The Delema

I am in a bit of a pickle at the moment. I really want to do the one year graduate teaching diploma so I can become a secconary teacher in biology. The problem with this is that I am in my first year of a masters and don't quite know what my grades are going to be like and if I will even be able to carry on with the whole thing, apparently if you fail two papers they don't let you carry on. Since two of my exams didn't go too well I am kinda buggered I think. I have faculty staff giving me projects left right and center and have taken on tutorial work and more demonstrating. So I am busier than ever but I think now I have decided that I am going to do teaching next year because I loved taking the tutorials so much, it was great. I even got the class talking, which for this class is quite hard to do. Yay for being a teacher.

What a cool weekend

On friday night Jemma and tim came over and we had a bbq and chatted about stuff untill I got too tired and had to go to bed. Then I worked on Saturday but felt really really old. I've worked out that I am the oldest person there and I am really begining to feel it. I just feel really out of it when I'm at work as I want to help the customers and everything but when everyone around you doesn't give a crap its hard to want to yourself. If you get my drift.

The wonderful Hamilton City Council have made a new bus route called the orbiter. This is generally a good idea but when you finish work on a saturday at 4pm and the bus finishes at 4pm also, and the bus driver says that the last bus is still coming and your waiting in the cold for it, it gets really frustrating when it doesn't come. Grrrr to that bus driver.

But I just rang my friend Tanya and she came to get me anyway. We both have essays to mark and found one girl that has practicall copied and pasted all of her essay from the internet. I feel bad for her. She failed the CUP course (pre-1st year, kind like 6th and 7th form bio) and shouldn't really be doing first year but I can't really do anything about it. I feek a bit stink tho.

I went to my bosses house after that for a going away party and had a few drinks and got to know my work mates a bit better. But still felt old.

Sunday was washing day and the first day in about 6 months when it didn't actually rain in Hamilton! So I think I washed practically everything we own. We went to the supermarket and saw James Hutton there. It was so wierd as we thought he was in India or some where being a missionary or something. Apparently he's now engaged and moving to Hamilton, from Gordonton in the new year. Random indeed.

I have been asked to do some tutorials for the Bio101 paper and I get to do my first one on Thursday with the course co-ordinator sitting in. I'm a little nervous but I think I can handle it. I've also been asked to do some extra labs and things so I am going to be very busy over the next week.

Any who must go to the gym now, I think its step mix tonight and as long as I don't fall over it should be fine. Its so tempting to just go home though. Sigh.

I am hopeless

Hey there everyone that reads my blog. I havn't blogged in ages and I blame the Masters exam peoples. I was in this black hole of exam-ness and could not get out untill two weeks ago.
I am now in the lab supposedly working on my cells that don't want to grow and doing my research proposal, which incidentally I don't want to do! No suprises there.

I am still at Glassons but the whole structure has changed with people leaving as well as our sales structure change. I've become a little complacent about the whole thing I think and am not as driven as I was when I had to make a target. At least its taken some of the pressure off I suppose.

I've just been given 70 essays to mark for my BIOL101B class. Its only supposed to take 15min per essay to read and mark but I think it will be more like 60min/essay. Yay what a fun weekend of marking and working for me.

I don't actually think we are doing anything this weekend bar working, unless Rick has planned something I don't yet know about and he thinks he's already told me. Woops I am doing something on Saturday, I am going to burger fuel for a farewell party, odd place to have it as we will all be dressed up for town afterwards, smile and nod.

Any who WW tonight, wish me luck!!!