Long time between blog posts

Sorry for not posting sooner. It has been an incredibly busy couple of weeks! I have had a lot of marking to do which took priority. I went to Melbourne last weekend which was fabulous and spent this weekend resting. I actually slept during the day today - first time in a VERY long time. Am going to try to finish the samurai sudoku now...just as soon as i make a toasted sandwhich for dinner. Hope your week is a good one!

Have a good weekend

Well I hope you have a good weekend. Spent much of this sunny day at the local library marking papers for my students. I did my usual training session this morning, getting stronger each time which is great. My husband and I had morning coffee at boboli - a gorgeous little sweet shop that I never get to go to because it is always closed by the time I get home each day from work. Today we went for coffee and I mentioned that I would come back to buy dessert for dinner. After spending five hours marking in the library I went back and asked for a couple of slices of Baklava - well, he gave me a whole box! I have decided his kindness (and wonderful baklava) should be rewarded so I will definitely buy some yummy homemade biscuits to take into work at some stage in the next couple of weeks.

I have a lot more marking to do and will go to buy a couple of things before I get back into it.

Whatever you choose to do - have a wonderful weekend.

Weekends - hope you have a good one!

From the moment I woke this morning the weather has done nothing but impress, warm and inspire. My personal training session this morning was great. I am actually feeling a lot stronger now, running further and further in each session. I am now training for two events - one is a 9km bridge run in Sydney and the other is a mini triathalon 300m swim, 3km run and 5km bike ride or something to that effect. I am definitely a lot fitter now than I was at the beginning of the year and am inspired to push myself further and harder each week.

I took my husband to the Eveleigh Markets this morning and ran into a couple of friends and their baby girl which was nice. We love buying produce from the farmers' market. Today I bought a lovely bunch of pale or dusty pink Lisianthus which I have put in our bedroom.

I bought some lovely dutch carrots, broccoli, shiitake mushrooms, swiss brown mushrooms, baby spinach leaves, dutch cream potatoes, shallots, navel oranges, braeburn apples and pink lady apples. Was a great purchase! Will do some cooking tomorrow! Visited my butchers Nick and John and of course walked away with some lovely meat. I can never understand why people would buy their meat already wrapped in plastic in supermarkets. It really tastes nothing like meat freshly purchased from the local butcher. The meat really does taste better!

I have this wonderful noticeboard which I ordered last year for my fabulous department. In any case, I lost the key and then miraculously found it whilst cleaning out the home office during the school holidays. I went to Spotlight today and was overwhelmed (literally) by the Martha Stewart Craft items on sale there. I love Martha Stewart! Alas, I resisted all temptation and purchased some lovely letters to spell out English Noticeboard and then some safari type pictures for the Book Safari theme for my classroom. I think it's time that I make my classroom a little more visually aesthetic.

Tonight, we are going to a friend's place for dinner. It should be a lovely evening and a lovely close to a beautiful day! Tomorrow... now that will be time spent with family and then some marking that really needs to be done!

Time is never time enough

I feel that I must concur with the sentiments expressed by one of my fabulous work colleagues in her blog about time passing by so quickly. We are almost at the end of the second week of term. there are eight weeks to go, and while that sounds like a long time, it isn't.

I have found that this week has been a most unproductive week in terms of my administrative role, thus far. Unproductive in the sense that I have done nothing other than mark papers for my year 12 students (whilst pushing to the side the year 11 papers that I didn't finish in the holidays, but MUST do this weekend so I don't have too much marking to do when the Trial HSC starts)

Today I seemed to deal with students behaving badly and try to provide support to a few colleagues. All of this is a very important part of my role, and one that I take seriously. I have always maintained that it is a real privilege to teach students. Likewise, it is a real privilege to work with my colleagues.

I cannot seem to resolve though, the growing piles of paper on my desk at school. It seems as though my desk at home is now a haven of minimal clutter (no clutter actually) which promotes clarity of thought. My desk at work, however, resembles a mind trying to remember too much, do too much and cluttered all the way through. My goal for Friday is to do some tidying and filing. I would have thought my time would be better spent preparing lessons and providing some good instruction regarding a whole range of education issues, but, alas, as for all teachers... it seems the teaching just has to fit in with the overcrowded curriculum and expectations placed on us from every level. I do hope that at some stage I arrive home before 7:30 during this term. It would be nice to see the sun setting or to go for a walk and relax before dinner. I really need to rethink the whole work-life balance. I will...just as soon as my desk at work is clear...