At home to Mister Cock-Up

[caz963]

It was another bright day (mostly) today, but it's still a bit chilly out. I'd already designated today "work day", so I spent most of the afternoon inputting marks onto the school's data system which I can access from here. Mind you, it's not just a case of putting in a number. Nope, I had to write a comment for each pupil as well, along the lines of what we used to do for end of year reports. Fortunately, we don't have to do that every half term, but as the system has only been up and running since last term and last time, I did just put numbers in, I thought I should show willing this time and do a bit more.



Or I would have done, if the internet hadn't suddenly dropped out when I was about half way through the first class.

This has been happening on and off since around Friday, but each time I thought about phoning Sky to see what was up, it came back on and I didn't bother. But I did phone today and it turns out that there's something up at the local exchange and the BT are 'fixing it'.

Given my past experiences with BT, that phrase doesn't exactly fill me with confidence.

Still, I have teh interwebz now and I did managed to get the marking done. The only problem with having to use the internet to do it is that it's easy to open up lots of tabs and get distracted ;-)

But it's done, and the next job is to revise my seating plans. I've done most of them, but there's still one or two to do. I could have finished them, but after a few hours sitting at a desk, my back starts to ache, so I decided to pack up.

I've got some notes to type up and I want to try to get a head start on planning for the unit after next. As next half term is really short (5 weeks), I've got less time in which to get the planning done for the following units, so I plan to get a couple of weeks' worth of lessons written. Whether I actually DO it is another matter of course.


In other news - DW spoilers abound, but I'm not reading all of them. (I haven't even got round to reading the RT yet!) It's reached the point actually where there's not a lot of new info filtering through, and let's face it, we all know damn well that SM is keeping his cards close to his chest and that the DW team are generally pretty tight lipped about the really big stuff. So while I'm intrigued, I'm (at the moment) quite happy to wait to find out what the hell is going on. Whether I'll still be saying that at 7pm on the 23rd remains to be seen. Btw - is part 2 going out on the Sunday? I assumed it was, for some reason, but haven't seen a confirmation. As crossoverman indicates in comments, it's entirely possible (not to mention likely) that I've dreamed that one up.



I did squee a little bit at the description of the Last of the Time Lords and the Lonely Centurion - and at this pic -



Someone's already pointed out the absence of the "Cybus Industries" insignia on the chest plates. Are these then "original" Cybermen from Mondas/Telos?


And in a spectactular scheduling balls-up, Auntie is presenting us with two helpings of DT on the same day at the same time. Grrrrr... Thank gawd for the iPlayer.

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[develish1]

makes no sense at all does it?

I normally record and keep stuff like that too, so I guess this means I'll be recording United (I can record that the easiest) and just hoping someone else records Kafka and is willing to share

[caz963.livejournal.com]

The peeps at DTonTwitter are usually pretty good, but in any case, I'll probably snag it and post it somewhere.

[develish1]

I expect someone at tennant_love will probably be sharing too