Well...

Hey everyone! Guess what!

I GOT THE JOB!!!

I will be teaching Year 8, 9 and 10 English, Year 9 Christian Education and two Sport classes at the very same Secondary School that I went to myself! I'M RAPT!

I went for the interview early last week, which went really well, and I was just starting to get a little sad at the thought that yet another interview was unsuccesful, when I received a phone message on my mobile from the head of the Senior School. I rang him back and he told me that my application was succesful! I'm going to be a real teacher! Continuity, setting work, essays, marking, professional discussion - it's all waiting for me! I'm looking forward to saying goodbye to glorified babysitting (emergency teaching). I begin on 20th May, which is quite soon, so I'll be in at my new school (old school?) in the intermediary to work out a smooth hand over of the classes (it'll be a mid-year swap) and to get a good grasp of where the kids are at and what I'll be doing with them. I'm a little scared of beginning full time work, and of having the responsibility for all of these classes, but I know that I learn best through experience (being thrown in the deep end). I'll thrash around for a bit, but I'll quickly learn to stay afloat, and then after a bit I'll be powering through.

Thankyou all for your support and encouragement - it has meant the world to me :)

Big Mumps, Small Notices

I was driving through a roundabout today, and I noticed something that made me smile on the inside.

Someone had walked into the middle of this big, busy roundabout, and planted an upright 'Big M' (a flavoured milk drink carton, for you yanks) to the left hand side.
It sat with the 'M' peering slightly above the lush green grass. It was deliberate placement.

I wondered whether it was meant as an act of littering. Probably. But for me at that moment, I actually found something very aesthetically pleasing about it. I'm not quite sure I can put my finger on exactly what it was.

And that got me thinking. Because I'm appreciating that milk carton put in that spot, just for its aesthetics, does that make it art? Must art have a deeper meaning? Or can art be justified simply because it looks/sounds/feels/tastes/smells appealing?

My vote is a yes, and I am appreciative of the unintentional (?) artist that put a smile on my inside this afternoon.

The sight was even more ironic, because in the middle of this roundabout is a council-commissioned 'official' art piece that looks like a big, ridiculous green ribbon, or "apple peel" (for those who know it). The Big M was better :)

Confused...

Something that really makes me laugh (and confuses the heck out of me) is the way people get really annoyed at the police for deploying speed cameras, saying that the police are 'revenue raising'.

Am I missing something here? People drive cars, right? And they can drive their cars at varying speeds... some cars can go really fast, some cars can't go so fast (like trucks, etc.). Also, depending on how fast you are driving, you have a varying possibility that you might have an accident. People who drive faster are more likely to have an accident (a generalisation of course), and most definately do more damage to whatever they hit (and themselves) when they do have an accident. Therefore, instead of people flying around the streets smashing into things all the time and killing lots of people, we have speed limits. So that people abide by these limits, there is a reasonable penalty for breaking them. If you don't break them, you don't get a penalty.

Here comes the clincher...

Therefore, if you get a speeding ticket IT'S YOUR OWN DAMN FAULT!!! For goodness' sake! If you don't want a fine, DON'T SPEED!!! Why are people so bleeding STUPID?!?! AARRGGHHH!!!!

On a funnier note, click here.

A-sumptuous! Look it up!

Hey, I'm here. I really am. And posting. Just watch me go.

"I'm going this way!"

Oh, and I love you all like a collective brother :) Except my wife, whom I love like a collective wife. Collectively. I don't collect them though. Wives I mean.

I have some news to tell soon, but for now I shall leave you with Dboy's...

PROBLEM FOR THE DAY

If one ferret gave birth, and the other ferret in town didn't, then what would be the likely health status of the child ferret if both of these ferrets were the original parents?

Winner gets a big kiss.

Pics From The Vault

Me manning a Vietnamese War artillery... in Vietnam... during the war... just kidding.

A guy with his head up another guy's butt.

Peebody and I on his last birthday.

My brother and me being idiots.