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Monday morning arrive at school to find my Teacher's not there, making for a completely wasted day. First thing Tuesday morning I fall on my ass the second I step out of my house in the morning cos of the ice, resulting in a limp that lasts days and a dodgy hip a la old woman. On Wednesday I get to teach my only lesson of the week which did not go well (note to fellow student teachers: incorporating Hannah Montana, Spiderman, Winnie the Pooh and Father Christmas into your maths lessons will NOT improve motivation or attention, no matter how good it seems in theory!). While the rest of the world (and all my coursemates) have a snow day on Thursday, I have to go into school, only to find 3 teachers and 23 pupils. Much faffing on the part of said teachers results in 5 hours wasted at school. 3am Friday morning it becomes clear that the germ-full children have given me a stomach bug and I spend a whole day and night being ill. Now it's Saturday ad I've been writing a Maths essay ALL DAY LONG! Could have done more earlier in the week had my time not been taken up by planning lessons that never got taught due to snow/illness/teacher absence. Lame. And I'm only halfway through, so Sunday is set to be as rubbish as the rest of the week!

And now I've procrastinated for a while I must be getting back to that essay...

Edit - Having just this second posted this, my boyfriend's just called with some good news, things are looking up already, yay! :)

I've been thinking. Star Trek; so wouldn't happen. And here's why:

Replicator ("Replicator, I'd like some chicken soup please")
+ Holodeck
= THE END OF CIVILISATION

Ah, the enlightenment that only cider can bring...

Turns out, doing a PGCE actually is a lot of work! Largely writing things and carrying things I've found.

First actual day in school tomorrow, ridiculously nervous. But really excited too! This is the school I'll be doing my first bit of real teaching in in January so hopefully it's a nice class and above all a nice teacher. On the other hand if they're all unruly little buggers I suppose it'll be good experience!

Had my first anniversary ever on Thursday, very exciting, hopefully the first of many :)

I got a 2.1 in my degree :D

Needed some good news, this week has sucked! Lost my purse so I'm not only cashless and cardless, I've also lost my provisional license, my student ID, my Boots card, my blood donor card etc etc...

Went to the club I lost it in today to see if anyone had handed it in. Knew I'd not get the cash back but the rest of the stuff in there won't have been much use to anybody so I thought it might have been handed in. No such luck. Bastards.

And I hate my job. Mostly cos of a certain staff member who doesn't seem too fond of me. But I need the money. Absolutely broke.

Still, 2.1 :)

It appears I'm turning into my mother.

It's my boyfriend I pity the most...

Bought a fancy new dress today for the Summer Ball. Very fancy. The kind you're scared to wear, particularly when you're as clumsy as me.

After nearly 2 small-flying-bastard-thing-free days I was beginning to think maybe they'd leave me alone. But no, the beefiest hornet I've ever seen shows up at midnight. And where does it decide to land? On the dress. It knew, I swear it did. While it was there on my new favourite thing there was no way I could rain solventy terror upon it. Had to wait til it condescended to move before I could smite it. Bastard. Clearly they aren't getting in where I thought they were. Either that or they've found a new way in. They do seem to posess intelligence superior to your general hornets.

Also, do these things not sleep? I thought I was fairly safe after dark. But no. It seemes they're quite capable of buzzing in and stinging my face while I slumber.

Yesterday I killed a hornet cos it was in my room and just wouldn't land in a place where I could catch it. Today I found another hornet in my room, and a dead spider in my soup. This is clearly some kind of insect karmic payback. I killed today's hornet too, so I dread to think what will happen tomorrow.

Handed in my dissertation, wahay! Ended up just 4 words under the maximum limit. Handng it over after my puny two hours of sleep didn't give me the sense of relief I'd hoped for though, only panic that I didn't do it good enough.

Now just got a 4000 word essay to rattle off by Thursday and I'm one exam away from finishing my degree. Scary stuff.

Can finally see an end to my dissertation, yay! Will be done in a few days, can't wait! Though I think everyone who knows me is looking forward to it more, as it means they won't have to watch me absent-mindedly flitting about everywhere being stressed, and I'll be able to talk about something that's not my dissertation.

Slight problem though; I'm 1000 words over the word limit already and I'm yet to add a conclusion...

2000 words done. Take that dissertation!

Today I managed to withdraw cash from a cash machine, then in a typically me moment of mind-blowing stupidity managed to walk away without actually taking the money. Didn't realise til later when I tried to pay for something that I had nothing.

What really really sucks is that someone used to cash machine right after me. I didn't walk away fast or anything, I stopped to put my purse back in my bag, but moved aside cos the person behind me seemed to be in a hurry. Did she call me back and give me my money? Did she fuck. She kept it. The world's full of bastards.