in_stead: (coffee)
Have spent most of the day sitting in my favourite, wireless enabled coffee shop with the BFF and laptops. I got a bit of work done and, in between, completely overhauled my icon collection. Then, just when I thought I was done, the BFF bought me paid time and now I have 41 more icon slots to fill.

I have my work cut out for me, oh yes.
in_stead: (morning after king)
First day of a new placement. More specifically, my last placement. If I manage not to screw up too monumentally in the next month, I'll be a qualified teacher by May.

All the milk went bad over the weekend. Is that a bad sign? Didn't medieval folks consider the milk going bad a sign of witchcraft and other unpleasantnesses?

Thank heavens there was a little cream for coffee.

omg coffee.
in_stead: (rain on the thames)
Things that I love:
  • [livejournal.com profile] mcee
  • Ottawa
  • reading porn working on my special education in Kenya essay at the coffeeshop
  • my bike
  • being done exams
  • teaching
  • planning weekend roadtrips

It is so very, very, very good to be home.
in_stead: (text)
This post was going to be a rant about group work, particularly as pertains to anti-intellectual, lazy, and truculant groups.

I have erased that.

Instead, I would like to mention that I am going to the gym this morning and looking forward to that. Then, of course, I will be doing all the work for a four-person group on a presentation happening tomorrow, but let's focus on the fun going to the gym bit.

As well, I have coffee and it is good.
in_stead: (morning after king)
*frets over what to wear*

*frets over getting the necessary things done before the interview*

*frets about the questions likely to be asked at the interview*

*frets generally*

*frets specifically*

*has coffee*
in_stead: (morning after king)
Accidentally just killed a very nice post, damnit. In short form:


  • Having difficulty transitioning back to studenthood after teaching kids who were facing drought and famine and other overwhelming issues. To be sitting in a classroom in Canada and talking about petty little things like being interrupted by the P.A. system while teaching is surreal.

  • Am missing my students in Kenya dreadfully.

  • I, along with a number of other people who went on the trip, was interviewed by an Ontario magazine on teachers and education about the experience. I think I did well -- I sounded intelligent to my own ears, anyway. Article is due out in the June or July issue.

  • I have coffee. I really like coffee.

  • I have a lot of school things due next week. Mind you, I only have three weeks of classes left, plus exams, then one more session of practice teaching before I am a qualified teacher. My goodness, the time has flown!

in_stead: (morning after king)
*flail*

*flounder*

*facemashes wall*

ahyesmorning.coffeewhereomg.
in_stead: (Default)
Good morning. I have had only 5.5 hours of sleep. Also, we broke our coffee pot yesterday and there is no coffee for me. Also, I have a presentation today.

Today's word of the day from Dictionary.com is "tmesis" -- the seperation of parts of a compound word for either humour or effect. To wit: "abso-fucking-lutely" or "in two words -- im possible!"

Today's word of the day from OED is "toddle" -- to play or toy with, to walk with unsteady steps, to walk leasurely. Its origins are northern English and Scottish and first appeared in writing in the early 1500s.
in_stead: (morning after king)
Ack. Coffee. Then gym. Then doing things, liek. For school. Pants. Hi!
in_stead: (morning after king)
*sporfles coffee out my nose*

In other news, bitchcakes (to borrow a phrase), I can't seem to find my glasses. I fell asleep with them on out on the couch. When I woke up this morning in my bed (I don't understand how these things happen and mostly I've learned not to question), they were no where to be found.

Um.

eta: Found them! They were under the bed. Can't imagine why I didn't look there first, really. Such an obvious place!
in_stead: (morning after king)
Aaaaaaaah, face, early, morning, WHY?!

*stumbles about*

*gropes for coffee*

In other news, this icon is particularly appropriate. While I don't exactly remember what I was dreaming just before I woke up, I do remember that Neil Gaiman was there, at least briefly. This confirms my theory that he not only wrote, but is Sandman.
in_stead: (morning after king)
I've really fallen out of the habit of posting over at [livejournal.com profile] a_drive, which is something I'm going to try and change. I've also, over the past year, almost entirely stopped writing (uh...160+ page thesis aside). In an effort to do something about that as well, I've signed up for [livejournal.com profile] alphabetdrabble.

