I often wish that I could be more like that.
When I do get up and don't have to be anywhere, I work really well in the morning but for some reason I find it much easier to stay up until the early hours and get up late. Maybe I should just try going to bed earlier... Now there's a thought.

I found it easier to go to bed earlier and get out of it earlier when there was someone I loved in it. Nothing to do with sex (wipe that smirk off your face!) and I'm not being self-pitying here (well maybe a little bit) but I really did find that I became a different person in terms of sleeping habits during those long summers we had together. In fact, I have never been happier than I was during those periods of my life. I now look forward to the times when I can experience that with someone else.

Hmm. Get a grip.

I'm at my most creative at night - despite being tired I can come up with my best teaching ideas at midnight eg imaginative worksheets to inspire the kids. After being scared by that earthquake at 1am I then couldn't sleep - so I drew a wonderful thermometers worksheet for maths the next day! It amused them when I told them that.

Of course I'm dreadful at getting up in the mornings - I think I need a 26 hour day/night...

 

That serpent in the Garden of Eden knew what he was doing.  He must have been the originator of the menage a trois! (As well as everything else he's supposed to be responsible for.....)

I've been feeling something like at the end of my tether for most of the weekend.
Emotionally drained.
I've also been juggling a whole load of Durham coursework and I've just applied for another job - shhhh!
I need to sleep now but I've got a shed load of marking to get done tomorrow and some coaching of an ensemble in the afternoon. I think I was evil in another life.
Night all.

Hmmm. I have now been told by BT that BB is "now active" on my phone line. So I'm sitting here looking at the hub and having distinct misgivings about takiing the plunge and sticking the disc in.  Will the Mortmuda Triangle strick again? Considering that yet another appliance gave up the ghost on me yesterday I'm not sure that I like the odds. Gulp.

I have an interview tomorrow.  The first interview I've ever had.  For a marketing job.  Gross, eh?

I keep on wondering if there are 'illegal interview questions', like there are in america.  Several recruitment agencies have asked me for my age, asked if I had a criminal record, one even took my photograph when I walked in (they did ask though: I should have refused, of course).  Can't find anything about it on the web though.

I'm surprised you're astounded, strin. I was certainly told years ago that a CV was no good without it, although perhaps times have changed. Then there are the stories of how all applications from people aged over 40 are immediately binned. How do they know they're over 40? In any case, all jobs I've applied for recently require you to account for everything you've done since you were 16, with dates. They can easily work out your age from that.

As for questions that are not allowed, the only other one I know of is whether you belong to a union. But I find it common that application forms require you to attach a recent photograph.

I do admire people who change careers as I've always found that they want people with some experience in the first place. And people who manage to get a job abroad have done very well, I think, in the cases where visas or work permits are required.