Oh man. What a long fucking sleep.
Day is almost over. Chilling in bed it is then lol
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.
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
sky pretty
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 :(
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.
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.
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 ❤️
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.
New earbuds are great!
Still suss that they're Bluetooth, but seems fine so far, plus I can charge my phone AND listen to music at the same time
#I'm bi-winning
Win here, win there, win win everywhereAgain with the conking out and waking for meds time then napping some more 🥱
This fatigue is killing me. Needing lifts to do anything.
I managed to get some ink to print forms and some gesso but no palette in stock. Hoping for enough energy to get some more things today.
