music, outage, teach me on Sunday, 9 October, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
There was a dress code at the barbeque Drew and I went to last night, and I struggled to come to terms as to how I would address it. I didn’t realise that when Drew meant “dress casually”, he didn’t mean “wear a tight nylon singlet and mini skirt two sizes too small for your [...]
