Today is one of my last Fridays (if not the last Friday) that I have off school. I’ve been told that my interview for my job will be next week, when the rest of the interviews are happening (a lot of staff have left recently). Well, I was told after some prodding from me.

Me: Have I got an interview yet?

Headteacher: Oh, I’m not even sure you’re on the list.

Me: Hmm. Well can I be put on the list?

Thanks, headteacher. Something tells me that the job of music teacher/co-ordinator (although if music co-ordinator is to be my job title then surely I deserve a slightly larger salary?) isn’t as highly valued as it should be.

So I’ve been put on the list, hopefully. And I’ll have an interview early next week, hopefully. I am not expecting the interview to be a proper interview. They want me to stay. It will be a formality.

What I’m not sure about however is whether they will be paying me over the summer holiday. They really should do, as that is the whole reason why I’ve had to apply for my own job, to make it “proper”. Otherwise I’d be going back in September as an official supply teacher, not on a contract. I specifically made clear my desire to be a full-time, contracted, paid-over-summer teacher.

I really hope it happens.

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Birthday fun

July 1, 2009 · 0 comments

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My birthday weekend was fun. Beth took me out for a posh curry on Saturday evening, and we found a bunch of our friends coincidentally at the same table that we were going to eat at. During the day my dad and step-mum came over for lunch, and on Sunday (my birthday) my mum, step-dad and sister came over for lunch.

On the materialistic side of things, I powered up my new netbook and installed eeebuntu on it, pretty much as soon as I woke up on the Sunday. Also received a generous amount of money, some of which will fund netbook purchase, some of which will purchase new clothes? New something? I wanted to get a Flip Ultra HD with it. But that’ll have to wait.

I am 30 now. Hurrah.

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Ha!

June 26, 2009

I am 30 on Sunday… Ha!
But for now, as it’s a Friday evening, I’m going to run around a park with a bunch of youth.

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Wimbledon

June 22, 2009

Wimbledon starts today!
I am currently “planning” at home, but kind of watching the review of last year’s Wimbledon at the same time… I am half tempted to stay at home this afternoon and watch the first matches. Of course, I won’t do that…
Instead I have Year 6 classes. They’re all about ready to leave school, [...]

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I am about to become EMPLOYED

June 15, 2009

Here we go then. I’m back. I think a ten day break was all that was needed. I think it’s a little harsh on myself to refer to anything that isn’t “spiritual” or “godly” content as drivel. It most certainly isn’t. I don’t think I meant that it was, anyway, but thinking about it again, [...]

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Do we have a Promised Land?

June 15, 2009

The Israelite’s Promised Land was Canaan.
Do we have our own personal equivalents of the Promised Land whilst we’re alive, or is our Promised Land simply Heaven?

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Reasons for this temporary goodbye

June 5, 2009

What I’m currently thinking regarding blogging/twittering et al:
1) I have not got time to spend thinking about what to blog.
2) I do not want to spend time blogging about stuff that doesn’t really matter, in the grand scheme of things.
3) Again, I do not want to spend time tweeting stuff that doesn’t really matter. There [...]

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Let me edit you!

May 27, 2009

I want to be an editor.
I spot mistakes so easily. Spelling/grammar mistakes on television. Mistyped words in my wife’s thesis.
I just have to look at a sentence and I can spot a tiny mistake straight away.
So with that said, I’m going to look into what I need to do to become an editor.
Or, I’ll just [...]

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