Buckwheat

I am not sure if bootcuts make my legs look longer or not, but yesterday's shopping made me sad in that I got another confirmation I gained some weight recently. One size up compared to what I used to buy.

Yay, pie! Coincidentally, I just bought the first pair of bootcut jeans today after years of buying skinny jeans. If the bootcut jeans are coming back into fashion ... after hey were fashionable when I was in my teens ... does that mean ... that I am old? *shudders* That is what is the most scary about this Halloween picture.

Happy the Day After Whatever You Celebrated In The Past Few Days! I still have the days until Monday off ... so obviously I am in the library right now, working on the dissertation. Such is life. But I think I am going to take the next few days off more. I need to go shopping for new shoes and clothes too (some things I usually wear are falling apart). And tomorrow I am going on a short day trip, if the weather will permit it.

Hey, what did you do to the ghost? That is terrible.

I went to the quiz and joined a group of teachers from the other school, turns out I sorta kinda knew one of them. It was nice after all, but the questions were ... absolutely not what I expected, and we ended almost the last. Way too many questions about Star Trek, Pokemon and some video games. None on ASOIAF, Zamonia, Neverending Story, Artemis Fowl and other stuff I expected. So yeah.

I am thinking of doing that, although it doesn't sound too appealing to be mixed with some other group like a third wheel. None of my coworkers seem to be interested. (There were a few of them present at the last one, which was history themed.)

Hello all. I bring some creepy crawlies. https://i.imgur.com/DCOx4iL.png

Well, it is definitely not as entertaining as reading Good Omens. It is mostly frustrating. Damn.

I haven't lived with a partner before, but I am glad the work reduces once you do. In other news, three work days and then I have a week off, yay. Also, there is a quiz in the local bookshop on Friday and the topic is fantasy/sci-fi literature and films. I really want to go, but sadly I don't have a team to go with.

I did wonder about that.

If I must ... Booooooooo!

I have read Good Omens a few times, but the translation into Slovene, which is very good. Now I started reading a rare Slovene fantasy book, I am not yet far enough into it to really form an opinion. The prologue and the first few chapters are really confusing, but now some information have started to show. But I also have a whole pile of students' tests to read through, and in the coming week, I will have even more of those, so I don't know how much motivation I will have to left to read anything.

Past Buckwheat has had ideas that were later proven to be stupid before. But anyway, the day is over and all in all, I cannot complain about early starts in this school year, since I don't start this early most of the days. Prague is nice indeed, I visited once years ago with my family. I need to read this. At some point. The to be read list in my mind is ever growing and there is never enough time to read through it, and I just keep switching priorities on what to read next.

This sounds like a very nice and relaxed vacation. I am starting with very busy couple of weeks because there are tests to put together and to grade, starting tomorrow, as well as parent talks tomorrow etc. I am going to have a week off at the end of the month, though.

Well, we all survived and safely arrived back from the school trip. There were some hiccups caused by traffic, but all in all, everything was okay. I am looking forward to not get up that early tomorrow, though.

*pokes thread* I had to get up waaaay too early today. And need to get up even earlier tomorrow because of a school trip that leaves at 7. I organised that trip. I hate past-me for doing that. Why was I so stupid? In other words, work is busy.

I think it is not as horrible as you are describing it after all. Teenagers are mostly still behaving well, yay.

Hmph. The days are so much shorter now that even when I don't start at the earliest possible time, it is still not completely light outside. Today I left home some time after 7 and it was cloudy and not sunny yet at all. It is also much colder. I don't like it much.

I actually took a few years of French in secondary school. I mostly remember grammar and writing, but cannot really understand spoken French because I never practised that a lot. I imagine Latin would be somewhat easier in connecting the spelling to the pronunciation. But I don't know about all the declensions and cases, although, as a speaker of a Slavic language, at least I know what those are and what they are used for.

I already know Slovene, German and English. I wanted to take Latin at university, but all the classes clashed with my mandatory ones, so that wasn't possible, so I still want to try learning that at some point. Obviously the problem is, there aren't many courses for that. Apart from Latin, I would want to try Finnish. Sadly I haven't seen any courses offered for that either. Why these two? Latin because it is the root of a lot of modern European languages and just to see if it is really that hard as they say. Finnish fascinates me since I made a good friend from Finland during my Erasmus semester - the language is so different from the other European ones (and yet, the pronunciation rules actually look pretty simple for me). Neither of these languages would be useful in my day to day life in any way.

What about people who work from home? This was an eventful weekend! Way too short, I have to go to work tomorrow morning again, meh.

Welcome back.

That sounds ... passive aggressive. Why? In Slovene, using the unit "dozen" sounds very outdated. Nobody uses that as a unit of anything that I know of anymore. Even if things are sold in packages of 12, you would probably say "twelve eggs" than "a dozen eggs". In other news, we finished the meeting at work faster than I expected, which I am happy about.

Terrible. I don't know how people who use English in their day-to-day life can communicate anything at all.

I am not sure what King Lear has to do with it, but sure I can spam more. Yes, that is what I tried to convey - there were just over 20 teenagers in the group I was responsible for. (And a lot more of them in the other group the other teacher was responsible for.) It is. I am lucky enough that my particular group of teenagers is generally quite responsible and they haven't done anything particularly outrageous in the two years I've taught them ... yet. *knocks on wood* In fact, I would find it much scarier to have to be responsible for younger children. At least the almost-grown-ups don't need micromanaging making their beds, getting dressed for the weather and activity, knowing what time it is etc. They mostly know how not to get lost and come to the right place at the time they were told to, and they are much more independent and able to problem solve on their own.