tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80578491634954577402024-02-20T02:19:22.144+11:00Squibs and SagasThis is just a page for me to share bits and pieces of my writing. It started when I completed a Master of Arts (writing and literature) at Deakin University so up to 2010 these posts were from course work. Now it's just whatever and whenever the fancy to write something takes hold.
For my blog about education see http://shartley.edublogs.org/Shanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11597797432165037197noreply@blogger.comBlogger120125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8057849163495457740.post-62746996056104209002020-04-20T11:36:00.000+10:002020-04-20T11:36:58.107+10:00CV-19: Cruising<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Today I was meant to disembark from a 9 night cruise aboard <a href="https://www.royalcaribbean.com/aus/en/cruise-ships/ovation-of-the-seas">Ovation of the Seas</a>. This is one of the cruise ships caught up in a COVID-19 scandal. <a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-23/cruise-passengers-not-tested-for-coronavirus-before-disembarking/12081426">ABC News has a report</a> about it but it seems hard to fathom the true facts of the case, given the stories provided by news outlets vary so much.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Around three years ago a friend passed on a Facebook blurb reaching out for teachers who would be interested in running professional development (PD) on a cruise ship. I had recently completed full-time teaching and was taking some time to contemplate the ‘what next’ while I helped my son through his HSC year. One option under consideration was to set up a consultancy business to run PD in schools. I had already established a business name - <a href="https://www.thinklearnact.com/">Think Learn Act</a> - and its logo but hadn’t taken it further when this prompt came along. Despite finding the idea of being trapped with 1000s of strangers on a boat unappealing, I thought ‘what the hell’, and approached Mike about becoming involved. Mike is a paramedic who loves cruises do combined his passions into his business, <a href="https://www.cruiseseminars.com.au/">Cruise Seminars</a>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Through meeting with Mike, Cruise Mike, as he’s known by my friends and family, the idea of running PD became reality. I spent several days putting together the PD plan in the required format as part of the rigorous process of being endorsed by NESA (NSW Education Standards Authority). I actually really enjoy curriculum planning. At the NESA sessions all the other attendees were impressed with the idea of PD on a cruise. NESA was not. However, my application to be endorsed was about the program, not the location of it, so the cruise aspect didn't appear in the documentation and the approval occurred rather smoothly. Mike made all the logistical arrangements so all I had to do was show up for the cruise, attend the social events he organised, and run my PD sessions for 3-4 hours on each of the four days we were at sea. We called the course, <a href="https://www.cruiseseminars.com.au/flyer110420.pdf">Navigating Pedagogy</a>. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The first time we ran this course was in October 2018. I found it exhausting. I was really grateful to have a friend by my side, sharing my cabin. She knows me to a deep level, partly because she’s more of an introvert than I am, and partly because we’ve been close friends for many years. She basically protected me from being in presenter mode more than necessary. For instance, we didn’t go on group excursions at the port stops and we didn’t join the informal gatherings with our PD participants at show nights.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The PD workshops were a great success with just about everyone enjoying them and finding the course worthwhile. There were a few who would applaud enthusiastically at the end of each session, making me blush. However, one group of teachers felt like they already knew everything that was worth knowing. Their negative feedback hit me hard. Stabbed me in the heart. Still, Mike and I planned a second cruise for April 2020.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I asked one of the participants from the first PD cruise to co-present with me at the next one. Since Jennie is a primary school teacher who specialises in students with learning difficulties, I thought she’d give the course greater breadth and depth. She’s also an extrovert. I was so happy and relieved when Jennie responded with an enthusiastic yes. The more we met and prepared the PD, the more I knew our blend of skills and personalities were going to work well in the workshops.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Then COVID-19 arrived and cruise ships featured in the news as a consequence. In March, Royal Caribbean cancelled their cruises leaving from Australia up to but not including the day my PD cruise was meant to leave. There were many days of anxiety as I kept hitting refresh on their <a href="https://www.royalcaribbean.com/aus/en/cruise-ships/itinerary-updates">COVID-19 information page</a>. Finally I received emails from both Royal Caribbean and Mike saying our cruise had been cancelled. Phew!<o:p></o:p></div>
