One day in history - 17th October 2006
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lizziecToday is the designated "One Day in History" which I mentioned in my last post, so for the first time in years (since I was an annoying first or second year undergrad) I'm going to lay out in no uncertain terms an exact (or not ;)) run down of what I've done with my day.
First, let me say that despite the 17th October being chosen for being "normal" or "usual" having no special significance, today was actually fairly out of the ordinary for me. Funny how when you go looking for a normal day, you turn out having something one that is quite of the ordinary.
I'm doing two jobs at the moment. The first is dropping kids at school and picking them up again (job1). After that I usually walk from Blean School onto the University of Kent's campus for my second (temp) job working for one of the departments there (job2).
This morning I woke up when the radio alarm went off at 6:15 and lay cuddling ben until the beepy alarm went off 15 mins or so later. I got up and wasted some time on irc before getting ben up to help bandage my ankle (which I sprained yesterday), getting dressed and heading to the job with the kids. Got them ready for school and then Ben turned up and walked them to school. Usually I'd do this, but I wasn't supposed to walk too much cos of the aforementioned sprain. Instead I drove to Park Wood and met Ben there, then drove him to work.
I had a cup of hot chocolate in the gulb before wriggling out of my jeans (for job1) and into my smart skirt (for job2) and heading over toPhysicsMarlowe. I did some general admin work, interrupted for 20 mins while we had a fire drill (so much for being on my feet as little as possible and keeping my ankle elevated!).
I had lunch in Rutherford with Rah and Claire (lovely Jacket Potatoes, though Rah's chicken looked rather radioactive).
The afternoon passed fairly uneventfully as I did data entry for an hour before heading off to job1 again. I usually walk them home, but again, to stay off my ankle I drove them home where I left them with their mum (my friend Sue) who was home early.
I came home and did stuff on the internet, waiting for Ben to finish work and tonight he headed back from work on his own so I didn't have to go out again.
We curled up and watched some TV together before having a dinner of bacon, fried eggs, oven chips and baked beans. I'm now watching old Casualty before heading over to Sue's for some ice cream and a gossip.
It's been a pretty lovely day really, and the sunset was just amazing :)
I suspect in 100 years people will look at this and marvel at how mundane it is, but I'm trying to give them an idea of what it was like living my life in 2006.
Clearly I need to spice up my everyday life a bit :)
[edit] I'm pretty pathetic. I'm very excited because my post/thread about One Day in History is on the front page of the TES Staffroom :D
First, let me say that despite the 17th October being chosen for being "normal" or "usual" having no special significance, today was actually fairly out of the ordinary for me. Funny how when you go looking for a normal day, you turn out having something one that is quite of the ordinary.
I'm doing two jobs at the moment. The first is dropping kids at school and picking them up again (job1). After that I usually walk from Blean School onto the University of Kent's campus for my second (temp) job working for one of the departments there (job2).
This morning I woke up when the radio alarm went off at 6:15 and lay cuddling ben until the beepy alarm went off 15 mins or so later. I got up and wasted some time on irc before getting ben up to help bandage my ankle (which I sprained yesterday), getting dressed and heading to the job with the kids. Got them ready for school and then Ben turned up and walked them to school. Usually I'd do this, but I wasn't supposed to walk too much cos of the aforementioned sprain. Instead I drove to Park Wood and met Ben there, then drove him to work.
I had a cup of hot chocolate in the gulb before wriggling out of my jeans (for job1) and into my smart skirt (for job2) and heading over to
I had lunch in Rutherford with Rah and Claire (lovely Jacket Potatoes, though Rah's chicken looked rather radioactive).
The afternoon passed fairly uneventfully as I did data entry for an hour before heading off to job1 again. I usually walk them home, but again, to stay off my ankle I drove them home where I left them with their mum (my friend Sue) who was home early.
I came home and did stuff on the internet, waiting for Ben to finish work and tonight he headed back from work on his own so I didn't have to go out again.
We curled up and watched some TV together before having a dinner of bacon, fried eggs, oven chips and baked beans. I'm now watching old Casualty before heading over to Sue's for some ice cream and a gossip.
It's been a pretty lovely day really, and the sunset was just amazing :)
I suspect in 100 years people will look at this and marvel at how mundane it is, but I'm trying to give them an idea of what it was like living my life in 2006.
Clearly I need to spice up my everyday life a bit :)
[edit] I'm pretty pathetic. I'm very excited because my post/thread about One Day in History is on the front page of the TES Staffroom :D
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