She had a Q. Look

Irrelevant

Means nothing to anybody, since nobody from school reads this, but we may finally have a printer. The other place quoted us $20,000 (after it was only $12,000 last year). Now this new place quoted $13,000. We'll take that. Not sure how you can justify such a big difference! It was all in the graphic design lay-out cost. Varied hugely. I'm sure this place will be quite shite in its layout.... but alls I care about is getting the darned thing finished (I always get to this point fairly quickly). We were talking about management units at work today. There is a lady who gets one for looking after the staff kitchen (which seems to mean buying new plates every now and then and moaning at us all to get our food out of it at the end of term - the tea-lady does all the grunt work). She also gets one for doing 'the curtains'. I'm not even sure what that entails. Anyhow, that's $7,ooo or so right there. I get NOTHING for doing the school magazine. I felt jipped. As usual. There's something inequitable there. My three periods off a week for half a term is blimin' measly.

Final

We had our netball final yesterday. Bits of it weren't too bad. Bits of it were horrendous. Bits of it brought back memories of Ken and those phases of game where we'd start humming the Harlem Globetrotters theme to ourselves because we were so comically bad (we seriously would, me and Ken)..... I put my hand up as one of the people who had a shite fourth quarter. I think I did a back net pass or two that bounced off the rim (oops - too high).

We got horrible trophies for our efforts. They should just give us another free game voucher for making the final or something. They are creating a lot of garbage there.

Free Haircut

I got hooked into this great deal of being a mystery shopper at Rodney Wayne (Probably not allowed to say that in a public forum..... probably breaking some secrecy vow). I get a free haircut, so long as I fill out a four page survey. Sweet! And I can recommend five more people to do it. I think I have three volunteers already....... Cass or Ange - you keen for free haircuts?

Tuesday

Tuesday has become the busy day. It is either the day of Ange's Geeky Craft Night in the Hutt or Richard's Cheap Movie Night. Tuesday never looked so good.

News

I am studying newsy stuff with my Media Studies class. We watched last night's TV3 broadcast in class today. We had some good wee talks. After each item we paused and discussed why that was REALLY newsworthy (what interest did it spark in us). I think they're starting to really think about it. One of them (the smartest one, to be fair) even used the phrase 'medical ethics'. Ok.... so my class is the 'slower' one of the two. It doesn't take much to excite me with them. I got to put in a few shots about Winston's emotive hate-mongering. I like to turn the new generation off him wherever possible.