Carpe Diem

1.  Supervised teaching experience - to include journals, evaluation and continuing professional development guidelines - done!

2.  Assessment, evaluation and feedback - done!

I think I have earned a few drinks tonight...possibly even a few more as I have downloaded Angels and Demons and Tom Hanks is not how I saw the hero (?) in the books and just like in the Da Vinci Code, he may very well irk me to the point of sleep!  Don't think I have sat through the DVC without falling asleep.  A bit like Pulp Fiction really...can't watch that without nodding off either.  Oh and I've just noticed that the new Star Trek has downloaded as well...think I'll opt for that one instead!  You've just got to love torrents!!!!

So, that's my first year on my PGCE over and done with...halfway to being a teacher - woot!

Not that I'll get a job in the profession straight away (if at all, considering my age!!)...in which case, I might just consider doing my Masters instead!  Yeah, right...now where did I put that loose change of a couple of grand????

His Hippiness has done something diabolical to the printer and it is refusing to obey my commands!

The hippy is in a whole heap of trouble when he comes in from work.

It's not like I haven't got one or two assignments to print now is it???

The shed for him tonight I think...I shall hide the camper van keys - no luxury for him!  If I had a dog house he'd be in it!  The metaphore will just have to do.

Grrrrrrr 

Oh, he's just pulled in to the drive...Right, where's the frying pan???

...I thought I would carry on for a tad

Is it just me or can anyone else see these MP's expenses/allowances issues are a smoke screen?  You know, preventing them with getting on with the real business of running what's left of the country (admittedly probably into the ground but well...).

Now, I am what is commonly known as apolitical - just ask my friend Abe Unlimited - I am too apathetic to be an anarchist and too overweight to be an activist - however what I definitely am not is blind!

If the main political parties aren't careful, we'll have the BNP as MEP's and then where will we all be?  Course that is a bit of an oxymoron as allegedly they don't believe in Europe!

No longer are they swaggering around like something out of Clockwork Orange...no, no, these guys are walking around in suits and being very plausible in denial, their 3K white hoods neatly folded up as pocket handkerchiefs.

Look to your laurels (if you aren't too well fed from expensive restraunts on er...daily food allowances to see your backside) all you MP's out there, or summat nasty is going to creep up behind you to a Beethoven soundtrack, just ready to kick you in the head and drink a glass of milk to celebrate!

Mind you, if you see one drinking alcohol, do helpfully and sweetly remind them that we got pure alcohol from Islam, won't you and that the Swastika comes originally from India oh and that the original Aryan race were Persians?!  NOT that I want to see Sharia law here either by the way because that's just as insidious.  Britain is not a fascist or Islamic state - what it is is multicultural and vibrant because of it.

Diversity is what makes this world so interesting...let's appreciate and celebrate it and be nice to each other in the process.

....SPAM!!

I have just spent the last 20 minutes removing canned pork luncheon meat from my google mail account.  Now, I don't mind doing this (much!) but it goes straight into a spam folder which comes as standard.  So, if it's intelligent enough to know it's spam...why doesn't it just delete it for me and save me the hassle of doing it myself??  Hmm?

Out of curiosity and, in an effort to ensure that I haven't deleted anything from my students, I went through them most meticulously.  I had 398 spam messages and, when you think I was only in it yesterday...well, you can see why I'm a tad irritated!

So, I courageously went through them - 148 of them were from someone selling me Viagra...ah but, of those 148 no two names were identical - damn but there's a lot of Viagra out there!  Then, we move on to someone selling me degrees for AMERICAN Universities...what?  We then move swiftly on to FAKE, yes FAKE Rolex and Cartier watches...my watch cost six quid in a market and it works just fine thanks.  It's got as much bling as I need and I have no idea who made it...not that Cartier probably make their own anyways...they just shove in diamonds at mid/day/night, 3, 6 and 9 - but of course that's only if your really rich...otherwise I think you get it over the 'i' in Cartier or sumfink!  Dunno, never seen one, let alone worn one - be too scared of getting mugged...or worse!

Then, my credit rating...haven't got one...have no loans you see or credit cards either...effectively I do not exist except in cyberverse.  Fine by me.  Still, they want me to find out how I'm doing, who's checking up on me and why...well, no-one should be and why they would is beyond me.  Okay, the next ones were diet pills, again in vast quantities...I would ask what they were implying but no response is often the most apt reply.  In lesser quantities then were B & Q, Argos, Amazon and someone else whose name I forget.

