TGIF

[scottishlass]

I hope this is the end of this exceedingly awful week.

On Monday we had to bring our car to the repair shop, ever since they exchanged the engine, something or other is wrong and now the speeding meter and such are not working anymore (NOT GOOD!!). Well it hasn't worked for quite some time but we didn't have the time to get the car into the repair shop. And to tell you the truth Olly felt lazy about it and I rather succeed in moving the rocks of Gibraltar than move Olly to do something against his will.
Tuesday was okay but on Wednesday I sprained my ankle and Olly had to get the car back. 400 € - good thing one of my clients paid their bill ON TIME!!
Yesterday, due to the painkillers I have been eating like gums the whole day on Wednesday, we overslept and Olly was late at school. My fault, shouldn't have taken the painkillers :-(
Right now, Olly is preparing for an teaching ability test where he is teaching maths to one class while a bunch of suits sit in the back to evaluate if he is fit to teach maths. JEESH, this guy lives and breathes maths. He is one of the best maths teachers at the Studienkreis AND he studied it at university. It was his minor. But no .. this blasted school put the wrong subjects into his application for faculty (faculta is the diploma over here that enables you to teach even though you did a BA, MA or PhD at uni). So instead of Maths they put IT in ... because they needed someone at the time. But now they need maths teachers more and he has to go through the whole examination's process again. my poor poor baby. I keep my fingers crossed, even though I KNOW he is the best damn teacher this school ever had.

So ... it was an awful week but I hope it improves. Keep your fingers crossed that Olly passes this live teaching exam. It doesn't include more pay if he passes it, only more work but he will have his maths faculta for teaching (incidentally, his original diploma includes the teaching ability for university in maths, and I daresay university is a wee bit more superior than teaching a bunch of unwilling, almost illiterate 17 and 18 yrs olds the theorem on intersecting lines).

Edit to add: Olly just phoned me ... everything went SMOOTHLY! He got the faculta :)


I have tweaked the layout colours a wee bit and also added a new component to the right hand bar. My current desktop. I pinched on of the KoH stills and remodelled it to fit a scene in my (still not finished and probably never will be) historical novel The Devil's Bride.

And a bit of meme - snurched from lily_cat
1. Choose 5 of your all time favorite books.
2. Take the first sentence of the first chapter and make a list in your journal.
3. Don’t reveal the author or the title of the book.
4. Now everyone try and guess.


1. "Tonight we are going to show you eight silent ways to kill a man."

2. She woke in the dark.
Naked in Death by J.D. Robb. (Boo!! :))

3. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good title, must be in want of a wife.
Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen (anon)

4. Once upon a time, Minerva Dobbs thought as she stood in the middle of a loud yuppie bar, the world was full of good men.

5. Strapped into the quivering soup can laughingly called a plane, bouncing his way on the pummeling air through the stingy window of light that was winter, through the gaps and breaks in snow-sheathed mountains towards a town called Lunacy, Ignatious Burke had an epiphany.

Happy guessing (or knowing) :)

Comments

[elfnut.livejournal.com]

Good for Olly, congrats!

And you please take of yourself, hear me?

Love
C.

[scottishlass.livejournal.com]

Hiya Elfchen :) I will :) Promised :)
And I will tell Olly your well wishes :)