Categories: and-another-thing, general-stuff
Tags: college
Date: 24 March 2009 08:34:26
SO the weekend was pretty busy all told. Mum's day took priority of course so Saturday was taking daughter out to buy things and Sunday was the normal cook, clear up and all that jazz. Was fun, except for the washing machine breaking down which meant all jobs cooking wise were doubled at short notice :(
We even found time to buy a new hamster, now named Totoro, because, again, daughter had been pining for one. We'd lost one to old age about a month or so back and she'd saved up her birthday money and that's what she wanted to buy.
When we got to the garden centre that sold small animals we found there were only two in: a chinese hamster which was very small and very cute and another that had a sign on the cage which said 'requires special care'. When asked it turned out that someone else had bought it, not treated it brilliantly and returned the hamster in a bit of a nippy state. Instantly daughter was insistent that that was the one we had to have and, a couple of days in, Totoro seems a little calmer and happier so that's good. Daughter read her a book the other day and I'm not saying she listened attentively but she didn't go to sleep through it so that's good then.
Apart from that I've now moved into full time at the college pretty much split between visual arts and ICT. Which is a funner mix than I thought it sounded at the beginning. Shame there's no planning time built in but then again there never has been anyhow and, for the next two weeks I'm delivering someone else's lesson plans anyhow (which has its own pitfalls but hey, saves on the schemes) and it's not until after Easter that things hot up in both departments.
IN fact it's time to get onto the next job I notice: onwards.