that lives in the heart of a bluebird

27/10/21 17:20
furiosity: (kakashi is a copy ninja)
The OTHER nice thing about sports day being at the venue near my house is that I don't have to go to school tomorrow; I can just turn up directly at the venue when my work hours start (I'll be there 15 minutes before that, obviously). My main job is to take pictures of the kids using my digital camera, which is now charging after being completely unused since like 2017.

AND I get to wear sweats, which... I don't think I have ever worn sweats to work. Even when I worked shipping/receiving in a frozen food warehouse back when I was putting myself through uni, jeans were the absolute most casual option, Plus, they were kind of required all year round because it was frickin freezin in there, Mr. Bigglesworth.

Anyway, today is upper body day and I bought some super weird basil and tomato bread for after.
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  • Music Bob Crosby - Happy Times
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and you'll find a happy time

25/10/21 18:42
furiosity: (books)
I have been stressing out a lot about the mandatory semi-annual fire safety inspection in my building (they take disaster preparedness very seriously where I live) because even though they don't actually enter the apartments, the inhabitants are expected to be present, and of course it is during work hours. Normally it wouldn't be an issue, but it's on the same day as my school's sports day, and I was having to choose between Work Duty and Civic Duty and I was leaning towards Work Duty. I want to support the kids and sports day is only once a year, whereas there will be another inspection in 6 months.

Turns out they're holding the sports day offsite at a venue that is literally a 5 minute walk from my house, across the street from my supermarket, so I'll be able to be there for almost all of it AND I'll have time to get groceries on my way home before the inspection window opens. \o/

My ESO semi-prog raid got cancelled yesterday so I finally put my loose furnishings into their appropriate homes (I put things into thematically appropriate properties, so Telvanni crap goes into the Telvanni mushroom tower, Imperial stuff goes to Linchal Grand Manor etc) and then I picked Epistory back up! I had accidentally endgamed it years ago without visiting all the locations/getting all the achieves, so I'll be mopping those up before I start Nanotale. These games are such treasures and true gifts to humankind.
  • Mood cheerful
  • Music Bob Crosby - Happy Times
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hisz mindig van remény, hinni kell, ó hidd hát el

22/10/21 19:01
furiosity: (elrond smith and friends)
I just finished ordering things for Christmas! I'm not doing full on gifts to family overseas friends this year because I, uh, C A N ' T - there is currently no way to mail anything from Japan to Canada that isn't a letter. The restriction's been in place since May, and though I had hoped it'd be lifted in time for the holidays, at least for surface mail, but alas.

On one hand, it means I'll be well over budget this holiday season, on the other hand, I always really look forward to the gift choosing & wrapping. I'll just have to be content with making my usual boxes of stickers to give to all my students (one box per class) and I guess I could come up with something for the teachers... though that means I'm gonna need more mini boxes, oops. Though, I might actually get pre-printed decorative boxes for coworkers; they're slightly more expensive but it'll save wrapping time.
  • Mood accomplished
  • Music Máté Péter - Most élsz
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de addig van remény, minden perc ünnepel

21/10/21 20:38
furiosity: (brian wasn't invited to the party)
I'm Done. The worksheets are out, the clues are up, my seminar prep is complete, the offsite meeting has concluded and left me feeling a little more hopeful about certain things than I did going in, though I can't seem to find my off switch.

I guess I'll look for it again after the seminar tomorrow, but man, being SUPER busy and having loads to do for a while sure does a number on you. When it's all sorted out, you're kind of like John Travolta in that one gif, going all "what do".

But no worries, I'll have a brand new to do list on Monday, and Christmas is just around the corner now. 😏 And I really need to update that YT sign-up after I get home from work tomorrow, it's literally blank rn (oops).
  • Mood discontent
  • Music Máté Péter - Most élsz
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sajnos vége lesz, tudjuk már a kezdetén

19/10/21 20:03
furiosity: (hisagi)
I finished the prep for my schoolwide Halloween scavenger hunt today!! Now I just have to get the worksheets distributed to all of the kids. It's a really basic double puzzle -- the kids have to find scrambled Halloweeny words posted up at various areas in the school buildings (students are not allowed to roam about the school freely, so the clues had to be in common areas only). They have space to record the scrambled words on the sheet and then space to unscramble them; some of the letters of the unscrambled words are numbered, and, when arranged in order, spell out a message. The first kid from each class to find me and tell me the secret message will get a cute Halloween masking tape; everybody else will get a cute Halloween sticker, and of course it's entirely voluntary. Cheap and cheerful. :D

I wish I could do something like that at the elementary school, too, but I just do not. Have. Time. I have ~150 short compositions to grade by Thursday, an offsite meeting on Thursday afternoon, and an online seminar where I'll be moderating/facilitating on Friday. And no sooner will I wrap the Halloween stuff than it's time to prep for Christmas activities and events.

It's persimmon season and persimmons are everywhere, but all I can think about is watermelon.
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