Now, forgetting for just one moment that I am female, so the point of Viagra is completely lost on me; and forgetting for a moment that diet pills DON'T BLOODY WORK anyway; and then buying an online degree from a USA University - if I'd wanted one I'd have gone there and earned it; and forgetting that I am a tramp who is about as interested in designer anything (or crazy enough to want a facsimile thereof) as a bin bag and who therefore does not need loans and credit cards to purchase these designer/fake items, so need for credit checking...can I just ask this...WHY?????????????????  How do they get my email addresses and why do I only get spam on google????  Eh?  Can somebody please use these little nanobots for target practice?  If the bots on google know it's spam enough to put it in the appropriate folder, why can't the bloody thing just delete? Can I set up a forcefield that omits anything with the words viagra, oh - I forgot the penis englargement - damn, how could I forget something like that...I just remembered er...so yes the words viagra, penis, diet, degree, credit and watches.
Think it will work?

I say again, grrrrrrrrrr

...I am in!

I am currently suffering VERY recurring toothache.  I have had this toothache for seven years.  I have spent over a thousand pounds trying to find out what this toothache is all about.  Dentists the width of the country, including a six year incursion up north, are not in agreement on what is causing the pain.  I have had two perfectly good teeth removed in Colchester, whilst leaving the roots sticking up from my gums... they couldn't even pull it out AND I had to DRIVE (YES DRIVE, whilst off my FACE on anesthetic!!!) to another of their practices to try and remove the roots...plus four X-Rays.  Another two perfectly good teeth removed in Manchester also plus X-Rays...and, despite all this...I AM STILL IN LARGE AMOUNTS OF PAIN!!!

I cannot begin to describe it...but I shall try, just for the sake of clarity!!!

Ever had an injection so far up your cheek it feels like it's permeated your brain?  Well, times that by 4.  Ever had an injection in the roof of your mouth, that really scratchy feel?  Times that by 4.    Ever had an injection so far into your lower jaw, it feels as if you have swollen glands?  Ever suffered from overwhelming producuction of saliva...WITHOUT the benefit of real desire for a particular food?  Ever had an irresistible urge to smack your jaw so hard against a doorframe that broken jaw would be a relief?  Now, ever had a migraine?  Well, take it from your head, locate it in a specific area of your mouth...NOW your're getting it.

I wouldn't really mind if it hadn't been DENTISTS THAT CAUSED THE PAIN IN THE FIRST PLACE.

I was perfectly fine until a checkup.  Then they diagnosed a problem.  They sorted it to the point where I was in pain.  Okay thought I naively...it will pass!  Two years later it got so bad I went back again.  Fine they said but we have spotted another problem.  Right says I...will it get rid of the pain?  OH YES, they assured me, like the Churchill Dog...it will make everything okay.  Fine says I, do please go ahead.  Have credit card...can get dental treatment.  Four years later, am still quaffing loads of pain killers, have lost four PERFECTLY good teeth and they STILL don't effing known what's wrong with my teeth.  X-rays have shown absolutely, precisely, effing nuffink.

So, what the effing hell is causing it...cos dental X-rays don't show it...I still have roots so long outside the gums that I use them instead of the PERFECTLY good teeth I lost.

Did I mention they were PERFECTLY good teeth at all?

I am currently going through a packet of painkillers a day.  I cannot go to a dentist as I no longer trust them.  I don't trust doctors any better either, as they nearly killed me and put me into a coma through ineptitude a long time ago.  In fact I haven't been to a doctor since 1984.  AT ALL!  Not even for a sick note.  Rather take a day off my annual leave than piss about with nonsense forms for being off sick!!!

The term general practitioner is EXACTLY what it says.  GP's know nothing specific and, if I have a problem I want a specialist.  Sorry...call me strange but hey...it's flattering.  Dentists, on the other hand, seem to get paid by the amount of work they do...so, if you have PERFECTLY good teeth, they don't get paid for you.

Did I mention they were PERFECTLY good teeth at all (again)?  They bloody well admitted they were...oh, yeah you're teeth are fine but we'll have to remove your gums!!!!!!!!!

Just thought I'd post something even though it's grumpy, painful, heartbroken (that's another post [perhaps] but possibly contributory to this one!!!!!) and just downright PISSED OFF on a Beaufort Scale of 10 for stupidity in trying to maintain healthy dental practice whilst in NO pain. Then getting toothache for my PAINS in my attempt to  be good FROM them 'cos I was doing the right thing AND as an added bonus COST me and gained those charlatans over a thousand pounds OF MY HARD EARNED CASH in the bloody process!!!

BASTARDS.

Apologies all...am in so much PAIN it's hard to be coherent but I'm sure you get my drift...

Tagging...lying bastard dentists.

Night all and may your gods be with you xxx