Also, [livejournal.com profile] mcee made me.

In other news, I have finished my two weeks of practice teaching and am back in my own classes for the next three weeks before heading out for another chunk of time to the school. I miss the kids in my class already, but it's going to be nice to see my section again, not to mention to have a chance to just sit at the back of the class and be mellow rather than having to stand at the front of the class and perform.

Also, my mother has brought me coffee.

HI COFFEE HI! MORNING! HI! COFFEE!
in_stead: (morning after king)
In retrospect getting a huge cup of coffee at 7pm might not have been the smartest thing I have ever done. However, I was on my way to a meeting for a group work school project and I thought I was going to die I was so tired and at the time coffee seemed like a good idea. I didn't want my group-mates to think that I am stupid or a non-contributor to the collective efforts. I needed a pick me up perky making cup of magic.

Only now I can't sleep.

And tomorrow I'm going to look like Mr. Gaiman in my icon there when I have to go in early for school.

On the other hand, tomorrow in art we're going to PAINT! The teacher told us to bring SMOCKS! Do you know how long it's been since I needed a smock for school? History just isn't that messy.

In other news, have decided I miss my BFF and, although it's all very well and good to have a vacation, enough is enough and she needs to come home from Frenchland now, before she forgets how to talk right.




smock!
in_stead: (morning after king)
Wednesday Morning
(a brief vignette)


me: *wakes up*
me: *stumbles into wall*
me: *knocks over the little tub of push pins sitting on my bedside table*
me: *makes wounded wookie noises*
my mother: Good morning, darling. I brought you coffee.
my mother: *hands me the coffee*
me: *makes grateful wookie noises*

In other news, today I have the aforementioned real class with the role playing/drama loving professor, Math, and History. Of the three? I'm looking forward to Math the most and History the least.

It's like a very strange, inverted version of the rest of my life up until now.

*cue Twighlight Zone theme song*
in_stead: (morning after king)
But what if the other kids pick on me and the professors pick on me and nobody likes me? What if I pick an outfit out that isn't cool and everybody makes fun of me? What if I trip and fall and when I stand up all my clothes have fallen off and I'm in front of everybody and they all laugh? What if --

Ooooh, coffee.

Good morning, loves.
in_stead: (morning after king)
Kevin Warwick, professor of Cybernetics at Reading University, UK, led a study which found that after a cup of coffee people’s IQ went up by an average of three points. The effects of the increase in IQ were short-term.
- bridgehead.ca

That's certainly been my experience, anyway.

*guzzles coffee*
in_stead: (morning after king)
I H8 PPLE OMG.

ESPECiALLY THE ONES SINGING BILINGUAL "OH CANADA" UnDER MY WINDOW UNTIL ALL HOUrS.

CANADA DAY WAS YESTERDAY, WANKERS. LET IT ALONE.

*facemashes the coffee*
in_stead: (morning after king)
Last night I dreamed I moved into Apsley House. [livejournal.com profile] lazlet and [livejournal.com profile] blythely came over while I was unpacking and trying to figure out where to put my things so that they wouldn't disrupt the careful museum displays. We had coffee at the table around which the Waterloo Banquets were held.

I was rather disappointed to wake up in my very own apartment, nice though it is.

And I am a huge geek.

In other news, GAH, morning, coffee, face, nnnasgkn.
in_stead: (morning after king)
It's too hot for coffee. What kind of evil weather is this?
in_stead: (morning after king)
The past couple of days have proven nothing so much as that it is far, far, far too hot to get any work done in my apartment. I am, therefore, taking advantage of Chapters' new open at 8am every day of the week omg please don't notice we close at 10pm hours and going to work in the air conditioned comfort of their big, slouchy armchairs. As an added bonus, the armchairs come with a Starbucks located conveniently close to hand. Also located conveniently close to hand will be [livejournal.com profile] mcee, who agrees with me that the weather is unbearable and that Chapters deserves to have their ac blatantly stolen because 10pm is at least an hour too early to close.

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