eva (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} faerycake) wrote,@ 2009-03-03 21:25:00 |
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I've had a bit of a militant regime recently, basically to fit in teaching, my own research and - well - living in a more basic sense (in terms of cooking, eating, sleeping etc).
Exciting things this week include:
- My Mum getting to the final (top 5) of the Times children's book competition with a novel she wrote (she got ace feedback from authors she likes and stuff, which was amaaaazing for her - I'm really proud).
- A's 12th Birthday, yay! It was ace, we went on a teenage shopping trip and baked raspberry blackout cake. However, she also turned into a teenager overnight and started taking the piss out of us. She informed me that she saw a condom in our room and while it was 'disgusting' (n.b. it was still in the packet so it couldn't have been that disgusting) she'd still told all her friends about it at school. Arg.
- Going to Skegness. It doesn't sound that happy (as soon as the bus arrived it started pissing it down). But we saw a whole array of delights when we were there, including sticks of rock that designed to look like genetalia of all shapes, sizes and genders, and shops that sold crossbows and throwing knives (as well as the usual postcards and cinder toffee). The sea was grey, the chips were greasy, the arcades were expensive, the tequila was astringent... all in all an ace day. Our friend had hired a bus so a load of us went, which made it fun. We left at 9am and a couple of people had already had a bottle of wine between them by the time we arrived.
- Teaching being really enjoyable. I hope I'm doing the students justice.
- Getting to levels of focus in terms of work that make me feel, I dunno, OK about myself I suppose.
- The best book group book choice in ages! One Hundred Years of Solitude. It wasmissanthropii's choice and I was naughty and had already read it... but I'm glad we did it anyway, as it's a lovely book.
oh, bollocks, I never post and when I do it's all tldr. Maybe I should post more regularly. Alas, I cannot, I'm too busy making giant mind maps relating Pierre Bourdieu to Actor-Network Theory.
Exciting things this week include:
- My Mum getting to the final (top 5) of the Times children's book competition with a novel she wrote (she got ace feedback from authors she likes and stuff, which was amaaaazing for her - I'm really proud).
- A's 12th Birthday, yay! It was ace, we went on a teenage shopping trip and baked raspberry blackout cake. However, she also turned into a teenager overnight and started taking the piss out of us. She informed me that she saw a condom in our room and while it was 'disgusting' (n.b. it was still in the packet so it couldn't have been that disgusting) she'd still told all her friends about it at school. Arg.
- Going to Skegness. It doesn't sound that happy (as soon as the bus arrived it started pissing it down). But we saw a whole array of delights when we were there, including sticks of rock that designed to look like genetalia of all shapes, sizes and genders, and shops that sold crossbows and throwing knives (as well as the usual postcards and cinder toffee). The sea was grey, the chips were greasy, the arcades were expensive, the tequila was astringent... all in all an ace day. Our friend had hired a bus so a load of us went, which made it fun. We left at 9am and a couple of people had already had a bottle of wine between them by the time we arrived.
- Teaching being really enjoyable. I hope I'm doing the students justice.
- Getting to levels of focus in terms of work that make me feel, I dunno, OK about myself I suppose.
- The best book group book choice in ages! One Hundred Years of Solitude. It was
missanthropii's choice and I was naughty and had already read it... but I'm glad we did it anyway, as it's a lovely book.oh, bollocks, I never post and when I do it's all tldr. Maybe I should post more regularly. Alas, I cannot, I'm too busy making giant mind maps relating Pierre Bourdieu to Actor-Network Theory.
