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The trials and excitement of house moving

May

2013

We have a new house — and yes, this time we own it. This is a big thing for me, and for my wife and family, and naturally we’re very happy about it. First of all though is the little matter of moving house! It’s only a very small move in terms of distance, but ...

NRL tonight

Mar

2013

Well the less said about Wests performance tonight the better…. 26-0? I mean, I know Manly is good, but oh dear. And Wests play Melbourne next week… In other news, I found out I was “this close” to winning another writing competition/fellowship thing, but was a finalist and fell just short again. Then I found ...

End of a big week

Mar

2013

Now that’s the end of a long, big week. It was never tough per se, but it was long, and busy, and tiring, and now that it’s over I just want to make sleep the highest priority! Got the Google Teacher application in, am seriously looking at one other job related thing, and loads of ...

Getting help after you’ve given help

Feb

2013

Nice thing happened today — as I mentioned yesterday I’m putting together a little video for my application to the Google Certified Teacher program. I decided it had to ben done in the media publications class, which is after all where I do my most directly “teacherly” work. And the class were so good about ...

Professional Development

Feb

2013

Unsurprisingly, I am looking at whatever I can to stay relevant in my job and improve my chances of more work now and in the future. There’s a few different routes I’m taking. I just completed a TAFE course at the end of last year and got the certificate today. Known very generically as “Certificate ...

Three years today

Feb

2013

I realised it’s my third work anniversary today. Three years to the day since I started working at Coonabarabran High School. It’s the longest lasting full time job I’ve ever had. (Let that one sink in). And I’m not bored at all. I don’t want “a change”. I don’t feel the need to leave any ...

Change the world, or change your world?

Feb

2013

It might sound like a meaningless distinction, but I think it matters. Do you try to change everything in the world, or even everything in your field of expertise, or do you just change what is closest to you, what is manipulable by you, what is within your reach? I see this a lot online ...

Just to let you in on a secret

Feb

2013

Secret? Well, I hope not! I wrote 2000 words tonight…. An hour and a bit burst only. Very impressed with the effort If I go quiet here for a reason I will be busy! Share this:TwitterFacebookEmailLike this:Like Loading...

An amusing turn of events

Jan

2013

The middle day of a long weekend is supposed to be one where you don’t get much done, but I feel as if I made some use of it… So much Twitter conversation today, which does feel productive most of the time. I made a small reply to US author Joe Hill about US gun ...

On (my) writing

Jan

2013

Is it a time-management problem? Or a motivation problem? Most of the time I think it’s very hard to say. I have not been writing as much recently as I would ideally like. Coming off the year I had last year, that’s probably not particularly surprising. There was way too much going on at every ...