the world is awesome!

There's this greasy spoon/cafe about ten minutes away from where miss_haitch and I live. We went there for brunch, and I totally got three sausages instead of two with my MONSTER chips (fries). Zomg tasty start to a weekend.

I think I just broke my record for lesson planning speed - 3 different 1-hour lessons planned in about an hour and a half. It doesn't sound quick, but it's an improvement for me!

I've been thinking a lot recently about teaching - it's hard to avoid. I've actually reached the stage that, despite freaking out because my photocopying isn't done and there's five minutes to go before the end of breaktime, despite my not knowing what I'm doing half the time, I'm:

a) actually enjoying myself;
b) not sucking at the job;
b) doing pretty damn well at the teaching side of things.

The people at school and university whose opinions count are always at me with the things I do well. So it's pretty annoying when I can't even admit that to myself. So:

( Man, Fay can actually teach, what is up with that )
Which is why I've been freaking out and feeling bad that I don't think I want to go into teaching straightaway in September. There are plenty of other things I could do with myself in the meantime, and teaching will still be there even if I put it off for a few months. I'm just not ready right now.

To relax, I have been writing and satisfying a pretty peculiar urge: I really like to answer the question "Who would play X in a movie/TV show?" by casting all of the characters in my current writing... and yeah, all of my gaming characters too.

Since I started gaming in 2006 (I'm such a young gamer) I've had thirty-odd characters, almost exclusively D&D and new WoD. One day I was very bored and very tired of work, so I went and cast all of them.



( This is totally what I do in my spare time... )
That's totally what I do in my free time. I love all of them, though, even the made-on-the-fly-for-oneshots characters that I spent way more time on than necessary. Backstories galore!

And as a random aside:
( Map of human junk in orbit around Earth )