Quote of the 'Week'

"Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all."
Voltaire
Discovering that someone has commented on one of my blogs is such a joyous feeling. Hint, bloody hint!

Saturday 22 May 2010

Sunday 9 May 2010

Tuesday 4 May 2010

In summary: I need to get my act together.

I'm blessed with having a four day weekend. Monday is a May Day bank holiday, and Tuesday is some special teacher assessment thing, I think. So I go back on Wednesday, which is pretty cool. However, my brain can't really cope with this mini-school holiday.

I have two general levels of industriousness - school level, which is the type I have at any time other than school holidays; and school holiday level, which is the type I have during the school holidays. The latter is significantly lesser than the former, but there is little mental plasticity available when I encounter a situation that requires a level of industriousness halfway between school and school holiday.
I encounter an extended weekend, and the lazy side of me overrides the responsible, hard-working side. My brain officially switches to school holiday mode, which means that my mind is preparing for a period of rest much longer than the period allotted.

It is now the small hours of Tuesday morning, so I have just entered the final quarter of the weekend - but God help me! I'm stranded in the mindset of a school holiday-goer, and as a result I haven't got any work done!
I'm just going to have to find some other time to cross off all the things on my to-do list, because I have literally done nothing since last Friday.

So that's my confession. Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned, etc, etc.

Bye bye, now.

Saturday 1 May 2010

BRIAN BLOODY BLESSED!

I'm going to intersperse this blog with more anecdotes, little stories and musings about my day. It seems more like the kind of thing that should be in a blog; my entries tend to read more like a column in The Guardian or something. Not that I'm complaining about that - I'll still do those on occasion - but I feel that I should make this blog a bit more personal, a bit more up-to-date and relevant to recent occurances in my own life.

For example, today I was at school, and there was a two-hour period where I didn't have any lessons. I was sat in the common room, getting slightly bored. So I got the old laptop out, and mow me down and call me a haystack if I didn't find what I believe the youngsters today call an 'internet gem' on the BBC website.

Five words, people, five words. Well, four words and a number. Well, four words and a Roman numeral.

BRIAN BLESSED AS HENRY VIII.

Yes. Yes yes yes yes yes fucking yes. Yes.
Yes.
Just... yes.
And then I played the video, and my excitement was magnified further. It is just marvellous. It is essentially an excuse to film BRIAN BLESSED hamming it up, shouting and acting like a bearded child, and because it's BRIAN BLESSED, of course it's the epitome of magnificence.

Oh, just go and watch it. Now. Bye.
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