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However, it is a loss of income, particularly painful after significant expense and effort in preparing the material. Jennie lives a few hours away so there were also travel expenses for us. One time I met her in the Hunter, about half way between us, and I stayed the night in a hotel. We had also planned a weekend together in the Hunter a couple of weeks before the cruise.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Jennie was going to be bringing her partner on the cruise so my 20yo son was going to join me. He had contributed $1000 to the expense of the cruise and was really looking forward to the adventure. When it was cancelled, I was disappointed for him even though I was elated for me. The last cruise taught me that I don’t have the emotional energy for running PD regularly or for marketing myself constantly. Whenever I present, I put everything into it. This emotional toll was partly why I left full-time teaching, not just due to dealing with students but also dealing with staff in the various leadership roles I took on. I won’t ever be running PD on a cruise again (sorry Mike). As I said, I wasn’t a big fan of cruises in the first place, and now with all the poor press they’ve received as germ-ridden vessels, I am completely turned off. Thankfully, the ‘what next’ I was contemplating three years ago ended up being my PhD, not going full steam ahead with a PD business.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Just recently, I started consulting with a career psychologist to help me determine what I should do after I complete my PhD. I did some of the homework he set me and our second meeting occurred via Zoom. It had crossed my mind before this meeting that the shake-up in education due to COVID-19 could be a great opportunity for me to be part of a bridge between corporations and schools, perhaps with setting up micro-credential courses for school students. The psychologist started pushing me to put some plan together in this regard. However, part of the reason I started the process with the psychologist was so I could take a considerable amount of time to work out what I really wanted so I won't try to push into this field now. My work history consists of jumping around jobs and leaping at various opportunities as they arose. Before I became a teacher I never stayed at a job for more than three years. I stayed nine years in my first school and have since returned to the habit of a three years maximum. A few times I have resigned from jobs before having another and then quickly taking up the first reasonable job opportunity available. As for an example of leaping at other opportunities, I started writing in the education field because a university lecturer dropped by our class with an offer to contribute towards a <a href="https://www.booktopia.com.au/commerce-dot-com-concepts-and-skills-grant-kleeman/book/9780170251587.html">Commerce textbook</a>. I want my next move to be a really considered one. I am approaching a significant birthday later this year, increasing the pressure of deciding what I’m going to do when I grow up. I’ll ‘fess up. I’m turning 50 and am embarrassed that I haven’t ever found my dream job nor done anything significant enough to be considered a legacy in the world. It feels like time is running out.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Speaking of time, my blogging for COVID-19 has now caught up to the present. I have enjoyed writing out my experience of COVID-19. I suspect my next post with be about <a href="https://www.starwars.com/star-wars-day">May the Fourth</a>. Stay tuned!<o:p></o:p></div>
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So here we are in self-isolation. In my house is my husband, working from home; my 20yo son, still delivering pizza for income; myself, researching and writing; and our cat, Andy, keeping us sane. My daughter studies in Canberra. We were meant to see her at Easter but that obviously had to be cancelled. She recently sent us some gin and sanitiser from <a href="https://grandvewe.com.au/hartshorn-distillery/">Hartshorn Distillery</a>. Much appreciated!<o:p></o:p></div>
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I’m an introvert, homebody, bookworm, nerd… Whichever label you use, staying home is my comfort zone. Despite that, I miss catching up with friends, and have discovered how much meeting a friend at university for coffee, lunch or bubbles at the end of day, helped my motivation and focus for my research. Every now and then I think that I should meet up with someone, forgetting momentarily that I can’t and I’m sorely disappointed. I also like to host the occasional party. We were supposed to be hosting my mother-in-law’s birthday earlier this month. Today I was thinking we should have our neighbours over again since the young family next door is moving away soon.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I’m still in contact with my friends, and have sent care packages to some. A friend who is a nurse, who only recently moved from ICU to maternity after studying to be a midwife and is now geared up to move back. She loves <a href="https://dlea.com.au/products/bullets-liquorice-dark">Darrell Lea Bullets</a>, so I sent her some from the <a href="https://www.greengroveorganics.com.au/the-junee-licorice-and-chocolate-factory/">Junee Liquorice Factory</a>, a place we often visit when I stay with my parents. In a way, my gift represents the appreciation I have for all nurses at the moment.