I teach your least favourite subjects at school, and I'm always attempting to improve my art, but generally at my own pace. I'm very, very, very happily married, and like cats and reading.
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You'll find that I'm a generally nice person. I say this not to sound conceited, but so that if I act otherwise, you know you've done something wrong.
Also, I'm an ex-weeaboo, so I can spot you other weeaboos from a mile away, you can't hide, you just fail.
displacement is x, y, z as far as I'm concernedposted Nov 30th 2009, 6:50PM
Mood: Cheerful
Music: 'Ramona Was a Waitress' by Paul Dempsey
So, so much for making any effort to upload things or keep in touch, gee Mel.
I realised there was news that I should have shared with people through a journal a few weeks ago, so let's amp it up a little first.
I've been a 'teacher' for a year, registered, but with very little work. I've had nothing permanent all year. I've had a couple of contracts, all of which were very difficult. I had quite a few interviews that stopped me from thinking I should just get a non-teaching job, but ultimately they all produced nothing. Constant hope rising and disappointment has left me very shaken.
For the last term I've been working at a school on the south/east side, and it's been going rather well and it's been very regular, but they haven't ever been able to guarantee me a position for next year. On a semi-whim, I applied for a senior english teaching position at a school in Bundaberg (400km/250miles north of where I live now). They liked what I had to say, and I started to take the thing seriously, which involved Rohan driving me there for an hour interview. Thing about Christian circles: small world. One of the teachers there used to be my science/maths teacher in grade 9. The head of secondary was Rohan's music teacher when he went to Bundy High. The principal used to play tennis with my mother before I was born, when my parents were still married and living in Dululu.
Which apparently they were intrigued by, resulting in a call back. I should point out, this is a Christian school, and I'm a Christian, and I realised that if I wanted this job, I needed to have my heart in the right place, and I had to realise everything I was getting with it. I was going to be a new place, with people I don't know, and would have to start my life again with Rohan to help me. I was going to be somewhere where people expected me to be Christian, where I would have constructive pressure to better myself professionally, spiritually and personally. So both Rohan and I went to the call back, and they interviewed us both...for 2 hours.
After a year of disappointment and effort and loss and low money and debt and searching...Bundaberg Christian College offered me a job. A reasonably paid teaching job, where there are good conditions, good resources, good facilities, good prospects for happiness.
I'm moving to Bundaberg to start a new life with Rohan, and we're very excited, I guess that's the short version.
last time we tried to get me in on role playing, I like...was asleep when you did it.
I am indeed still alive, I've moved to a different town and i'm working full time as a teacher. We only got internet a few days ago, so I've been a little invisible.
I think I played Vampires once, but now I'm in the alternative board games business. Any by business I mean I'm running a club of sorts through the school.
It's a school activity 'Thursday Afternoon Activities', and I got 30 kids which is the max one teacher can take. I've got Settlers of Catan, Carcasonne, Attika, Ticket to Ride, Bang, Citadels, Saboteur, Bohnanza, Modern Art, Manhattan and a Sudoku game. Basically they play board games for an hour and a half, and then next term they get to make their own game.
What are your chances of participating in the game this week?
As far as I know:
Kuru: most likely.
Wilson: most likely.
BTP: if he manages to get up in time.
Yume: ???
Bear/Gom: Totally.
We intend to play sometime around... 18-23, possibly this could be moved to somewhere in between 17-24. But for now...
The status and other formal rot is kept up to day on sup/tg/: click.
(New York is -5... You are +10, a total of +15, so 3:00 in the morning is 18:00 in the evening for you, yes?)
It isn't actually probable that the game will last so long this time, but the first session really did run for 6h.
well...6pm, Rohan is home by then, that'll be around the time that we have dinner. I don't know if I can commit to something that takes up the time I actually have with my husband. If it happened during the many spare hours I have during the day I'd have no problem...but I don't think I can commit to this, I'd be stringing you along if I said I could. I feel really bad about this.
Holly shit man: "We failed to stop him saving the world"!
That was convulent, epic, awesome and surprising at the same time. And what's even better - IT MADE SENSE while being all that.
I'm so glad you finished it. I really liked being able to read something with depth and not have confuse me at the same time. The end of Rorsharch got to me a lot I think, I never expected to see his 'face'.
So yeah, the movie is basically the same frame for frame, except the ending was changed to make it somewhat more consistent, and I forgive it for that.
Nearly right up to the end I was sure the person Jon was going to kill in the snow will be Veidt. I realised it was Rorsharch when we walked out on them. It was apleasent WTF feeling.
I don't actually read a lot of horror, but I should be reading more Barker and get into some Lovecraft. Have you read the graphic novel about Lovecraft? It's by graphic classics or something, it's a one shot.
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