Melanie

Why did you think you were banned? What did you do? What did I miss?

Yay! It's the holidays! And I only have 112 books and 111 pieces of coursework to mark! ... ... ... huh... oh well, at least I don't have to get up at 6.30am for the next two weeks...

Originally posted by ToeJamFootball its wednesday here It's Wednesday here too... I wish it were Friday though, cos then I'd be on holiday.

No, I don't drink coffee. I don't like it, but I'm not allowed caffeine anyway for medical reasons. Most of my colleagues do though

What's your avatar? Is it a fractal?

Originally posted by niomosy I want that button to do something when I click on it...

Originally posted by lug +1 Dammit! The hunka-hunka-burnin'-lug was here and I missed him!

So quit staying away!!

Originally posted by Bonoman What's up, Fruno? How's life? JAMIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!

Originally posted by niomosy You ever go to login to something at work and you type in one of your non-work id's? I just did Yeah, I often go to log in to eBassist at work and use a non-work ID Seriously though, no. I have two IDs at work - one for my e-mail and one for logging onto my laptop and the electronic registers. I have sometimes mixed those up, but I've never tried to log onto any work system with a non work username.

Hi

Originally posted by Zamfir No? I coulda sworn you posted pics of some body part or another and the mods went, "Harrumph!" Or am I completely brainfarting? Oh, pics, yes. Photocopies, no. I posted a webcam pic of me in a bikini top and asked if my boobs were too big. It got deleted PDQ.

Originally posted by Zamfir Mel will have to explain. I'm liable to get the part wrong. Caused a bit of a brouhaha, it did. I think it was when allan by his own admission was trying to figure out where appropriate mod limits were. Huh?! What are we talking about? I've never photocopied any part of my body.

Good afternoon thread killers Do not say lug's name in the threadkiller. Thank you.

Everyone needs to quit it with the backwards {censored}

*cough*

*yawn*

So, I just found out some sonofabitch put my picture on flashyourrack.com

*yawn*

Originally posted by Zamfir Melanie You're welcome! Hey, I have a job-related question for you. How much time do you spend outside of school hours (nights, weekends) prepping for classes? And what do you teach again (grade and subject)? I have a fuzzy memory that it's English, but I'm probably brainfarting. I ask because I'm submitting an application for a 2-year master's in teaching of Social Studies with an ESL add-on. I hope to do it in 1.5 years, maybe faster... Possibly, the amount of time it took me to see this and reply goes someway to answering your question!! You asked at the wrong time really. I have a real downer on at the moment about time spent outside 'normal' school hours. This was my week: Monday - 8am-6.45pm - 2 hours marking coursework at home Tuesday - 8am-6pm - 1 hour marking books at home, 30 minutes planning Wednesday's lessons Wednesday - 8am-7pm - 1 hour at home marking Thursday - 8am-8pm - didn't do anything when got home so wasn't planned for Friday Friday - 8am-5.30pm and I've brought home more coursework and another set of books. I also need to plan for Monday and Tuesday. Probably about 5 hours work for the weekend. Next week will be pretty much the same, except I'll be at school later on Monday. It is a lot of work. A lot. But the rewards are fantastic. I was congratulated by the Assistant Headteacher today because 10 of my low ability year 9 class acheived level 5 (national average) in the mock SATs - he was only expecting 2 or 3 to get level 5. You were right, it is English. This means harder work marking everything - it's not prescriptive like, for example, Maths. There's no right or wrong answer. I teach 11-18 year olds.

Originally posted by Zamfir I dropped Jazz Ad a small line, complete with a Google cache link. Awww, thanks