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• May 15, 2009
• 13:29

  jojoeffe: Best Greek food and coffee - Odyssey, Townsville http://twitpic.com/59jcz

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  jojoeffe: Best Greek food and coffee - Odyssey, Townsville http://twitpic.com/59jcz
• 10:57

  jojoeffe: Another beautiful day in paradise :) going for a boat ride with Scotts and Kirsten and Iva (the boat).

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  jojoeffe: Another beautiful day in paradise :) going for a boat ride with Scotts and Kirsten and Iva (the boat).

• 7:36

  Up Close With Emmylou

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  Up Close and Emmylou by MarkOMeara
  

• 7:33

  Gabfest

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  gabbers by presta
  

  I have been listening to the Gabfest for a while now, and I would say that I know David, John and Emily’s voices pretty well. At some stage, I looked them up to see what they looked like and it was slightly odd to match them with their voices.

  All the same, I enjoyed this collection of photos from the recent live Gabfest.

  Lesson for the day - it’s nice to see people now and then, too.

• 7:28

  7w6d

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  You know, ultrasound scans of fetus' do play out just like in the movies. You are greeted by overly cheerful staff. Nice things are said. The lady with the fetus inside her lays on the bed-chair thing and is asked to expose her lower abdomen. The doctor (who isn't a gynecologist any more) squirts the gel stuff on, slides the wand over the bit of the lady's abdomen that the uterus should be around, and zeros in on a fetus. You can see everything on the screen of the ultrasound machine.
  
  And just like in the movies, you can see the heart beating.
  
  Yes, the fetus has a heart. It isn't just a mish-mash of cells that my body hasn't rejected yet. It's ALIIIIIIVE (cue images of Frankensteins Monster).
  
  To be honest, I was really shocked. In a good way, of course. I know things are really grim around here, and this grim-ness is an honest reflection of how I am approaching this whole thing. I am just assuming everything is shit until proven otherwise! Today it was proven that our fetus, the little thing inside my body as big as a grape right now, is alive.
  
  So.
  
  The bebeh* is alive.
  
  I don't mind too much that I feel exhausted every single minute of the day. I appreciate this too will pass. What I am sincerely hoping is that the penis/crazy sex dreams will stop, like, really soon. They can cease any time they like, in fact. Make of this confession what you will, but I think it's safe to say that my hormones are playing complete havoc with my brain.
  
  And now to the obligatory ultrasound picture, where polite folks go 'Oh! Look at that! What a nice...blob you have there!'. Etc. I've never been very good at making heads or tails of these images, but the bean shaped thing with a lighter smudge around where the heart ought to be is in fact my progeny.
  
  
  
  * The other day my eldest sister asked me if we were going to bring it up as 'anything'. Christian? Atheist? Satan worshipper? And I ses, 'Yes, lolcat'. My bebeh will believe in Ceiling Cat and Basement Cat, and will be taught that Caturday is a blessed day filled with cheezburgers. In fact, I wouldn't even mind too much if the bebeh was a lolcat. I think I can just make out some whiskers on that picture...

• 6:01

  My Recent Blather on Twitter

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  • We have groceries. The vacuuming is almost done. And soon I will take some stuff to the Op-Shop. So far, pretty good for a Saturday. #
  • I have been mildly industrious. Now I am feeling mildly tired. This will happen. #
  • Watching the first Narnia flick with Finn and Leila. Finn is a bit scared but very interested in the story and the battles. #
  • While Nicky slept, I spend a lovely afternoon with the kids watching a movie, reading a story, and then ignoring them as they played. #
  • While Nicky slept, I spent a lovely afternoon with the kids watching a movie, reading a story, and then ignoring them as they played. #
  • I don’t wish to talk down my children at all; I love them dearly. But I will be terribly glad when they go to bed in the next half an hour. #
  • The word that I thought was spelt “impune” is really “impugn”. At least it exists in some form. I was starting to wonder. #

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• May 14, 2009
• 21:42

  Comment on me and you by mikhela

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  That bottom photo made me laugh out loud – along with the phrase ‘her commitment to wearing undies’.

• 19:58

  Comment on Journal Writing by Mark O'Meara

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  This give me even more hope that I am doing something useful.

• 19:52

  Comment on Journal Writing by Fiona

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  I can still vividly see my Year 10 English teacher’s handwriting, noting the difference between “affect” and “effect” on a piece of journal writing. The fact that he cared or even bothered to write a sentence by way of example for each has forever changed how much care I take in writing and spelling. It just raised the bar when I didn’t even realise there was a bar!

• 19:42

  Clean Dishes

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  Clean Dishes by MarkOMeara
  

  It’s easier to feel calm about the evening once the dishes are done.

• 19:37

  Journal Writing

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  journal writing on the train by tonyduckles
  

  I feel like I am getting a lot of mileage out of this business of having my students writing for fifteen minutes at the start of every session. It is a bit of work coming up with suitable interesting topics and a bit more work correcting it all.

  For all that this is work, I can see an improvement in lots of the writing after just four weeks. And it means I can target my grammar and writing lessons to where they are most needed.

  This week we did an exercise about some commonly confused words and spelling. It’s easy to say that students should know this by Year Ten. But lots of them didn’t and I probably wouldn’t have known that without seeing all this writing. And next week, there will be a sheet about separating independent and dependant clauses with a comma. Not rocket science but, based on much of the writing, definitely needed.

  Lesson for the day - there is a lot to be said for a fat pile of evidence.

• 18:56

  jojoeffe: Landed

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  jojoeffe: Landed