fitness and liquorice whips

Evening all...

Hope you are all well in your various global positions. I am feeling virtuos this evening.

I will come to the hieght of my virtuousness later, as i fell i should say a little about my psat few days.

Well. This week i have been VERY CROSS and VERY HAPPY! CROSS first... lets get it out of the way... On thursday I went into work with a good attitude and was in a very good mood by the time i arrived. This was cut short by people moaning in the staffroom before school and then again at lunch by a member of staff slagging off one of my children (who i quite like even tho he's a behaviour problem). Afternoon was slightly redeemed by My genius topic afternoon. As PArt of Topic, we are looking at pictures of objects with meaning. SO we looked at some still life painting and photos, discussing how it made us feel and why the artist had chosen these objects... i culminated in this picture.:

I like this as it is a continuous line drawing. The artist never lifted the pen. I love drawing like this an proceeded to get my kid to draw an object in this style. After a while i did my favourite 'silly' acitvity... get a pen... get paper... get a partner... look directly into partners eyes and try and continuous line draw partner withour taking pen off paper OR looking at drawing. Its SOOOOO funny!! the kids were dead good and critically commented on both the pros and cons of the process and each others drawings.

Later that day my geek staus emerged. Senior management have been devising a new maths assessment and a colleague had produed a table to record results in... together we realised that it would actually be easier to do an Excel spreadsheet, that way it would calculate reprts and percentage acheivement automatically. I volunteered to have alook at the possibility. I spent 2 hours when i got back from school, creating said excel spreadsheet. and very prod of it i am!!

Friday was good, as i decided I couldn't be arsed with Gymnastics for 2 hours, and so decided to set up a tricky obstacle course and sent them off in threes (one blind fold) to guide each other round. The less said about this idea the better... however, i shall tag it with two words... Good and Noisy!! After school, we had friday club... love this club... much like the programme teachers, we all head for a drink to the local on a friday after school. This week was good as russell, quinny and Gemmma all came for a drink too. I got vey nostalgic in my head and went very quiet... tho i don;t think it was noticed!!

My friday night pizza, wine and DVD contiued with MEat feast ... 2 glasses of red wine... 'Be kind rewind' dvd and by 8:30 (half way thru the film) asleep time on the sofa!! i'm def getting old!

Today I decided to test run a cycle to work. I'm planning on being organised and not taking any work home, so i can cycle to and from work. Today was a test run to make sure it wasn't horrific! OH MY GOD i loved it!! I even took photos along the way!

This is during my journey on the greenway. About 70-80% of the whole route to work is on greenways like this, through woods and fields. Its made up of 3 greenways and i only have to be near any buildings or cars for 5 mins max!! woo hoo!!


This is the wreck of the bike i own. TOok it to wheelspin bikes to see if they though it was worth repairing ( i cleaned and serviced it tot he bvest of my ability). they were very impressed i'd taken such good care of it! This was a pleasure short lived, because the guy next to me at the desk stopped talking, looked at me and then continued his conversation about £2000 replacement shocks for his bike. Now I don;t have anything against improving bikes, and given unlimited money i would happily chuck my hunk of junk and buy a good road bike, but as i have no money and this joy of a bike i make do. i more objected to his look... i can;t help it i have a skip bike?!

Anyway, cycle was really good. The sunshine probably made it better, but still. I loved it. At many points during the journey i grinned like a small child due to the greatness of being active, but also at having my faith restored in humanity... i've never seen so many families out together since i was little!! Families walking dogs, families out for a walk, families on bikes! I was so happy and said hello to everyone, much to thier surprise!!!

This evening i have been thinking about my birthday celebrations... 4 months is not a lot of time so i need to start thinking hard. looked into canal boats and events happening in January... my proudest moment was putting 'pirate party january 2009' into google! :)

I leave you with a question....

When we were playing with magnets in class this week one of my children discoverd that the N pole was stronger on mist of the bar bagnets than the S pole

>>> My question: is this because we in the UK are nearer magnetic north?!<<<<<

INTI xxxxx

My monday Geekfest

I feel i should blog, as i have had a rather geeky day.

