HE GOT THE JOB! MY PARTNER GOT THE JOB!
FUCK YESSSSSSSSS AHHHHHHHHHHHH
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Congrats to them! π
Seagoon has moved house. UMG has become a grandparent. I'm cooking chicken. Wins all around today! π
Yayyy! Congrats!
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It's gonna be a big weekend. My Corolla struggled a little bit going up the hill.
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This is the perfect weather to make health and fitness changes if you need to. Also getting rid of clutter. C'mon guys. You've got this!
Anyone want to work on their functional strength? It would be my honour to allow you to come over and mop my floors and scrub my bathroom.
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I have this!!
You have!!
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I've just done psychometric testing for the first time, for a potential job. This seems like a really dumb way to select candidates.
It is. You should check your gut for other weirdnesses.
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I know I keep saying tinyest's language is exploding. but hes now repeating almost all words said to him (or trying to anyway). He can now say "if you say so" and uses 2 words together pretty frequently. Sadly its "daddy, no" a lot of the time. But hes also become a lot less stingy with his hugs. And you best be prepared cause sometimes they are surprise hugs.
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Oh man. What a long fucking sleep.
Day is almost over. Chilling in bed it is then lol
sky pretty
I'm pretty beat. So many stairs .
Another early night I think.
Sorry I haven't been here as much as I would like. Love you all. Special hugs to Spud's partner, to Tinyest for talking and to Melbs for being a great cat mum and community gardener. πππ
Seconded. Rest up seagoon. The water awaits
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Ted is such a champ. Here he is enjoying the balcony. π
And I found Bill after much searching , grabbed him, put him in bathroom with food water and a tray. He is better n. He must have felt so uncomfortable, poor little guy.
Bill and ted's (and yours) excellent adventure :)
Poor bill, he'll get the hang of it I'm sure.
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Replacing the pita bread kilojoules with iceberg and olive oil for lunch. Turning a salad wrap into a salad. Went okay.
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Did a first aid course today. It was way more interesting then I expected (I am scarred by some terrible OH&S seminars). Also a bit confronting. And there's an app you can sign up to and opt-in to be notified if someone nearby is having a cardiac arrest. So you can hightail it there and help while the ambulance comes. On the one hand I'd love to do that but it also terrifies me
I was working at this joint and I had to study for my first aid renewal. The Minister came in with his grand kids to have a chat. This little boy about 4, grabbed the handle of the iron and went to pull it off the ironing board towards himself. Fuck me. I took the biggest step and managed to grab it in time. When they left someone said "You nearly had to use your first aid then. That was a real life scenario".
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Dumbest thing I've done in a bit today.
I went to grab a snack from the lunchroom and ended up with a little biscuit and tried to eat it.
The texture strange and didn't break up like I thought so I chucked it in the bin.
Couple of hours later I look again at the box of snacks and see in light pen on the lid "Not Edible".
It now dawns on me that I tried to eat a biscuit made out of plasticine.
I was tired this morning :(
Maybe the real dummy is the one storing plasticine biscuits in the lunchroom though? Just why??
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I am a grandparent to a Bluetooth baby now.
Eeeeeeee! Yuck spoiler that nastiness please π
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One of the pumpkins has aphids really severely and itβs starting to spread to the othersβ¦
Iβve sprayed soapy water and physically wiped as many as I could off but am a bit worried. Especially as ants are farming them.
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just my rant about the education system
The school I'm at has very low standards for its students. Most students are not interested in tertiary education or are doing unscored VCE, so all they have to do is fill in a worksheet for each subject (barring English I think) and there's their satisfactory. They don't even have to pass the unit tests, and if they want to pass, all they really have to do is regurgitate information from a textbook and tailor to different scenarios.
Then there's the UK's curriculum and IB, requiring students to write essays in their science subjects and conduct their own research projects. GCSEs probably have more rigour than the VCE system, and that's not even the final qualification if you do A levels.
I understand education in the academic setting is not for everyone, but I feel like as someone who actually wanted to develop better critical thinking skills throughout my education, the system has failed me. All I learnt from doing VCE was how to memorise a bunch of pretty much useless facts, so I when I got to uni, I knew fuck all about writing essays. Heck, I still can't write a very good essay or write well in general. Maybe my experience would've been different if I did more humanities subjects.
But I'm about to go on and teach kids content that they're going to have to memorise for an exam. At least with one of my subjects, it's easier to deviate from the whole "here are some slides, now take notes" thing and make it more hands-on.
Low, you sound like a teacher already - yep its a frustrating job, and that is a super sucky placement. But you care about those kids. Which is really important. And there are other schools out there. Yep, the education system sucks. So does the health system. So do most of the systems (yay, late stage capitalism). But people care, and if you can find a group of them that do it's awesome. There are schools with better cultures.
This also reminded me - I learned how to write essays in year 10. Not because it was on the curriculum, but I happened to have one ace english teacher and she taught us the principles one day. Decades later I am still grateful for that teacher, and use that info still, and my science/maths teacher who pushed me into trying when I wanted to just fail.
Edit: posted then worried that sounded lecturey - was trying to be empathetic and share in response....
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Three days into a hardcore diet change and while I know it's what I needed to do to break some bad habits... ouchhhhh... just a hurdle to get over though!
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Steven Wilson released a new album recently and I'm digging it. His last few albums had more of an attempted pop spin on them whereas this one is two songs that go for around 20 minutes each. I don't think we'll get another Hand. Cannot. Erase. but it's good to see a turn in that direction again.
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Food market was bountiful today. I've got a rolled chicken roast for dinner, and a bag of brussels sprouts to go with it. A random cheese turned out to be cheddar flavoured with salt and vinegar, so I'll have to be a bit judicious in how I use that. I also have tons of fruit of all varieties.
once i got to sleep i slept like a log and for a long time
Bill is not coping well, I think I will have to keep him in a bathroom for a little while until he calms down, has something to eat and drink and pees in a tray
also, it's my observation lazy people make more work in the long run
I'm just tired and don't feel up to the drama of potential scammers. I'm just gonna buy from reliable big stores now or buy on sight.
oh, and I did some image searches, the items I were interested on ebay were not described correctly, they were great items but described ikea etc π
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Is there a lemmy suggestions box? I like to be able to hide users without blocking them and I'd like to be able to disable comment replys. God dam making some comments out of the instance and I get a bunch of updates from aggressive nerds that I really don't care for. I tended to disable comments on reddit as soon as I'd commented due to notification avoidance.
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aldis got a camping sale coming up. If any of you were thinking "man, I'd love to try camping but dont have the gear" this is a pretty good entry point. Kmart is even cheaper (but you get what you pay for there).
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I don't want to go to bed but I'm tired. Maybe a nanna nap will work.
Edit: Too risky. May as well go to bed.
Goodnight all β€οΈ
Does anyone use something other than Spotify? Looking for a new steaming app.
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