This is my Mother. She wears a wig...
It's speech test time. A special time of year for me, where I get to listen to 250 kids give a 1-2 minute test. They are pretty good and it's "Show and Tell" time this time.
There have been an extraordinary number of kids whose treasured possessions are their sharp pencils. My partner teacher suspects that they simply didn't bother to bring in an item. I say get real. My most treasured possession, as a 16 year old, was my pencil and was definitely not my fake ID.
By far my favorite speech was the girl who brought a picture of her family in. 'This is my father, he works for blah blah blah works very hard blah blah.
This is my mother. She wears a wig...'
Well, I put my head on the desk and was more or less crying with laughter. She took it in very good humor too and we were both laughing. When I asked her why, she told me her brother had told her 'hageteru' - you are going bald!
When I relayed this story to Kei and Martine and Luke in Araku last week, I also told them how Keisuke also says this to me.
You are going bald.
At which point Martine jumped in to my defense by correcting Kei with 'Not bald - receding!'
So it's good to know that I am not in fact going bald. But simply receding.
Like Elizabeth I. Another famously receding ginger.
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I have been closely controlling my PC use. I have, on many occasions just left the laptop in its bag as my relationship with Blogs, Flickr and Facebook was becoming autistic. Like a person who needs to turn the lights on and off ten times before leaving a room or else all the babies in the world will die, my Facebook checking was getting obsessive compulsive. Don't get me wrong, I love Facebook and the people it has put me in touch with, but when I'm getting 5 hours sleep a night and wicked RSI to boot, staying up into the early hours to check who is throwing cyber food at whom and who has applied the questions application, I have draw the line and reassess.
As a result, I watched 2 whole films last week, bought 3 newspapers and read them, completed 2 crosswords and have less hand hurt.
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Now listening to Aztec Camera 'Somewhere in my Heart' and it is one of those songs that makes me ache for the past. I would never, for love nor money, want to go back to 16 year old Sigsy, but That little natsukashi switch gets switched and creates a little wave of nostalgia. I had no idea what was ahead of me. I thought I would become a doctor. That's all I thought. I had no idea how many moves, boyfriends and jobs were ahead of me.
I wonder what advice I would give my 16 year old self...
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So I really have been laying off the PC - it was too much and I am glad I did. I have been enjoying a slower pace and now school is over, I have free time and am not freaking out about what to do with it. because I read another self help book (Dear God). It told me many things. And not to panic was one of them. So here I am not panicking, but in a lot of pain because my shoulders are fucked for some reason and I feel like I broke my back or something. So today I shall carry nothing, stand as little as possible and see what happens.
THE END
There have been an extraordinary number of kids whose treasured possessions are their sharp pencils. My partner teacher suspects that they simply didn't bother to bring in an item. I say get real. My most treasured possession, as a 16 year old, was my pencil and was definitely not my fake ID.
By far my favorite speech was the girl who brought a picture of her family in. 'This is my father, he works for blah blah blah works very hard blah blah.
This is my mother. She wears a wig...'
Well, I put my head on the desk and was more or less crying with laughter. She took it in very good humor too and we were both laughing. When I asked her why, she told me her brother had told her 'hageteru' - you are going bald!
When I relayed this story to Kei and Martine and Luke in Araku last week, I also told them how Keisuke also says this to me.
You are going bald.
At which point Martine jumped in to my defense by correcting Kei with 'Not bald - receding!'
So it's good to know that I am not in fact going bald. But simply receding.
Like Elizabeth I. Another famously receding ginger.
*****************************************
I have been closely controlling my PC use. I have, on many occasions just left the laptop in its bag as my relationship with Blogs, Flickr and Facebook was becoming autistic. Like a person who needs to turn the lights on and off ten times before leaving a room or else all the babies in the world will die, my Facebook checking was getting obsessive compulsive. Don't get me wrong, I love Facebook and the people it has put me in touch with, but when I'm getting 5 hours sleep a night and wicked RSI to boot, staying up into the early hours to check who is throwing cyber food at whom and who has applied the questions application, I have draw the line and reassess.
As a result, I watched 2 whole films last week, bought 3 newspapers and read them, completed 2 crosswords and have less hand hurt.
****************************************************:
Now listening to Aztec Camera 'Somewhere in my Heart' and it is one of those songs that makes me ache for the past. I would never, for love nor money, want to go back to 16 year old Sigsy, but That little natsukashi switch gets switched and creates a little wave of nostalgia. I had no idea what was ahead of me. I thought I would become a doctor. That's all I thought. I had no idea how many moves, boyfriends and jobs were ahead of me.
I wonder what advice I would give my 16 year old self...
****************************************************
So I really have been laying off the PC - it was too much and I am glad I did. I have been enjoying a slower pace and now school is over, I have free time and am not freaking out about what to do with it. because I read another self help book (Dear God). It told me many things. And not to panic was one of them. So here I am not panicking, but in a lot of pain because my shoulders are fucked for some reason and I feel like I broke my back or something. So today I shall carry nothing, stand as little as possible and see what happens.
THE END
posted by Sigsy @ 2:07 PM
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It was the usual mixture of shenanegans and drinking and chatting and eating and catching up and it was a great day! We stayed until 11. I got a cold that week. Ms Lisa put in a surprise appearance from Singapore, which was something of a lovely surprise for El Pixero. It ended up quite messy with some fun photo shoots! YOu can see more of that 
The wee brown bag on the wall is now mine and we are looking to purchase one of her fabulous prints. Either 