Geekattack 1: I have compiled an excel spreadsheet of all the cameras and memory cards in school
Geekattack 2: I have realised i am very excited by doing maths with my very intelligent year 6 top set, as we generally just test out mathematical statements, and have races to see who can divide 4 digit numbers quickest.
Geekattack 3: I had a little rush of excitement tonight when i realised i had no work to do, and could watch QI, then mastermind, then universty challenge, then cookery then Amazon with bruce Parry all back to back.
Geekattack 4: Upon reading the Pickles blog update yesterday, I got out starwars and found the scene that is filmed at Tikal. Then googled it, then let out a little woo hoo when i discovered there is such a thing called a Wookieepedia !!!

Ok I feel this is far more than i should actually reveal about my secret life. I'm going to stop now and go make myself a 'SPICE TEA'

BYE!!

INTI xx

Spiced tea and dancing boys

Hello again!

Yup so it would appear that saturdays in my life are filled with much that is blog worthy.

So earlier today I made the most amazing bacon sandwich which i feel is definately worth describing. I have discovered that it is possible to buy mini portabella mushrooms so i sliced these using my 'worlds sharpest surgical steel knife' into perfect thickness slices and grilled these along with some danish bacon, meanwhile I cut two doorstep slices from a still warm fresh baked white loaf, and fried a perfectly circular free range egg. Sandwich assembled I carefully sliced it with the other large 'worlds sharpest surgical steel knife' so that the egg ran down the middle!!!! Man i'm hungry again now!!! Sorry I realise this is slightly weird to tell you how i made a bacon sandwich, but it was the first proper one i've had since i got back to the UK!

Secondly, I feel i may have ingested substances i'm not supposed to. About a year and a half ago, my parents went to Sri Lanka and brought me back some presents. Amoung these presents was a small clear plastic bag containing herbs and mixed brown powder marked 'SPICED TEA'.
This moring I finally decided to try some of this. I opened the packet and was hit with a familliar smell... Weed! er... ok, so thinking i was just a bit over tired, I made tea. after 2 minutes the liquid in my cup looked like treacle and still smelled like weed! upon tasting the brown liquid it tasted exactly as it smelled! I ahve now consumed the whole cup and seem to be suffering no ill effects, although I am taking to show policeman brother later... (wait... maybe this isn't such a good idea, I ent getting charged wiv possesion guv!)

ALSO! after much searching I have got closer to finding apicture or video of dancing peruvian boy on BBC's Amazon. Have found 3 pictures of note so far and a video. Pictures and displayed below:
He is three-year-old Icka, named proudly after the Real Madrid goalkeeper. He was the son of the first family Bruce stayed with on his journey.

He was ace in all the bits he was in and was, true to all peruvian children we met in south america, old beyond his years, almost a mini man!!

This was shortly after aforementioned dancing (which I still haven't found a video for... grrr.) He aparently loved bruce and having read the blogs that the whole team of the program did while filming, it would appear he was a bit of a star and was obsessed with his reflection in the camera lenses!

I have found a video of him, but can only work out how to send a link to the blog that its in so if you wanna see why he's so ace go HERE, and while you're at it have a play around the site... its dead good, and the program is brilliant. god bless the BBC! (I feel i have to say this as i'm not too sure where I stand legally on posting photos from the site!! Sorry BBC!)


Other than that My saturday continues with sleeepy happiness as it is finally sunny, and I have been able to sit on my patio drinking potent tea and eating homemade apple and ginger cake. does life get any better!! woo hoo!!

INTI xxx

Pirate day!

Yesterday was international talk like a pirate day (uk site here)!! Hurrah!! However... being that my week was so awful.. I completely forgot about it till I woke up this morning BOOO!! Shame really as it means a day where i can legitimately 'be' a pirate. Grr... Never mind! I shall make up for this by being a pirate all day today. I'd like to take this oportunity to state that i do not condone modern day piratical events. I have read about a few recently that have made me shake my head in a disaproving manner. I only condone dressing up like johnny Depp and getting drunk and sailing around in the sunshine!!

Piratical adventures today... i fully aim to wear my pirate beads, scarf and linen shirt and head out to have fun. Later i'm going to see ocean colour scene, so feel drinking will be done so i shall have some dark rum and toast pirates with a hearty Yarr. Does this sufice?! Hope so.

