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March 18, 2006
my portrait
Just did the which artist should paint you quiz as recommended by oopsydaisyivegonecrazy and it seems I should be painted by Alfred Gockel, the verdict on me being:
‘All American yet funky, you inspire an artist’s imagination
And while not everyone will understand your portrait, you will!’
Meanwhile, on the what age do you act quiz I came out as 26, one year younger than Ohna. The kids were 16 and 17 so it’s clearly a bit of an equaliser.
B-))
Posted by Billy at 12:53 PM | Comments (0)
March 2, 2006
results just in
Kiloh made it into her school of choice, the one Apoa already goes to (apparently, this blog has a bit of a readership, there, btw). She was quite touched that I came back from Cambridge early so I could be here when she got home to open the letter. We’re chuffed but there are a few tears around the hood as well. Ohna woke up in Australia to get the news by text. It was like election night as I sat typing the ‘results’ into my email while Kiloh sat beside me discussing it all and getting new results on msn.
B-)
Posted by Billy at 9:19 PM | Comments (1)
March 1, 2006
secondary transfer
No news yet about where Kiloh will be going to school next year. We had all thought the letter would be arriving today and I thought it might have when I saw one letter addressed to Ohna with Kiloh’s initials after it. As Ohna’s in Australia and it’ll be the middle of her night when Kiloh opens it, I wanted to make sure I had the right envelope so I phoned the council and found that they’re putting them in the post today so it’ll be tomorrow or the next day before we get it. Hope it’s not tomorrow as I’ll be away until night-time. Do I make her wait or have her open it while I’m on the other end of the phone?
B-}
Posted by Billy at 12:33 PM | Comments (0)
strike
I’m on strike next Tuesday. Luckily, a student mentioned it in a tutorial. I hadn’t had time yet to read the emails from NATFHE, one of which had the info. It would be typical of an academic not to know he was on strike because he hadn’t read the email yet. I wouldn’t faint if I found out that more than one academic uses the day to catch up on some work.
One depressing aspect of this is how little anyone seems to care when academics go on strike. How many of you know about the long-running dispute and academic boycott of London Met, for example?
There has been some national coverage of the coming strike and assessment boycott on the BBC and national papers, but it seems indicative to me that the first info on media coverage on the website is that ‘news of balloting appeared in the Belfast Newsletter, Portsmouth News and elsewhere’
B-}
Posted by Billy at 12:24 PM | Comments (0)
McClosure
TImes - McDonald’s closing 25 restaurants
Oisin will be pleased about this. We traumatised him last week when McDonald’s was the only option for a snack after swimming.
B-)
Posted by Billy at 8:24 AM | Comments (0)