WHAT MADE YOU GRIMACE & GRIT YOUR TEETH TODAY?

Thanks everyone for your kind/funny comments.

Take care JPB.

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Ooooooooooooooh, Sarah!

Bloody vandals!

Wouldn't you just like to catch them in the act?

I sooooo would, msolga!

I really wish I could just knock on their door and ask them why?

There was nothing to take? And the paving slab was from my own path, so it must have been difficult to get it up. I live in (outskirts) of whats considered to be a 'bad' area, lots of drug abuse and poverty...

I can only think someone was THAT desperate...

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... or else someone behaving very badly!

True...

(that's even worse - don't you think)

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Absolutely!
Anti-social hoons do stuff like that!

Do you have the cash to pay for the repairs?

As I suspected, I didn't get it. Oh well.
There's a lot more to this story, but right now I haven't the heart to tell.
I feel like I want to give this job application business a rest for a while.
I'm tired & pretty dispirited & really want a break.

[size=7]I'm typing this very quietly, as at this moment in time, I am inside one of Her Majesty's Prisons, and I don't want too many people to know I'm here, as they will all start finding an excuse to come in and chat.

Why do Prisons always smell of boiled cabbage and disinfectant?

The reason I'm gnashing my teeth today, is that I have to interview a particularly unsavoury character, which is a bad enough reason on its own, but the fact is, he has said all along that he won't attend any interviews appertaining to his Court case, so there is a 99% chance that my trip on the rush hour tube, followed by a train journey and then a long walk in the rain, may all be for nothing.
I have to be here though, just in case he changes his mind and decides to cooperate.
Nothing like running round in circles and disappearing up one's own arse, just to tick all the boxes for Court.

I am now gnashing, but very quietly........

PS.........I'm so sorry you didn't get the job, Msolga. They are obviously blind to your many qualities, and it is therefore their loss.
Keep your chin up, you Aussie person you.

Shhhhhhh.....I think someone's coming.[/size]

[size=7]Thought so! Total waste of time. I'm going to give it ten more minutes, and then I'm buggering off!

More quiet gnashing......[/size]

Lord Ellpus's tiny writing - yoiks!

Awww ms - that sucks...

Chin up though gorgeous, I am sure they were not worthy of you

Sheettttt, msolga - I'm sure, some will know your qualities. Soon, I hope.

That's hysterical

Sorry, msolga. I misread your earlier post, thinking you had gotten good news. I'm sure you'll find something soon.

Rotten luck msolga. (But then, if the administration couldn't see past interview nerves they may not have been great to work with. A perfect fit will come along.)

Damn!!!!


Yet the mortgage demands you keep going?


Can you put yourself on a relief teacher list? (You're gonna tell me you're already on it, I know.)


Going for jobs when you really need one sucks. It's bad enough when you have one and you're just kinda exploring.



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I hope today doesn't make me grimace etc, but yesterday did.


I have been fighting some damn bug for the last couple of weeks....yesterday, after improving, I woke up really ill again, and decided I really needed a day's rest.


So...I call work to cancel appointments.


As I am on the phone, a bunch of slats on my dumb slat bed decide to fall out, almost dumping me on the floor...and they are a bastard to put back.


The clerical person who answered is the least helpful, and it took her forever to get moving on cancelling my 9.30. In the end she gave me the number and I tried.

Couldn't get through.


Cursing and muttering, I ran downstairs to fly into work and see the people I couldn't cancel.

My starter motor is dying, but the car almost started twice, and I was too hyped to act fast enough to get it going. Then, it wouldn't start at all. I was about to call a taxi, but realised I was already late, and would likely not get a taxi for over half an hour, so I called work, and apologised over the phone to my clients, who had arrived. In a bit I have to go downstairs and see if I have a car that works, cos I am still too unwell to walk to work today, and it's gonna be hot.

I slept for hours, then tried to put my bed back together (which will slowly be a losing battle, as I damaged its structural integrity a couple of years ago by trying to move it too fast...it's a lightly made bed, and it's a long story, but it's true). I hurt my back and sustained major bruising during this process.

Then I decided to do a quick vacuum...and discovered that I really damaged my vacuum cleaner's handle...the bit that deals with all the electrics....when I was in a wee accident with it a while ago. It will have to go to the vacuum doctor. Then it gave me a startlingly painful electric shock.


And now I don't have a thing to wear.

msolga, rejection under any guise hurts and I really feel for you. I see though you say you're normally pretty good in interview situations, so you're most definitely one up of many of us.

I'm sure you'll sail through your next interview.

The only thing I'm gritting my teeth about today is that I lost at bridge. :wink:

Thanks for your kind thoughts, dearies. What a nice, supportive bunch you are.

But ... it wasn't the administration that was the cause of my frightful interview: It was someone I considered a friend! <sigh> A very complicated situation that has caused me quite a bit of heart-ache. I haven't the energy to go into the long, rambling story tonight (10 minutes to midnight) but I may, later. All things considered, it's probably for the best that I won't be working in that school. I just wish I'd followed my (usually impeccable) instincts & had given the interview a big miss! It felt like a very bad dream.

I am pleased to announce that today I am feeling much better!

Sorry to hear you had such a bad experience, but I'm glad you've brushed it off. You should consider a move to the States. We have a teacher shortage at the moment.

msolga, that's a whole new subject. Instincts. Goodness knows how we have them and where they come from, but if yours are generally impeccable then perhaps we should simply celebrate that we've got 'em.