Yesterday was friday, and friday at school means one thing to me this year. 2 solid hours of PE!! :) and :( 2 hours of PE is hard work, and for this term, my post is gymnastics in the hall. ugh! The way we have planned it is that the 3 teachers in the year group station themselves in 3 different areas and each of the 3 classes move round the 3 areas every 40 minutes. the three activites till half term are gymnastics, netball, and cross contry running! I drew the short straw and got gynastics till half term. grr. never mind... i get first choice next time!! hahha

Ok so let me set the scene for gymnastics primary school style. We have an old wooden climbing frame style bars that wheel out from one wall, 3 ropes hanging from the ceiling, that pull out and lock on a pulley system (see... primary school pe is coming back to you with avengenceright!! ) 3 padded tables of varying height and an old wooden vault. I skillfully place these around the room. set the kids a challenge for each peice of equipment and let them have 10 mins per activity! mainly carnage reigns... but in amongst this carnage little star gymnasts present themselves. my main horror so far is that a good 20%of kids are too scared to climb above thier shoulder height, some children can't even climb onto the wooden vault with help, and only 7 children in the whole year group (76children) can climb up a rope, and only one of them is a girl!

What has happened to the kids of today?! Do they not climb trees anymore!?! it upsets me greatly. In fact one observation about who can climb the rope is that its generally the kids who are introuble in and out of school and tend to get incvolved in dodgy (ie illeagal) activities who are able to climb! make from this what you will!

After school us weary teacher converge for a sneaky beverage at a public house down the road, and this week was no exception. however this week wa comedy. Walked in :
ME: "Pint of Guinness please"
BAR LADY:"no draught guinness. only bottles"
ME: "Er...ok, yep that ok" While looking slightly confused as i'd had it the week before, "Oh and A rum and coke"(not for me)
BAR LADY: "We don't have any rum"
ME: "what?
BAR LADY: we don't do rum.
ME (after consultation with colleague): Double jack daniels and a splash of lemonade with ice
BAR LADY: We don't do ice
ME (again wanting to scream WHAT?!) : really... er ok no problem.
Drinks appear on bar, i pay and sit down with others. five minutes passes
BAR OWNER (a big bothered looking man): I'm afraid you'll have to leave. we have to close.

An there it was... no explanation, no time to finish drinks.... we had to leave, so i gathered up my guiness, which i poured back into the bottle and resealed, and left! madness!!! No one knew why.... maybe we had entered a parralell world that was about to collapse. who knows!!

Other news from yesterday: Last night i decided i wanted to watch Juno, I knew I'd like it, and so decided to buy it rather that rent or download it. OH MY GOD ITS GOOD!! Its easily now one of my favourite 3 fims ever! I got to the end and started watching it again. I'd like to share some quotes:
Leah: Yo Yo Yiggady Yo.
Juno MacGuff: I'm at suicide risk.
Leah: Juno?
Juno MacGuff: No, it's Morgan Freeman. Do you have any bones that need collecting?



Leah: It's probably just a food baby. Did you have a big lunch?
Juno MacGuff: No, this is not a food baby all right? I've taken like three pregnancy tests, and I'm forshizz up the spout.


Juno MacGuff: You should've gone to China, you know, 'cause I hear they give away babies like free iPods. You know, they pretty much just put them in those t-shirt guns and shoot them out at sporting events.


Ok Ok... will stop now. I laughed and cried the whole way through... I might even watch it again today!! tee hee!

So am off now to pirate myself up and re-aquaint myself with Ocean Colour Scene's backcatalogue. HOW EXCITING!!!

BYE!

Inti xx

black eyes and the family of Darren

Well hasn't it been a while! Just realised that my last blog talked about the world ending and then i disappeared from existence! probably not clever.

Well life in the UK continues to amuse in small amounts by life casually throwing me 'things' to deal with. As a true brit i shall begin with comments on the weather. Lately it has been grey. then it has rained. then it has been grey. then it has rained. but i'm sure anyone in the UK is not surprised by this!

School related gubbins

So school, oh how i love it. Updates first.

Pressurecooker (aka slightly agitated girl) has been forced into finding release valve, and is now fading into the background. This is mainly due to the fact that a by with ... er.... not sure how to be diplomatic and still keep my job...... a boy who has difficulty with the general state of being in a classroom as it is too busy for him to handle which often causes him to use various parts of his anatomy to become more closely aquainted with walls tables and windows, occasionally other children as well (usually with quite impressive force). This coupled with the other small boy in my class whom we shall name 'small' who also has similar aggressive problems, but is quite small and has to sit on a padded chair, ... all combines to make pressure cooker seem quite normal!! :) The only time i really notice her now is during topic on thursday where she gets over excited, as we are studying world war 2 and she did it in her previous school last year, and cannot wait to tell me and all the class every 5 seconds about all the facts she knows. I have developed a coping mechanisim for this... i pause, slowly turn my head to face where pressurecooker girl is nearly falling out of her seat with excitement at something she feels is worthy of interupting me talking about, sigh and say sweetly, "yes *pressurecooker*, what would you like to add?" whereupon she tells me some random unrelate fact, and follows it with a face that is uncannily reminicent of les dawson when he dressed up in sketches as a woman.

