Okay...so I promised to put the photos up for the last four days as soon as I got home. Or something like that. Well...I'm going to do that tomorrow, because I'm not awake enough to do it right now. That's because I travelled home from Dubbo today, where I have been staying with friends and seeing the sights, as I always do. As well as spending money...because I always do my shopping in Dubbo. Just ask one of the friends I stayed with.
Anyway, because I do touch-up work to the photos sometimes...and that takes time...you'll have to wait a moment...or a day. And I missed a day up there. I was going to take a photo, and just forgot, so that's two days so far that I've missed. Oh well. Such is life.
Take it easy, and I hope - if you're on holidays, or ending your holidays - you're relaxing and having fun.
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Saturday, January 14, 2012
Sunday, November 28, 2010
A Social Time is Approaching...
So it's come to the 'social/busy' time of the year...if you can call it that.
Christmas. People start planning parties, trips away, get togethers, and any other form of mingling they can think of for this time of the year. Don't get me wrong. I enjoy going out and socialising. It's great. It's just going to be busy from here on in with getting things done - no doubt we can all feel that way.
Take - for example - what I have coming up:
1. Go to a retirement party for my Head Teacher this Thursday, 2nd December.
2. Go see Muse on the 10th December.
3. Write my Prac Student's report by the 10th December...lucky I've been writing hints and tips down each lesson, like you should...
4. Go to the Street Christmas Party on the 11th December, or is that the 4th?
5. Go see U2 on the 13th December.
6. Make 3, if not 4, Christmas Cakes by the 15 December - and I haven't even got the ingredients yet for them...
7. Help get a box of goodies together for people in need.
8. Go to the work Christmas Party on the 16th December.
9. Get three assignments done for my 'Rome' unit before the 23rd December. (Hmmm...better get stuck into that tomorrow.... Chapter/whole book critiques...and I'm not good at critiquing...)
10. Have a family Christmas on Christmas Day, as well as whenever my brother, his wife and their two children can join us - be it Christmas Day, Boxing Day, or some other time...
11. Leave for Rome on the 30th December.
12. Have three books read for 'Rome' unit before heading off to Rome....well that's just not going to happen: I'm not that quick a reader...
Okay, so the list turned into something more than the socialising side of life, but it shows that December does get busy. The Rome trip is to do with University, which is the 'Rome' unit I talk about.
Anyone just as busy? I'm sure there are lots of you out there.
Where's that Procrastinator's Diary when you need it?
Christmas. People start planning parties, trips away, get togethers, and any other form of mingling they can think of for this time of the year. Don't get me wrong. I enjoy going out and socialising. It's great. It's just going to be busy from here on in with getting things done - no doubt we can all feel that way.
Take - for example - what I have coming up:
1. Go to a retirement party for my Head Teacher this Thursday, 2nd December.
2. Go see Muse on the 10th December.
3. Write my Prac Student's report by the 10th December...lucky I've been writing hints and tips down each lesson, like you should...
4. Go to the Street Christmas Party on the 11th December, or is that the 4th?
5. Go see U2 on the 13th December.
6. Make 3, if not 4, Christmas Cakes by the 15 December - and I haven't even got the ingredients yet for them...
7. Help get a box of goodies together for people in need.
8. Go to the work Christmas Party on the 16th December.
9. Get three assignments done for my 'Rome' unit before the 23rd December. (Hmmm...better get stuck into that tomorrow.... Chapter/whole book critiques...and I'm not good at critiquing...)
10. Have a family Christmas on Christmas Day, as well as whenever my brother, his wife and their two children can join us - be it Christmas Day, Boxing Day, or some other time...
11. Leave for Rome on the 30th December.
12. Have three books read for 'Rome' unit before heading off to Rome....well that's just not going to happen: I'm not that quick a reader...
Okay, so the list turned into something more than the socialising side of life, but it shows that December does get busy. The Rome trip is to do with University, which is the 'Rome' unit I talk about.
Anyone just as busy? I'm sure there are lots of you out there.
Where's that Procrastinator's Diary when you need it?
Monday, October 25, 2010
Procrastination
Procrastination is a wonderful thing. We all do it, whether we admit to it or not. Some are 'better' at it than others, if procrastinating is a thing to be good at. Many teachers are not procrastinators - they are quite efficient and wonderful at getting a job done at the right time, or in the right amount of time. Others, though, need a helping hand - such as me.
Marking is my downfall. If I can dodge marking until the very last minute, I will. I hate it. It is the bane of my teaching existance. But, next year...I'm going to turn over a new leaf. Hmmm...hang on...I've heard that one before. Hmmm...how to make it actually occur, I hear myself ask. That is where this might actually help.
I've never actually been that good at using a diary. I keep forgetting to write in them. I start at the beginning of the year, and then just lose track, and forget about it, until I think "Well, it's not worth doing it again..." or "Where is that diary?" So, the problem is actually using this diary correctly.
That is where it would have been helpful if I'd actually taken photos of the inside.
They give you a week/two weeks/month ahead planner on the left-hand side of the double open page. They have the names of 'Needs to be done NOW', 'Can be put off for a while', 'Don't really need to think about it for a long while' - that kind of thing (names are not exact because I can't remember them properly). On the other side they have the normal 'What's on each day of the week' kind of layout. What's part of the gag, though, is that they have a 'doodle' section on the right-hand side of the double page, well as funny titles for each section of the double page. It makes the diary more appealing for those of us out there who are slightly 'Diary-phobic' - and can't plan to save our lives!
Hmmm....perhaps I should have got one of these for this year, then I could have planned my Girls Night In better - that is coming up this Saturday night.
*N.B. - Saw this outside BigW, at the calender stall, Westfield Miranda.
Marking is my downfall. If I can dodge marking until the very last minute, I will. I hate it. It is the bane of my teaching existance. But, next year...I'm going to turn over a new leaf. Hmmm...hang on...I've heard that one before. Hmmm...how to make it actually occur, I hear myself ask. That is where this might actually help.
I've never actually been that good at using a diary. I keep forgetting to write in them. I start at the beginning of the year, and then just lose track, and forget about it, until I think "Well, it's not worth doing it again..." or "Where is that diary?" So, the problem is actually using this diary correctly.
That is where it would have been helpful if I'd actually taken photos of the inside.
They give you a week/two weeks/month ahead planner on the left-hand side of the double open page. They have the names of 'Needs to be done NOW', 'Can be put off for a while', 'Don't really need to think about it for a long while' - that kind of thing (names are not exact because I can't remember them properly). On the other side they have the normal 'What's on each day of the week' kind of layout. What's part of the gag, though, is that they have a 'doodle' section on the right-hand side of the double page, well as funny titles for each section of the double page. It makes the diary more appealing for those of us out there who are slightly 'Diary-phobic' - and can't plan to save our lives!
Hmmm....perhaps I should have got one of these for this year, then I could have planned my Girls Night In better - that is coming up this Saturday night.
*N.B. - Saw this outside BigW, at the calender stall, Westfield Miranda.
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