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Waved goodbye to half the class as they went off on their residential trip, offered to do a long, boring computer admin job for the ICT teacher while the school is closed tomorrow (the National Union of Teachers is on strike), then promised to sort out a mind-numbingly huge quantity of photocopying for one of the teachers (before he skipped the county with the children) and have now been told I've got to spend half the day on a child protection course for which I've already borrowed and read the slides.  And all the people who should have been sharing the photocopying are part time and so will be spending their hours tomorrow on the course.

Any chance of a clone by tomorrow morning?  :)

by Sassafras on Wed Apr 23rd, 2008 at 02:08:38 PM EST
I'm supposed to be playing a 40 minute set tomorrow, for money, in front of an audience, and - as usual - I have absolutely no music written.

I'm probably going to have to mime. (Just don't tell anyone, okay?)

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Wed Apr 23rd, 2008 at 03:35:17 PM EST
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Damn.  You should have said earlier.  We could have organised a bus.  We could all have come, and we could have stayed over at your place and made a weekend of it and...

Oh...that's why you didn't mention it before...  ;)

by Sassafras on Wed Apr 23rd, 2008 at 04:15:30 PM EST
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Teachers strike?

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Wed Apr 23rd, 2008 at 03:50:53 PM EST
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But what are they thinking of - a strike on a Thursday? Why not make it Friday and it would be a nice long weekend for all concerned.

You know..even though I said goodbye to our stressed-out deputy head by reminding her that working unpaid all day tomorrow was missing the point...I might be a bit snarky if they got a long weekend and I didn't.

My own union is so well-organised that it called our strike during the school holidays.  I didn't go in.  But, oddly, nobody noticed.

by Sassafras on Wed Apr 23rd, 2008 at 04:11:06 PM EST
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