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Jan. 29th, 2004 09:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hathycolSnow update: buggar all in Ormskirk, which is also freezing. I had great fun skating over the puddles in the park that have dogged my way ever since about October. Some snow in college land, but mostly it's just packed ice.
*wails*
Hutton Report: Was Lord Hutton actually there for the hearing? I have no more to say about that, because otherwise I'm going to get angry again.
So, last night. The Big St Bedes Reunion And Bar Crawl... or not.
What did we do instead?
Well, firstly we all turned up. I was fairly dressed up for me, and I was wearing these cream pants. Everyone else was in black. Stating the obvious slightly, but it was like being in school again - a slight terror that you're Not Being Right.
But, yeah. School. Wow. It's so SMALL! It seemed vaguely wrong, actually - out of proportion. Teeny tiny and too high.
I never realised quite how bad the choir and orchestra were before, and I beg forgiveness from all who may have suffered them. Ouch.
The speeches... oh, god, the speeches. 33 minutes it took for Entwhistle to wind up and finish. 33 minutes in which we were consistently referred to as Boys And Girls, or even worse, Youngsters. I found this amusing, bearing in mind that 4 of us had full-time jobs, at least three people were engaged, one was already a proud mother of one and two more were 3 or four months along. (The things you LEARN!) And besides, he hardly mentioned us. He ranted about OFSTED, about tables (and then talked about how well we were doing in them!) and all kinds of crap, and very little of rewards. It was all bollocks, and it had the same reaction I always get - desperately anti-Catholic, angry at education and generally wanting to stand up and shout "WANKER!" The next guy was just sycophantic.
Then the awards themselves. Huzzah. They read us out in big groups. We went on the stage. We got the awards. We went away again.
Couldn't even go out to the pub - it finished too late! NOOOOOO!
So I went home and felt miserable and angry. What a waste of time.
And now I will go and do my key skills. Eeeep.
~Hathy_Col~
*wails*
Hutton Report: Was Lord Hutton actually there for the hearing? I have no more to say about that, because otherwise I'm going to get angry again.
So, last night. The Big St Bedes Reunion And Bar Crawl... or not.
What did we do instead?
Well, firstly we all turned up. I was fairly dressed up for me, and I was wearing these cream pants. Everyone else was in black. Stating the obvious slightly, but it was like being in school again - a slight terror that you're Not Being Right.
But, yeah. School. Wow. It's so SMALL! It seemed vaguely wrong, actually - out of proportion. Teeny tiny and too high.
I never realised quite how bad the choir and orchestra were before, and I beg forgiveness from all who may have suffered them. Ouch.
The speeches... oh, god, the speeches. 33 minutes it took for Entwhistle to wind up and finish. 33 minutes in which we were consistently referred to as Boys And Girls, or even worse, Youngsters. I found this amusing, bearing in mind that 4 of us had full-time jobs, at least three people were engaged, one was already a proud mother of one and two more were 3 or four months along. (The things you LEARN!) And besides, he hardly mentioned us. He ranted about OFSTED, about tables (and then talked about how well we were doing in them!) and all kinds of crap, and very little of rewards. It was all bollocks, and it had the same reaction I always get - desperately anti-Catholic, angry at education and generally wanting to stand up and shout "WANKER!" The next guy was just sycophantic.
Then the awards themselves. Huzzah. They read us out in big groups. We went on the stage. We got the awards. We went away again.
Couldn't even go out to the pub - it finished too late! NOOOOOO!
So I went home and felt miserable and angry. What a waste of time.
And now I will go and do my key skills. Eeeep.
~Hathy_Col~
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