Earlier this week, I had a truly momentus day almost as good as last years daily efforts carrying a certain child around and being hit. Started well, as I sat in assembly watching my lovely former pupil we shall call 'Ucker, hitting the child in front. she was given a second chance but green spot (she takes a carpet spot to assembly so that she sits in her place) all most straight away, flew in the air while one of the senior leadership team was doing an assembly on perserverence and how to never give up. smiling to myself at the irony of this i had to sympathise as her teacher then removed her kicking, swearing, and wriggling through the doors to her centre. I later discovered that after this 'Ucker managed to slap one teaching assistant round the face, hit another one and then at breaktime hit all of her buddies who keep her entertained.

After break i went to collect my class only to discover that at least half of them were fighting with each other, and the 4 naughtiest boys were arguing with my release cover teacher about the fact that they were supposed to stand at the front of the line(I had told them too otherwise they tended to fight at the back of the line). This release teacher was SCREAMING at them for being insolent and making up rules. The boys were trying their hardest to explain but teacher was having none of it!! I ran away!!! Later in the day after an afternoon where i was supposed to be on release time planning and marking, but had spent it all helping everyone else, I wearily walked back to my classroom and then remembered I'd left something in the centre, turned round and promptly walked into the corner of the classroom door. This hurt. a lot. no seriously. I managed to hit my cheekbone below my left eye so now have a lightly swollen eye and a cheekbone so tender that i can't sleep on it. Clever huh?!


Amusing part of school this week has been twofold...

1: all teachers have been set up with a new school email account, and aswell as knowing all thier account profiles and settings i know all thier passwords: which are al animals... imagine the joy as passwords were revealed in staff meeting, to the cries of... "why the fuck am i elephant?!" and "meerkat? what are you trying to say?!" BTW... I am a type of cheese. Correct answers to this question will win a picture of my black eye!!

2: Today I learned what started the second world war!! Having done stupid history at GCSE (social and economic history of england!?!), I had never studied either of the world wars. As I had to teach how war broke out as part of my topic lesson this afternoon, I had a 20 minute crash course from one of my colleagues who had produced a powerpoint to show his class. How interesting is the build up to WW2!?! I'm now hooked... I want to know more about chaimberlain and why he kept giving hitler a second chance when churchill was in the background telling him not to! (now i realise this is a very simplistic view, but remember i've only learned about it in 20 mins today. I intend to find out more this weekend!)


House related Gubbins

Darren is back!!! And this time he's brought his family. Over the last few days my cats have managed to find kill and chase at least 4 mice around the house. How do I know they are not from outside i hear you ask... well.... I know this because on monday I saw one run accross the front of the sofa, and last night one ran over my foot while I was working!! nice huh?! unfortunately, Jack seems unwilling to finish what he started and his current favourite game is to catch them, jump on me with it in his mouth, then bat it around until its back is broken, or back legs are broken. then he gets bored and the maimed mouse struggles like some Platoon extra, gasping and pulling on its front legs, and hides under the cooker where I can't reach it and dies. I then have to get a stick and flick it out and put it in the bin. I am very bored of doing this and I hope Darren the mouse has warned the rest of his mouse family to stay away!

Tonight I made an amazing cake (mainly due to growing jealousy of how much cake is being eaten in central america by one pacamama and one questionmaster). It was a golden apple teacake with whole peices of apple and ginger crust! It tastes amazing!!! unfortuately i did not line the tin sufficiently and the entire thing had to be scraped out using a palate knife and now resembles a cake used as a weapon during a heated argument between phil and grant mitchell! Ah welll.. it all tastes good... who cares!


