1. Lose weight. OK,s o I started fairly good with that at 18 kg in the first week.
2. Never get injured while trying to keep a certain child doing extremely stupid things.
3. Update this and Bogarantyu weekly–even if the bogarantyu domain will lapse for a while.
4. Bring my sites up to date.
5. Write at least one good article for the Hungarian Wikipedia. (Aaron Razel, maybe?)
6. Maintain a relatively good average: 4.4-4.6 is the goal.
7. Crochet more!
Clay Aiken: This Is The Night
Well, not quite, but my most recent homework from the Uni involved writing 350 words about my favorite… whatever. So I wrote several different short essays. I cut one to fit the 350 word requirement and e-mailed it to my teacher. Of course this one was on Star Trek. There is a longer version that I plan to post once I get the shorter one back. Till then, you have to be satisfied by the fact that the expression batshit insane is used in it. Well, not the short one. I cut that out. [ETA: Screw that, I broke under the peer pressure. Look behind the cut.] Read the rest of this entry…
I have gone without an update for way too long a time! Since the last update here my WP version became outdated, I started university again and now teach first graders.
SGA season 4 started last week, and I have to admit I still haven’t gotten around watching 320, and I won’t see it for a while as it seems my laptop has given up the ghost. Well, not really, but it has a minor problem: it doesn’t want to boot. Once it boots it works without problems, but to get it to boot takes a lot of tries. I hope I can get it to work again soon, as it drives me nuts that I can’t access my own files!
University. It is okay, sometimes boring, sometimes exciting. The campus is very pretty: it is about 30 km from Budapest, so about 50 minutes on the train.
I know I should update this blog a lot more. I know I don’t even update LJ these days, or my Hungarian blog, but I will try to do better in the near future.
The brief version: I was accepted to PPKE, starting, once again, as an English major on August 27.
Today is Saturday. Today at 7:14 a.m. the doorbell rang. It was the parcel man, delivering my CDs from Israel. On a Saturday. At 7:14 a.m. Unheard of! Especially since I got the confirmation e-mail on Thursday that the parcel was posted. And the post mark says 21-6-07. And today is a Saturday. We have no deliveries on Saturdays.
I didn’t get the original order, but israel-music.com was kind enough to offer to substitute a CD I ordered and was still unavailable 6 weeks later to another one of the same value, and no I am sitting here listening to some nice music instead of cleaning. I will have to hook my father’s desktop up with the speakers to listen to more while actually doing some work.
Can I say I am happy?
As most people in Hungary know, the school year officially ended on Friday, so now it is only teachers who are in school. As a teacher, I’m at school as well. I am supposedly taking inventory, or helping co-workers wrestle the computers to actually print those gorram report cards we need to hand out on Thursday. Now this is the theory of what I am doing.
 In reality I am sitting in the adult KIDPIX  class. It is quite an experience, as I get to see the final products of all the adults who took the course. I have to admit I wasn’t even sure who all went to KIDPIX, as I went with the kids. Apparently they learned completely different things, so now my colleagues can use Power Point! Loverly, loverly Microsoft!
More seriously, I forgot to call my dentist once again. I can’t go on Thursday as we have the teachers’ day party from 5, and before that we have a big meeting. Maybe I can get a short appointment tomorrow!
The first Sunday of June is designated as “Pedagogist Day”, or the day celebrating people working in education. In many schools it is treated as teachers’ day, in my school the broader, 1951 definition is used.
So today the staff of the school–teachers, administrators, cafeteria staff, custodians, cleaning ladies and leadership–gathered at the teacher’s lounge at 12:30. P.M., yes. A high school student greeted teachers, then the choir sang a few songs and we were treated to ice cream. I think the ice cream was from Jezsek. Everything we have at school parties is from Jezsek. Jezsek is a confectioner. Makes the best cakes in the whole district. And great ice cream.
Today it was nice to be a teacher.
Doors can be shut. And that can help an awful lot to let some steam off!
I am so ready to have this school year over with.
I am charging the batteries for my wireless mouse. I keep reaching for it, because this little HUF 3500 (about US$17) is just addictive. I can barely use the touchpad any more! Recharge faster!