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Grrr. 'Awayday' tomorrow. Whither this, whither that. Exercises in trust. Management games and exercises. Indifferent lunch. Stupid coffee breaks with embarrassing chat unavoidable. A presentation on 'e-learning' (I know that, I can go on to f-learning now!). Early start. Late finish. Grrr.  My sympathies. Ours is next week. It's those bar stewards in Human Remains who try to justify their existence by setting these days up. When will they realise that a good old-fashioned RANT and RAGE would do infinitely more good... |
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« Reply #2431 on: 10:03:51, 12-07-2007 » |
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« Reply #2432 on: 12:04:42, 12-07-2007 » |
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Sometimes they provide lunch if it is very long. Poor TP also has to seat through so many of meetings learning something etc. Now here in one of the vocational schemes where most violinsts are teaching (not pianists that teach at home or students homes) the new thing is to register on line. That means that any student can see their teacher schedule and book his time. That also means that old students might not have time if they are late and the teacher has no say who he/she teaches. Fortunately I have nothing to do with any organization (which has its own minuses). Somehow everything passes, the functions will pass too.    |
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« Reply #2433 on: 12:19:20, 12-07-2007 » |
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Grrr...our college just LOVES wasting people's time. The recently closed the gate nearest me (that I would have regularly used) and opened a new one 200 meters away around the corner, to the benefit of absolutely NOBODY that I can see (the other gate was directly in front of the commuter train station, and there's nothing being done with the area where the old gate was). Grrrr.
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« Reply #2434 on: 11:56:08, 13-07-2007 » |
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I'm not one who usually cares about the weather. So I'm surprised to look out and experience a sinking feeling - it's raining again! That's all night and all day for weeks on end. I don't remember a summer this wet for a very long time, if at all. For those of us who have children on school holidays and dogs to exercise, it's getting really tedious.  Still, grateful for small mercies, we haven't as yet had any severe flooding. |
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« Reply #2435 on: 14:31:09, 13-07-2007 » |
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We recently had one and three-quarter days without rain! Astonishing. However, back to normal now, the lawn is like a green sponge, and everything is growing too much. I worry in a minor way about barn owls. They don't fly in the rain, so can't hunt, so will starve . |
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« Reply #2436 on: 14:54:06, 13-07-2007 » |
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Mary,
Can you leave them out some scraps of meat disguised as mice?
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« Reply #2437 on: 15:24:01, 13-07-2007 » |
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Mary,
Can you leave them out some scraps of meat disguised as mice?
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Doesn't work. These creatures are not easily conned. I remember trying to fool my friend's python with a bit of steak on some string - batting it about to make it think it was alive. No joy of course. In the end we went out and bought it a live mouse from the pet shop. Oh the heartbreak at the time!!!!!  We cried all afternoon - having gone to the cinema so we didn't have to watch it happen. However, this did have a happy ending because the snake wouldn't eat it. She took it to the zoo for advice and they told her it wasn't hungry at the time and they only eat once every few months anyway. She sold it after that. The little boy who came over here to play yesterday was telling us about his three lizards and he feeds them live crickets apparently. Oh dear. |
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« Reply #2438 on: 15:28:00, 13-07-2007 » |
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I worry in a minor way about barn owls. They don't fly in the rain, so can't hunt, so will starve . That's curious/interesting Mary. Sounds like evolution has been a bit silly. But I suppose it gives the vole/fieldmouse population a bit of a chance, who presumably have the attitude, 'Ooh lovely, look, it's raining. Let's go out!' |
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« Reply #2439 on: 17:29:18, 13-07-2007 » |
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Speaking of which...it is still raining! It hasn't let up all day. I just turned off In Tune in the car because it suddenly let out a blast of "Lady be Good" and I'm just not in the mood. Grrrrrrrrrrrr
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« Reply #2440 on: 17:56:12, 13-07-2007 » |
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However, this did have a happy ending because the snake wouldn't eat it. She took it to the zoo for advice .
For a moment or two I had a vision of the snake showing the mouse to an expert at the zoo and saying, "What do you suggest I should do with this?" Still raining here, too. |
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« Reply #2441 on: 18:08:26, 13-07-2007 » |
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RAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!
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« Reply #2442 on: 18:15:37, 13-07-2007 » |
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Rain here too. It was dry at lunchtime but now it's pouring.
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« Reply #2444 on: 18:19:29, 13-07-2007 » |
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However, this did have a happy ending because the snake wouldn't eat it. She took it to the zoo for advice .
For a moment or two I had a vision of the snake showing the mouse to an expert at the zoo and saying, "What do you suggest I should do with this?" Yes, so did I, Mary! |
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