I bet you are tired if that is happening in your school. It's what needs to be done (if the head has guts, which they usually don't) but it is a constant battle. Hopefully if you can get on top of it, it will make the rest of the year a lot easier - a short term investment for a long-term profit. My school year had started OK, but has gone downhill somewhat. I've got one eye on a post in another school, a special school at the other side of the City. I'm considering going for this and giving myself a change of scene. It does put another 10 hours or so travel on my week, but it is more money and something different, though I would be away from English and giving general support SEN students, with things like autism, so I don't know. I think I'll have a look at it and decide. They'll be a lot going for it anyway, so I might not even get a look in, probably 100+ for 2 posts.
Hi, oh I know the noise thing I found really strange, I think you are right perhaps they are part of the inconsiderate generation and find nothing in it? The pseudo rappers sound a nightmare, you certainly did the right thing there. I was going to post a rant on the noise thread, before it was closed down, because there was a party going on five doors down the other day that was vibrating our windows! This started at 4pm and was still going when I got to sleep at 12 (it was Friday so I was exhausted from the week). When I woke up at 5.20am it was still going on and didn't stop while 6! If it happens again I'm phoning the police.
I seriously can't believe those arguing in favor of noise... or perhaps I can considering they are all largely inconsiderate kids themselves. LitNet seems to have become a haven for such over the last month... 20-somethings with a couple years of college under their belts who seemingly know everything and feel free to let everyone know this in the most insulting manner. Personally, I'm not up to wasting my time on such debates right now. We're well dug into the school year and just now the powers-that-be have decided to take discipline and school control seriously and naturally, after having gotten away with so much up to now, the kids are rebelling big time. We have to put forth double the effort until they get the idea that they are no longer running the show. As such... I don't have a lot of energy at the end of the day. How's your school year going?
Neely... I feel for you. During my year and a half living in New York I had a couple pseudo-rappers/pseudo-artists move into the studio space next to US. These guys would drop by some evenings around 11 PM and begin blasting their music to the point the entire room shook while they carried on with their spray paint paintings of graffiti. After a while, I learned where the main power feed for this section of the building was and I would simply cut their power.
Oh I know I shouldn't rise to the bait I wouldn't normally do so and I won't in the "The Holocaust is Dull" thread... I can't understand people jump up to defend people like that though, clearly some people will buy anything. Never mind.
Neely... I should have joined in with the discussion concerning Wilson if only to tell you neither he/she nor the Red-Headed bonehead were worth getting all wound up about. To pretend that one cannot see the intentions to provoke in almost every one of Wilson's posts can only be ascribed to sheer stupidity or pseudo-intellectual game-playing. While I can certainly appreciate the humor in Mel Brooks skits on the Nazi's I fail to see that Wilson was joking with his repeated antisemitic comments... especially directed at Jewish members. But like yourself, perhaps I have a short fuse for such BS after all the disrespect and antagonism that I have to put up with day to day on the job.
Yes... I'm enjoying my summer break... spending a lot of time in the studio painting. As for the focus on opera DVDs... I'm not planning on avoiding any further opera CD purchases, but I'm finding that I can get a grasp of the opera as a whole... and certainly come to appreciate it more rapidly... after watching the drama as opposed to just listening to the music and following along with the librettos.
Hi, how's it going? Are you currently on holiday from work? I just wondered, it is such a life blessing. Time to do what you want and so. All the best, Neely. Oh, I think the move to buying opera DVDs is a good one.
Perhaps of some interest to you: http://www.online-literature.com/for...60#post1033860
Hi there, hope you are well. I was wondering if you could direct me to those French operas you were listening to sometime last year? I've a fancy to go over them, getting the opera itch, but can't seem to find the right page on the classical listening - it is a long thread. If you have a name or link I'd appreciate it. Thanks, Neely.