Finally Highlight of the week:

On monday I watched the amazing new BBC2 programme Amazon, with Bruce 'I like taking mind altering drugs and living in a grass skirt with remote tribes' Parry. It charts the course of the amazon from source in the high andes in Peru, to the wide mouth that opens onto the atlantic. First programme was this week and made me horridly homesick (don;t think you can be homesick for somewhere you don't live, but you know what I mean!) for peru and the highlands journey through bolivia. The highlight of the whole programme was the three days he spent with a peruvuian family who herd alpacas 2 kms from the source of the amazon at an altitude of over 4000m. They explained all the traditional beliefs and rituals, he drank chicha, chewed coca leaves, made offerings to pachamama, and helped herd and shear the alpacas ready to trade their fleeces. while doing this at one point the father of the family had a little radio on and his son (an unbelieveably cute 3 or 4 year old boy) danced like a dad at a wedding in the background. I've looked for a clip of this all over the net, but can't find said small boy anywhere! BOOOO! Again... a prize will await anyone who can find it. I've watched the whole episode twice already this week (he goes on to the red country to meet the Ashaninka tribe whose way of life is currently threatened by the cocaine traders, who are destroying huge parts of the amazon rainforest and the Ashaninka land to make coca fields to enable them to make more money from cocaine.)

Enough raving about how amazing the programme is... i'm off to book a new trip that follows the amazon for next year! .... now where's that winning lottery ticket?!....

Muchos queso, y gatos
Inti xx

"Its the end of the world as we know it....."

Just a quick update on the days momentous events.

switch on. After watching "the big bang machine" on I am loving the LHC at CERN and all the paranoia and actual general science attached to todaysBBCfour last week and grinning like a cheshire cat all the way through it (due to something to occupy my intellectual appetite at last, and a very long and altitude induced conversation on the inca trail with pequenopicklo of blog fame about string theory and the big 'what's out there'), I quickly became obsessed with the theory and experiments that the team were going to be looking in to.

Today was switch on day for the machine. Many media companies (here i point the finger at radio1 among others) reported this fact with the tag line "is this the end of the world?" Quite clearly not!! but fun to think so anyway! The chance of the scientists creating a black hole was most likely, however the black holes (thanks here to Mr Hawking for helping me understand this) would disappear quicker than they would register so again... the world would not end. I quite liked my Dad's take on this... (this is what he sent me as a response to my over excitement at discovering this experiment was going to take place)

"I have to say that while it is interesting stuff I get worried about science that makes predictions and then invents experiments to prove the theory. It's a bit like in flat earth days no-one noticed that sails slowly sink below the horizon. Interesting mad world philosophy - the world changes to support the theories being tested!"

Well said Dad!

So after today's switch on and the mass hysteria I have felt the scientists impact in my little life. At school today i went out to collect my children after break, only to discover one girl (remember i teach year 6 here) in hysterical tears. Apparently she had been like this most of break ... because, yes you guessed it, ... she thought the world was going to end! I looked her in disbelief and summoned all the sympathy i could muster and promptly called her a numpty. My exact words were "stop being a numpty and listen. they switched the machine on at 8am this morning, and it is now 11am. Do you not think if the world was going to end, it would have happened already?!"
To which she replied (between snot and sobs),
"but you don't understand, my mum would have died"
I pointed out that so would she have, and to stop being such an idiot and get into numeracy. Clearly sympathy is not a strong point, but i really have no time for irrational thought of 10 year olds and rainy yorkshire days.

Anyway, thought i should share this momentous day and its annoyances and ponderings, and thank you for reading this. If you have read this it means the world still has not combusted and i am still living in blissful overwork as a teacher and writing inane drivel on the Internet!

Love you all!

INTI xx

Rainy days often cause navel gazing and life contemplation and today has been such a day. Against the backdrop of the second VERY rainy day in a week, I have been thinking about things that have been significant over the past week.

Things that have vexed me over the last week: (Very unproductive to my general mental state i realise)

- Have realised that a small classroom at school means it gets smelly very quickly, even with the windows open.
- Why are my cats continuing to tip cat litter all over the floor during the night?
- I have a new girl in my class that I shall give the pseudonym pressurecooker. This is due to the fact i think she may be someone who if i can work out the right triggers will explode in quite impressive fashion. Whilst this makes my day to day teaching a nerve wracking experience, it does however present me with a 'scab' style scenario. I know I shouldn't pick at it, but dear god i want to make this girl explode-just to see what happens. So far, have discovered tests make her agitated, and she contorts her body into amazing positions in order to use anything but the table to lean on. Also when she has a disagreement with anyone, she gets very 'silent' cross and goes purple and veins appear! See... you want to make her explode now don't you!!

