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graculusYep, somehow it is December already. So much has changed over the past 12 months, though my state of mind is at least significantly more healthy than it was at the end of 2012. So that has to stand for something and who knows what 2014 will bring?
Work-wise, I had a delightful surprise the other day when I went into work expecting/dreading the idea of two long shifts with N (the subject of my previous post) only to find that she had been sacked! I was surprised too - since we only have a couple of weeks left of term and it's a term-time only job, I was fully expecting any change (if it actually happened) to take place then, thinking the path of least resistance was the likely way forward. So the major headache about the job I'm currently doing has been removed and now all I get to bitch about is the crazy hours. ;)
I think I've previously mentioned that I'm currently doing a course which gets me a preliminary qualification to teach adults - I'm particularly interested in doing basic literacy, numeracy and IT skills, though I'd need to do a further course to be fully qualified. I could also do an ESOL module and potentially look at teaching abroad if I was so inclined.
The only minor issue at present with my course is that in January I have to do a 30-minute teaching session to the rest of the group on a subject of my choice and am currently stumped as to subject. Don't you have an interest, I was asked? Hmm, I'm not sure a comprehensive knowledge of sexual positions and lube choices obtained via reading gay porn is necessarily what they're looking for. ;)
I also decided a few months back to put two of my current WiP on AO3 as I go along, in the hope that this would guilt-trip me into writing more. To nobody's great surprise, it really hasn't, though I'm sure the 3 people who actually read what I write are terribly disappointed. Yes, I am a terrible person. No, I don't really have an excuse; I could blame it on my crazy working hours, but that would be a lie. It's just laziness, pure and simple, and while I hate that this is the case, that doesn't stop it being true. All that stuff about 'a writer writes' just makes me think 'huh, I guess I'm not a writer then' because I just don't have that need to get things down in words a significant chunk of the time.
Work-wise, I had a delightful surprise the other day when I went into work expecting/dreading the idea of two long shifts with N (the subject of my previous post) only to find that she had been sacked! I was surprised too - since we only have a couple of weeks left of term and it's a term-time only job, I was fully expecting any change (if it actually happened) to take place then, thinking the path of least resistance was the likely way forward. So the major headache about the job I'm currently doing has been removed and now all I get to bitch about is the crazy hours. ;)
I think I've previously mentioned that I'm currently doing a course which gets me a preliminary qualification to teach adults - I'm particularly interested in doing basic literacy, numeracy and IT skills, though I'd need to do a further course to be fully qualified. I could also do an ESOL module and potentially look at teaching abroad if I was so inclined.
The only minor issue at present with my course is that in January I have to do a 30-minute teaching session to the rest of the group on a subject of my choice and am currently stumped as to subject. Don't you have an interest, I was asked? Hmm, I'm not sure a comprehensive knowledge of sexual positions and lube choices obtained via reading gay porn is necessarily what they're looking for. ;)
I also decided a few months back to put two of my current WiP on AO3 as I go along, in the hope that this would guilt-trip me into writing more. To nobody's great surprise, it really hasn't, though I'm sure the 3 people who actually read what I write are terribly disappointed. Yes, I am a terrible person. No, I don't really have an excuse; I could blame it on my crazy working hours, but that would be a lie. It's just laziness, pure and simple, and while I hate that this is the case, that doesn't stop it being true. All that stuff about 'a writer writes' just makes me think 'huh, I guess I'm not a writer then' because I just don't have that need to get things down in words a significant chunk of the time.
