An exciting development in my work life this week, as I was actually able to finish writing a to-do list. Up until this point, the to-do list just finished when the space ran out and not everything was on it. This week, that list had an end! I didn't reach it. But it was there. If everything goes to plan, I might be able to have next Saturday as a full day without any work. This is overwhelmingly exciting. I can tell you that my last such day was August 17th.
Workwise this week, I have been working on a task for another exam board, after applying for a side hustle with them; chipping away at a poor version of the first part of my dissertation, which I shame-facedly submitted even though I felt it was awful; writing a paper, or trying to; and marking Y8 books for the first time in a number of years. This last task has been more of a pleasure than I was expecting. I haven't taught that year group for a while and I love the curriculum; I'd also forgot how exciting it is when you start to see those first whispers of them understanding the point of what you're doing. I saw the week out at an assembly some of our sixth formers did on colonisation and language. Even thought I didn't teach them any of the content that they shared in the assembly, I felt immensely proud because I feel like our curriculum gave them the skills and motivation to go and find out more. This is the sort of thing that reminds me why I'm in the job.
Just when I think I'm getting out, they pull me back in.
No reading has taken place but Mr Z and I are now at the end of series 3 of The Wire, which is technically a rewatch but I never got past the middle of series 4 and Mr Z can't remember much. It's such smart drama and so interesting to watch story arcs unfold over a number of episodes. Dominic West's accent though...ooft. You can sort of tell they had no money for actors in the first series or they wouldn't have cast so many Brits.
While watching, I've been knitting the Christmas jumper and have divided for the sleeves and done the collar, but it's cooling off for a bit while I try to churn out a second unicorn jumper for Nibling number 2. I am seeing them for trick or treating in just under a fortnight so I have quite the deadline. Hoping I can get through the last ten rows of colourwork tomorrow and then it's plain knitting for the rest of the week.
I went to see Nicola Sturgeon at her book tour talk in Bath on Thursday. One of those that I was not especially drawn to, but I felt like I had to hear her, yknow? She was as charismatic as you'd expect a successful politician of 37 years' experience to be and even spent some time talking about her favourite books, which I loved, of course.
Can't believe we're already this far through October. It was fully dark by 7pm tonight. I had a pumpkin spice latte today from a local cafe and it was actually nice (I cannot cope with the sugary chemical flavour of the Starbucks version). Tomorrow, I might even don some tights. We'll see. Maybe I will try to make it to half term bare-legged.
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