i'm getting married in the morning...

and before you go all weird and all strange on me...the title doesn't apply to me. once was enough. seriously. but my baby bro (a whole two years younger) went and did it again. and you know what? if I was ever to do it again...and believe me I never will ...what he did is actually a good way to go. his new missus is very practical I think. plus, bonus, i like her, the whole shebang lasted 10 minutes, and even then they stretched it out cos they felt a bit guilty. the legal I marry you stuff takes 2 minutes. now that's my kind of wedding.
PS. he was divorced for two whole weeks...how can he sow his wild oats in that time...still you never know what you never know. we have a lot of commonalities and also a lot of differences. and I may extrapolate on that in a later post. if I can remember. and if I can solve my hindi problem...your help please.

i am an illegal alien

loose song connection here but i had a really weird day and i will explain the reference forthwith. my class is really challenging and we are disrupting their programme by having what we call 'festival week'. we have lots of fun activities which should really disrupt their status quo. well yesterday it did...they were appalling. but today it was like they had all been abducted by aliens and swapped with nice, compliant, thinking beings. i had a fantastic day. it was surreal...bet the old ones are back tomorrow.

my boss loves memos. everytime we are naughty we get a memo about it. today's was about people being outside after 2.30pm. this is a no-no. you must be in your classrooms. no exceptions.

what's the haps bro?

not much...except my blog appears in hindi and i have no idea how to fix it...any ideas?...cos it's bloody annoying
and speaking of hindi...i'm reading Q & A...up to chapter 2...it's hard to read any quicker when you only read during the sermon on a sunday

one black friday

yay! i found a song title to go with today's entry...however, that doesn't mean today's entry is gonna be that exciting...not sure what you're gonna see when i upload this but there's some crazy shit going on. there's some hindi characters going on...
so..the title...it's a mockers song...andrew fagan who was the lead singer does a regular radio slot with his wife karen hay who was the radio with pictures chick in the 80s. i listen quite regularly...they're pretty good. but i digress...again...i have a more mundane question for all you mathematicians out there (and you know who you are)...how often does a black friday happen in feb and march...and should i buy a lottery ticket?
i'm gonna upload this now...sans editing cos half of it is in hindi...goodness knows what will appear...wish me luck...
PS..in case you're wondering...i've had to edit several times now to get it looking like as you see it...

i hate text speak

i really tried to think of a song title to fit this blog cos that was kinda my loose theme for the last few entries. i still might find one yet.

i have enlightened you to one of my pet peeves (people out of rhythm at the gym) and now i'm gonna share another. the clue to it is in the title.

yes...i hate text speak. especially when your text isn't even near to the limit and you're not trying to conserve letters. please spell correctly.

and on another subject. i went over the new road they're building. the dowse interchange (i could be all fancy and put a link here...but if you're interested and motivated you'll do the research yourself). i was very underwhelmed by it all. even my engineer friend, who for him a big new road like that is like porn, was underwhelmed. in his quietly conservative way he said that they were perhaps a week premature in opening it. but it sure was interesting to see how they spent millions of my dollars. i'm guessing when it's finished it'll be worth it.

a bientot

oh terry...

yeah..i know...the real title is oh sherrie...but his name is terry.

and before you get excited he is the instructor at the gym for the tuesday night combat class. last night's was tough.

there were 70 in the class. i had newbies in front of me and i was worried that one of them would kick me in the face. but it's all good...still pretty...he is really laid back but you just wanna work hard for him (he's hot you see)...so i worked hard and as a consequence every time i rolled over in bed last night i got cramp in my instep...i hate it there...

strange day

i attended a funeral today, actually i sang in the choir. we did a fantastic job. i think the deceased would've been pleased. it was really nice singing with someone i last sang with 12 years ago. it was quite refreshing hearing his familiar voice in my ear.

however. before i got to the funeral a new student was placed in my class. he is very naughty. he's naughty because he's had a shit upbringing. now the behaviourists say we shouldn't blame their background (deficit thinking it's called) but it plays a part. he has been in the school approximately 2 weeks and my class is the third he has been placed in. apparently he thinks i'm 'nice' (but this is probably cos i've been nice to him, trying to build a rapport). but if he mentions it in public he's gonna ruin my street cred. so for today...so far so good. i had to leave after morning interval so he only had an hour and a half in my class and i didn't ask him to write anything. i now have three students with that name so that means two things. when i say that name sharply three people spring to attention and when i say that name nicely three people answer. it is very confusing. what i want to know is what was in the water 11-12 years ago to make this name so popular. personally i hate it. this may have something to do with the fact that almost every student i have met with this name is a complete shit (including my step-nephew).

and here's my segue. teachers can almost never find a name they like for their offspring. there are a few i would never call children. and the weird thing is they start with a j.

the next thing i missed out on is that one of my 11 year old year 7s brought bourbon to school. he is one of the boys mentioned above with the name that i have three of. i wasn't there to snap him with it.

and here's today's ironical moment (yes it's a word, again cos i said so). i had a resource teacher of learning and behaviour (RTLB) doing some observations on the third child with that name. he was absolutely fine despite me sitting new naughty student next to him. but bourbon-bringer was an absolute shit. he was playing up for the RTLB and performing. i have some very immature boys in my class this year. funnily enough the two main culprits' names start with that j letter. bloody j. my least favourite letter of the alphabet. no offense to good people whose names start with a j, like jesus for instance.

i also heard through the grapevine that new naughty boy got beaten up too. i picked a very interesting day to have off.

update on a student from last year. pretty sure i mentioned the students of mine that spent the day in the carpark in a previous blog. one of them came into our school on monday and pulled a gun on a teacher. it was a BB gun, but still. she's freaked out. and on another note. i have the half brother of the girl that spent the night in that carpark in my class this year. he's the type of student i really like. the likeable rogue. frustrates the hell out of me but there's something really endearing about them. i seem to always get them.

i get the 'good' students... apparently the deputy boss told a new teacher who was having difficulty with one of her students that it was a pity my class was full cos i'd sort him out. how bout that cred. seems my class isn't full cos they placed a new student with me. i'm up to 33. but that's cos i may be losing one next week...

we'll wait and see.