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Three things make a post
Jun. 18th, 2013 09:48 pm1. I have a shiny new layout! (On LJ, anyway... My DW desperately needs fixing up.) I went through four other ones before settling on this one. It’s a big change from my last one, but there’s still plenty of colour and I don’t feel like a shill for Nike, which is nice. Pklus I loved the unity of theme with that layout and my long-time default icon, but I do actually have a super-pretty Lokifan icon waiting in the wings which goes with this new layout nicely. Excite!
(Sorry, I care too much about layouts. But it’s pretty! And I get to have a subtitle again!)
2. The family is here! The first 48 hours were great, then there was a somewhat disastrous conversation about my future and the next day I failed HEAVILY. Couldn’t bring myself to go and meet them. Guilt guilt guilt. So much guilt, in fact, I didn’t log on to Skype to talk to my friends that day even though I really wanted to because then I’d have to admit why I felt like crap. The family went to Hanoi that day, and they’re back on Thursday. On Friday we leave to spend EIGHT DAYS TOGETHER in Cambodia. Pray for me.
3. I had my six-months observation at work today. It did not go brilliantly. I have the feedback from that on Thursday, plus my six-months professional development interview, and then I have to teach a three-hour class and then go and see my family for the first time since I flaked on them. THURSDAYS SUCK.
3a. Although the observed-by-my-boss portion of the class didn’t go fantastically, in the last forty-five minutes my students shared some watercolours and got a Plaster-of-Paris duck or crocodile each to paint. And two of them gave me their finished statues :D :D :D Two more didn’t want theirs, so me and Ngoc, the TA, took two home each. I took the two crocodiles, who are now sitting on my shelf getting to know the crocodile I painted myself with another class yesterday.
(Sorry, I care too much about layouts. But it’s pretty! And I get to have a subtitle again!)
2. The family is here! The first 48 hours were great, then there was a somewhat disastrous conversation about my future and the next day I failed HEAVILY. Couldn’t bring myself to go and meet them. Guilt guilt guilt. So much guilt, in fact, I didn’t log on to Skype to talk to my friends that day even though I really wanted to because then I’d have to admit why I felt like crap. The family went to Hanoi that day, and they’re back on Thursday. On Friday we leave to spend EIGHT DAYS TOGETHER in Cambodia. Pray for me.
3. I had my six-months observation at work today. It did not go brilliantly. I have the feedback from that on Thursday, plus my six-months professional development interview, and then I have to teach a three-hour class and then go and see my family for the first time since I flaked on them. THURSDAYS SUCK.
3a. Although the observed-by-my-boss portion of the class didn’t go fantastically, in the last forty-five minutes my students shared some watercolours and got a Plaster-of-Paris duck or crocodile each to paint. And two of them gave me their finished statues :D :D :D Two more didn’t want theirs, so me and Ngoc, the TA, took two home each. I took the two crocodiles, who are now sitting on my shelf getting to know the crocodile I painted myself with another class yesterday.
