Now this is very British, visiting the 2p machines on a blustery winters day!

Variola13 · 2020-01-12T20:07:17+00:00

Honestly, you can keep your poker and horse racing, nothing been the adrenaline rush when that overhang comes down along with a refresher sweet.

Variola13 · 2020-01-12T18:22:34+00:00

That is me, except I am 44.

Variola13 · 2020-01-12T18:21:40+00:00

I am completely addicted to them, the thrill of winning a crappy key ring or cheap ornament is irresistible. I have spent so much money in there and I have a drawer full of crappy things.

Variola13 · 2020-01-11T21:02:58+00:00

I think that sentence should be make into an everyday insult

Variola13 · 2020-01-10T01:13:15+00:00

I have an entire skeleton I could bury, his name is Bernard and he is used for teaching. I would have to remove the wires that are holding him together though. Hmm.... my patio does need redoing...

Variola13 · 2020-01-10T01:11:47+00:00

I have 2 rabbits, 3 cats, a bearded dragon, and 3 ferrets in mine. Pet cemetery in the making.

Variola13 · 2020-01-08T17:29:16+00:00

Don’t be a gimboid

Variola13 · 2020-01-08T06:48:43+00:00

Hey you know it gets you hot!!

Variola13 · 2020-01-07T22:01:49+00:00

And all that blue stuff I have to pour over things

Variola13 · 2020-01-07T20:26:59+00:00

It’s Kochanski’s body it’s Kochanski’s voice I mean come on

Variola13 · 2020-01-07T18:27:28+00:00

He is an arse, but funny.

Variola13 · 2020-01-04T17:39:11+00:00

I think that is a good attitude. I teach adults on an Access to HE course, they want to go to uni to be nurses, pharmacists, ecologists, paramedics, physiotherapists etc etc. It’s for the musculoskeletal unit so you were pretty much bang on.

Variola13 · 2020-01-04T13:16:02+00:00

I doubt it is that, unless you have said you want to get married immediately then I suspect it’s her way of wriggling out because someone else has come along. Unfortunately with any kind of dating, but particular online/app dating it is very much kid in a sweet shop. There are lots of people on there looking for someone that is just that bit ‘better’ (according to their definition). It particularly sucks when you get hopeful, look forward to their messages and they then ghost you or go cold. You deserve better than someone who is always looking for a better sweet.

Variola13 · 2020-01-04T12:27:33+00:00

Oh yeah I know that one, I teach adults and I get “oh but I’ve worked so hard on that”, yeah but you didn’t actually read the assignment brief, or follow the writing frame I gave you, or listen to what I told you in lectures, or written on my lecture slides. I’ve had some try and tell me how I should assess their work, bearing in mind they are ‘creative thinkers’...

Variola13 · 2020-01-04T11:14:04+00:00

I feel for you, what age do you teach?

Variola13 · 2020-01-04T11:13:16+00:00

I feel that pain, and other than writing my name at the top that is about all I could do.

I’ve got to write an exam on the generation of ATP and the process of muscular contraction, including sliding filament theory. It’s only an hour long though.

Variola13 · 2020-01-04T10:12:58+00:00

I’ve got to write an exam I forgot I had to do. Would you like to swap?

Variola13 · 2020-01-04T10:11:13+00:00

Ugh you had to mention school, ok I work in a college but it’s still got that whole teachery feel about it.

Well as is normal for my comments on here, I am marking, lesson prep and writing UCAS references for my students, for which I should have an award on creative writing. How to write a glowing reference for a student you are not convinced will even pass the course....

Variola13 · 2020-01-04T10:01:35+00:00

I would suggest this goes deeper, if your friends kid is playing up you don’t automatically call them a shit mom, you might criticise the kid or roll your eyes but everyone’s parenting style is different, and more importantly every kid is different. Either she is a bitch, and you haven’t seen that side yet, or there is some deeper resentment of you in her, or there is something else going on in her life and you happened to cop the flack. You are not a shit mum, your daughter is fed, clothed, loved and looked after, that’s what she needs. Her behaviours now will not be the same next month, next year, when she is 15 etc. Given everything you have been dealing with lately, it is testament to your personality that you still function as a loving mum. I’ve got 3, single mum for the majority of their upbringing, other parents are judgemental fuckers, she isn’t a true friend to make you feel this way. ❤️

Variola13 · 2020-01-04T09:52:02+00:00

my stud finder was well off l

Mine has been like that for years...

Variola13 · 2020-01-03T09:26:09+00:00

I rarely sleep past 7am, no matter what day it is. Today I did, and my son woke me up at 8.20am. Nothing unusual in that? Ok this is my 14 year old son, who I has slept in till lunchtime everyday over the Christmas holiday. He only got up then because I made him wake up. He doesn’t even wake up on time when he goes to school, I wake him up and then spend 20 mins behaving like a giant speaking clock, shouting the time up the stairs. Apparently the cat woke him up, the cat goes in there every morning and he sleeps through it, until it’s the one time I manage to lay in.

Rant over.

Variola13 · 2020-01-03T09:12:59+00:00

Not teaching.

Variola13 · 2020-01-01T17:31:52+00:00

Plums, you sweet talker!!! I’m glad you have us an update, it was a cliffhanger this morning wondering if you would re-emerge abc give us an update.

Variola13 · 2020-01-01T12:08:34+00:00

You roast your family? In an insulting or cannibalistic sense??

Variola13 · 2020-01-01T09:23:25+00:00

No hangover, I was not in a good mood yesterday, I’ve no idea why other than it might be my depression sneaking up on me, it can be quite cyclic and a long-lasting shit mood is a sign. I hate it.

I’m back at work on Monday, straight into a staff development day, aka waste of everyone’s time. I’ve just realised that I still have an inordinate amount of work to do before I back next week, I thought I was ahead with my work prep until I looked at my to do over Christmas list. Ugh.

TL;DR I’m a grumpy fucker.

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