I just started to update with my usual blather, then realised that I honestly have nothing amazingly earth-shatteringly exciting to say... except that I am so, so, so very tired. I think I may actually finish this lesson plan in the morning, which is very naughty and also possibly entirely neccesary for my sanity.

Aside from knackeredness, life is good. Still job-hunting, still no luck, but I'm still confident I'll find something. It's just over 30 school days until the end of my course now, and that is both terrifying and awesome. And in big happy news, Kyle and I have sorta semi-properly started house-hunting - moving in together in June! I cannot WAIT :)

Also, I have a confession that I need to make: I have become addicted to Mills and Boon's Regency books. I am very, very ashamed (but not enough to stop reading them!). Also, I bought some Georgette Heyer from Amazon today, which is slightly more high-brow, but only marginally. Kyle has been mocking me immensely for this, and I can't say that I blame him...

Anyway. Sleep time!

I've just impulse bought a microfiche reader. I feel this has taken my genealogy obsession to a new height - but hey, since I never have the time to visit the record office AND I happen to have the microfiche for around five Bedfordshire parishes in the post to me, looks like I'm creating my own record office. God knows where the bloody thing's going to go, but YAY I'm so excited.

Most women impulse buy shoes or chocolate. I buy a microfiche reader. Sad but true!

Anyway, I've got an observed lesson with my tutor coming in from Uni tomorrow. *sigh* So I really need to finalise my preparation for that - not to mention get my damn portfolio in order. Looks like another long night ahead...

YAY I own a microfiche reader!!! :)

Are these, or are these not, the most AMAZING socks known to mankind????



Yes, I am a mature, responsible teacher. But they make my toes ladybirds and thus I am ignoring any inkling of maturity!!!!! YAY LADYBIRDS!!!!

If you also wish to behave like a 5-year-old and have hours of fun wiggling your toes and pretending the ladybirds are talking to each other, then go to Topshop - they're only £4! Well, £3.80 with student discount, hehe!

This has made my day :)

Today has been the most unproductive day since I first tried to draft my Freshwater Biology coursework. *sigh* You know when staring at the ceiling suddenly takes precedence over ANYTHING else? And you're always going to start work 'in ten more minutes'? Yep, I've had one of those days. I'm putting it down to PMS, but I suddenly have zero motivation to work on my assignment, and it's driving me nuts because I really want to do well on it... but I've barely looked at the frickin' thing all day. Or I'll read a few sentences, groan, and then head back to blogs/news/LJ/http://thisissand.com. *sigh*

I think I'm just going to have to draw a line under today, head over to Emma's for dinner and commiseration on the work-front, then maybe tidy up my room.

Anyway, today has also been shit because the Co-Op had no Pop Tarts. I'm in uproar and becoming increasingly convinced that this is a sure violation of my human rights. Or something. No Pop Tarts indeed...

In ACTUAL news, I'm on half term holidays right now. I've been a bit poorly but *touch wood* I'm better now - unfortunately the same can't be said for Kyle who's been ill for ages now and has missed a week of work. I'm pretty worried about him, and I know he's getting stressed out. Hopefully he'll be better soon and it'll all be reet :)

The last couple of weekends I've been away. Weekend-before-last was my grandparents' Golden wedding anniversary. I normally find my family a bit stressy, but I actually had a really fun time. My Grandparents were really sweet too - Granddad made us all get a bit teary when he said it had been the best fifty years of his life, that he wouldn't change a thing and no-one could ever have replaced Nanna. That was pretty adorable :) Aside from that it was the usual drunken family gathering, and all I can say is you haven't lived until you've seen pensioners playing with glowsticks...

Oh, there was also an incident where Mum nearly punched one of the guests. He patted my ass, she got mad. It was impressively vicious, she waved a fork in his face and everything. The immortal words "Don't ever touch my daughter again" were uttered and it was all quite Jeremy Kyle. Anyway he's not family and we have it on good authority that he won't be invited back, unsurprisingly.

Last weekend I headed back to the good old Small Home Town for Kim's birthday. I hadn't been planning to go, but Kyle was ill and it looked like I was going to have a really quiet weekend, so I made a last minute change of plan... Of course I didn't tell Kim, that would have taken all the fun out of it! I got Sonia in on the plan, and when we met Kim the guys made a human wall in front of me for the full effect... Hehe, she cried! Anyway it was a great evening, we went for a meal and it was sooooo nice to see everyone... and Kim has a bump!!

So yes... that's what I've been up to! Aside from that it's mostly been trying to draft this assignment and failing quite spectacularly. *sigh* It's stressing me out, but I will get there. Eventually. At the moment I'm more worried because I'm using up a LOT of my free time attempting to draft this work and my lesson planning for three lessons I'm teaching next week just hasn't happened yet.

But on the plus side, I could still be working on the hotel reception. There's always a positive angle!!

Now onto Neighbours, more chocolates and then Emma's for dinner... Oh, and forgot to mention that The Curse Of My Laptops has struck again (but with no spilling of wine or shoving power cables in USB ports this time - at least that I'm aware of!). The screen's been a little dodgy for a year now, but yesterday I knocked it in the floor during a particularly mad dash to answer the door for the pizza guy, and now I keep having to fiddle with the connector at the back to get the computer to run properly... I can't let it run on battery because the battery life is shit. *sigh* Well, this one lasted two years which is more than most of mine have... I am THIS close to ordering one of the Dell Studio laptops (in pink, naturally!). I think I'll glance over my finances and then maybe just take the plunge. I've wanted a new one for ages anyway, but this one has problems and I'm convinced that it's just going to randomly die one day - probably when I've done a shitload of work and haven't backed up - so maybe I should just go for it.

Also, it comes in pink. I'm sold on the logic. :)

Right... Neighbours O'Clock!

According to various news sources, Apple just donated $100k to the campaign AGAINST Proposition 8 (which would outlaw same-sex marriages in California). According to Apple, it's a "civil rights" issue and not a political issue. Fuck, yes. Suddenly the hundreds of pounds I've spent on iPods, iTunes and my iPhone over the years all seem totally worth it. :)

Yay, Apple! Thank you for helping me justify buying my iPhone just that little bit more!