Recently I wrote of being under-threat of redundancy. As things stand it looks as though this has been resolved. The Head's words being that the school is 'where it needs to be' in terms of the number of staff. Though tell that to the Head of Geography who is now short on someone to instruct the colouring in. There's a governors' meeting tomorrow but things should be okay. For now.
Related to the world of jobs and career moves, my good friend from the English department has got a new job at another school. So it's no more giving her lifts and listening to her mad singing and no more daft coversations about beads (don't ask). It's sad because I'll miss her but it looks like a good move for her because she'll have better opportunity at her next school to work in SEN which is where she'd like her career to go.
Some pupils have found me on facebook. One of my year eights came up and asked if I was on it. I tried unsuccesfully to deny it. When i asked how he knew he said that Gertrude had told him, when i asked how she knew, he said her brother had told her. I sensed this was going to go on forever and didn't pry and further. I've just checked my privacy settings to make sure no one goes noseying around. Especially as I've got a good number of staff on my friends list. It could be a cyber-disaster.
And finally, it appears that the world of drivers has gone mad. I was driving behind a tanker that was being driven by Michael Schumacher (incidentally one of my colleagues has actually met him, the real Schumi, not the guy driving the truck I mean). He was belting round corners and slamming on the brakes so harshly that his rear tyres were locking up and leaving great big marks on the road. There were also lots of motorcyclists on the roads, in that they were riding their bikes not that they'd come off in a huge fireball. Yet. There were several items of roadkill, pheasants naturally but I actually saw a cat by the side of the road. After all this someone had the audacity to wave at me to slow down as they came the opposite way. If he'd seen some of the driving I'd seen earlier...