It’s been a productive few days, but it feels like I haven’t actually got anywhere.
I’ve pretty much finished my desk: a few finishing touches and it’ll be done. I have started to move things about in my room but I haven’t finished. I’ve done quite a few other jobs too as I went and left [...]
Category Archives: work
Going Nowhere
Historical in Context
You might, if you read my blog regularly, have been wondering what I have been doing recently. I haven’t posted for a while, so as you might guess, that answer to your question is "not much".
I haven’t been doing nothing, however. My desk is slowly taking shape, after many trials with the electric jigsaw (the [...]
The Price of Experience
Another day, another day without a dollar. I had an interview for a job as a Post-16 Tutor at Gosforth High School. I say "interview", there was a challenging ‘carousel’ of activities. Amongst those activities was to present a twenty minute tutorial on revision techniques, have an interview in front of existing post-16 tutors, answer [...]
Chop Chop
I had my hair cut today. It wasn’t something I planned, so I am a little in shock now. This morning I had what appeared to be black hair: the stubborn locks that remained since dying it in December covering what lied beneath. It was also rather long, gathering at the base of my neck [...]
All Over
Well the exams have passed. Now it’s a waiting game for the results. It wasn’t a great exam. Everything I had studied on Monday had pretty much vanished from my short term memory… perhaps occupied by recent events. I relied on my long term memory which thankfully wasn’t too shabby as usual, so I should [...]
Back With A Vengeance
I have returned — I have fixed the problem I was having, which seemed more to do with my host than WordPress itself. A lot has happened since my last post.
I’ve been told that I have been rejected a place on the PGCE course, to my extreme annoyance. It seems the reason for declining my [...]
Job Interview, Part 2
Applying for a place on a PGCE course isn’t as simple as just completing an application form then popping in for an interview, as I found out this week. The application process is controlled by an arm of UCAS, the university admissions service. As such, it costs £5 just to enquire. Furthermore, any correspondence you [...]
Job Interview, Part One
I got up just before 6 am and was out of the house for just after seven. This was to be the start of 800 miles of travel today, for a job interview in Swindon. It never happened.
I mentioned before about the BROD. If I see rabbits on my journey — those cute and cuddly [...]
For Want Of A Better Post
Things aren’t going well for me at the moment. It’s an odd feeling to have, since for the most part I can feel lucky the ways things have turned out. Right now, Newcastle United are staring up the nostrils of a double-barrelled shotgun; I have no idea how I’m going to earn my daily loaf; [...]