It was like the stuff of my schoolgirl fantasies: a weekend camping in the bush with 6 ex St Laurences students. After a heavy day of mountain climbing, they all were forced to take off their shirts and play cricket. I was so excited that I even got to take one home with me, and [...]
Archive for October, 2006
i heart camping
Posted in dan dan he's our man, outage, travel on Tuesday, 31 October, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
formal attire
Posted in teach me on Tuesday, 24 October, 2006 | 3 Comments »
Yet again, for two years in a row, I have enjoyed my students’ formal more than I did my own. As much fun as it is to see all the students and get totally jealous of their attractive dresses and dapper suits, having a few light glasses of champagne beforehand with the other teachers is [...]
things get better
Posted in teach me on Thursday, 19 October, 2006 | 2 Comments »
Yes, I totally got paid to go to the Gold Coast Indy today, and you didn’t. I got to watch cars of various assortments go round and round, and then walk and walk around the track, and then spend more time on the bus back to school than at the actual destination itself. There’s this [...]
rhymin’ and stealin’
Posted in brisbin, me on Tuesday, 10 October, 2006 | 3 Comments »
During a late-night drive home from the Valley a few weeks ago with Freyja we went past the Alderly Arms hotel, where I proceed to launch into some riveting anecdote:
“Oh, this reminds me of another time I drove past this pub at night; I was by myself and these guys ran out from the footpath [...]
the unprofessionals
Posted in teach me on Monday, 9 October, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
The sign of a truly great professional is the desire to reach the end of a term before they’ve even pulled off the highway at Caboolture. Genuine professionals also sit in the car, in the car park, mumbling at each other about their hatred of having their two week holiday brutally cut short. Us teachers [...]
gallivanting towards the grindstone
Posted in me, teach me on Sunday, 8 October, 2006 | 4 Comments »
Golly gee, is it that time already? I feel like I should throw a tantrum today, declaring I don’t want to go back to school already. I’m having too much fun. And by fun I mean more hangovers these holidays than I’ve had in the entire year, which means I have reverted to judging a [...]
lost causes
Posted in haus, me on Tuesday, 3 October, 2006 | 3 Comments »
I am late at catching on to the latest television phenomena. If I miss the first episode of any innovative new series, I declare it a lost cause and never try to catch up.
Witness, then, the amount of TV series I have later watched on DVD and become hideously addicted to, way, way later than [...]