Things i have enjoyed this week:

- Realising that year six are no where near as scary as i thought, and that year 3's are so cute that i can't believe we even have to teach them!!
- Offereing to work a day for free can be good fun. I realised this when working at Endemic (go to www.endemicskatestore.com ) on saturday. It ended up being a bit like a grown up version of having a dressing up box! (sorry Lousia and Andy!) Would be quite happy to do it again... especially as i got to see 'proper chavs' ask for things that skate stores would never have, just cos they thought the store was cool! Oh and... When a guy asked if they sold Buffs... I knew what they were!!! YESSSS
- Cooking! oh my god it feels good to be able to cook my own food! I'm loving creating pasta dishes, and deciding what to eat each night. I particularly enjoyed cooking a BOlivian style meal of trout with vegetable quinoa the other night as it reminded me of being back in South America.
-The Paralympics. Having missed nearly all of the Olympics, its great to watch the Paralympics. So far I'm loving that the GB team repeatedly smash cycling WR, and have overtaken the Olympic GB team for number of Golds won. I also love watching the swimming and am constantly amazed at how well we do. I'm getting well into it, as it is on while i'm cooking my dinner every night. Today I cheered so loud for a Eleanor Simmonds in the womens 100 free, that i had a coughing fit and missed her win gold. I then had a mini cry at the emotion of it all, as she was only 13 and half the height of her competators. When she was interviewed she couldn;t even get her words out. She was crying so much she couldn;t even make sense! LOVE HER!
-REalising that i do actually have a brain! I watched University challenge last night, and managed to answer 6 starter questions the teams couldn;t even answer... proudest of which being "if you divide 666 by the sum of its digits you arrive at a prime number. What is that prime number?". I answered this in about 2 seconds! I even amazed myself! I shall pose this question to my top maths set tmrw. mwa hahaha!
- Loving Batman on an Imax screen. Went to bradfor wi brother and sister in law on saturday night to watch batman. Am totally in awe of heath ledger's performance. I truly am lost for words at his acting ability, and i find it really sad that that is the last film i will see him in. Such a loss.

Random facts:

Did you know Serpentine (what the inca crosses on necklaces are made from) are actually a form of asbestos!

Beelzebub means 'Lord of the Flies'!

Anyhoo... I now must stop writing, as i have IEP's to write and literacy to prepare for tmrw. oh and numeracy, and timetables to type up for support staff. Jeez... and its 8pm already! ugh.

BYE!!

Inti

knocked out turkeys

Today was the first day of term with the lovely creatures known as year six. My room was prepared but the question of dealing with hormone infested 10 year olds was still in question.

By 8am I had already had two cups of VERY strong black coffee, and was feeling a little sick at the stress of it all. Bell goes and like pavlovs dog... i respond by turning off music, wiping any trace of a smile off my face and walking out and shouting at aforementioned children to get in line.

Children in my class are reasonable and at the moment being very compliant little sheep. Got some good characters, and some overly helpful children. Character of the day award goes to one boy in my class who has turned up with half of one of his two top front teeth after falling over on holiday in turkey. The only smile that was broken by me all morning was when he told me this story and while trying to give him the "this is not the time nor place" look, I misheard him and thought he had fallen over a turkey. Hmmm Note to self: pay attention to children and try not to laugh at their misfortune.

These darlings of my life for the next 10 months (just realised thats just longer than a pregnancy ) have so far managed to amass 4 table points (rewards for good behaviour) and one warning (children get warning then caution and then sent to time out for any bad behaviour).

I shall note down day one as a 4TP/1W/0C/0TO. This is a good balance i find... a small amount of praise and a warning to show i'm not a push over. Yes very good.

School has taken my mind off how much I want to be away still, however coming home to empty house has made me eat more than i should and cradle a cusquena for the last hour. This melancholy state of mind has been rewarded by the only thing on TV being f'ing Big brther penultimate eviction. I never thought I'd hate it as much as i do right now. As if its still on... its mocking my summer i'm sure.

Cats are the only distraction from this... Currently Marley is asleep on my lap and JAck is continuing his slightly neurotic behaviour of trying to scoop all the litter out of the litter tray and running around the house meowing. THink he may be unwell. will monitor situation and report soon.

Will leave with the thought that tmrw is another day. In fact tmrw has already happened in australia.