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I sent another friend a jigsaw when she lamented on Twitter she didn’t have any. For Christmas I received a very difficult cat jigsaw puzzle from <a href="https://www.plainandsimple.com.au/">Plain and Simple</a>. When I looked up the website I saw they had a dachshund version and thought about buying it for this friend back then, but didn’t. She said she cried when she received it. I cried as I told her this gift represented my gratitude to all my fellow teachers who encouraged me to be innovative and creative in my teaching career.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I regularly buy from <a href="https://www.harrisfarm.com.au/">Harris Farm</a> for the bulk of our groceries but at one stage orders had to be made 9 days in advance. When we were caught out by that I ordered a special express box which had enough food for a family of five for four days for $250. We were so impressed by this mystery box we sent one to my in-laws too and they had a lot of fun with it. Harris Farms have now changed their express boxes to a range of four cheaper options and regular order lead time is down to just a couple of days.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I’ve always been a keen online shopper but now my husband is home to witness it! His office faces out to the driveway and every second day I hear, “Were you expecting a delivery?”. Since our isolation commenced, on top of groceries and gifts, I’ve ordered <a href="https://www.bimbadgen.com.au/">wine</a>, <a href="https://www.adidas.com.au/">track pants</a>, <a href="https://www.peteralexander.com.au/shop/en/peteralexander">pyjamas</a>, <a href="https://www.kikki-k.com/au/home">stationery</a>, <a href="https://www.sheridan.com.au/">sheets</a>, <a href="https://www.hairhousewarehouse.com.au/">hair products</a>, <a href="https://gotoskincare.com/">moisturiser</a>, <a href="https://www.tealeaves.com.au/">tea leaves</a> and <a href="https://www.booktopia.com.au/">books</a>. So, you know, the essentials.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I began putting on weight due to stress eating when I was feeling the risk of teaching during this COVID-19 time. I then stopped moving and continued eating. I started putting a bit of effort towards exercise by walking with a friend or with my husband. The last time I met with my friend for a walk was the day after <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/16/bolsonaro-brazil-president-luiz-mandetta-health-minister?fbclid=IwAR2yeYZGzqXWJvNaiwJYnwRi4w0DDC9JMm6ROz823WLsKr8TfDtXM3hPhNY">Scott Morrison declared that no more than two people could meet together</a>. We were at the local park walking laps of the oval when we ran into a mutual friend and her family. Four of us talked together for a while. Even though we kept our distance from each other I felt uncomfortable.<o:p></o:p></div>
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A few days later my husband and I walked for take-away coffee. We live in a popular area for walkers but it seemed there were more around than usual or I was just more sensitive to them. It’s now been more than two weeks since I’ve left the house.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Instead, I have recommenced the <a href="https://28bysamwood.com/">28 By Sam Wood</a> program and have settled into a nice rhythm of exercise each day. I start the day with a cup of tea in bed and scroll through social media, email and news. I then do my 28 minutes with Sam, followed by a Sam Wood breakfast, often a smoothie. I do some domestic work, and put on the slow cooker once or twice each week. I’m trying to save the non-daily cleaning chores to the weekend and work to weekdays to keep some rhythm and regularity, even though the work and domestic lines are actually more blurred in normal home life. It’s partly to keep a similar pace to my husband but his work days online appear to be longer than his regular work life.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Income wise, I’m in the lucky position of being on scholarship for my PhD. However, due to the inability to travel and the university’s ban on face-to-face research, I am unable to progress as planned. I should be working on my literature review and writing up some sections of my thesis but I’m having trouble with focusing on that. Meanwhile, I have my first ever paid position at university, as a research assistant, on a project similar to mine. I have been plugging away at that, but similarly, not performing to the level I expect of myself. There are a number of factors that have contributed to that, but one of them is the distraction of COVID-19. Whenever the team on this project meet on <a href="https://zoom.us/">Zoom</a>, the others complain about how their lives are consumed by Zoom with all their university teaching and meetings. Some of my PhD friends also teach at the university and are overwhelmed with how going online has increased their workload.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Most people I know still have their jobs, which shows the privileged company I keep. A friend’s two sons have both lost their jobs and since they were on casual contracts and had been at their workplaces for less than a year, will not be receiving income compensation from the government. Same for another friend’s son-in-law.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I have been working for three different schools for the last three years but in a really spasmodic fashion. I was certain I wouldn’t be included in the allocation of funding from the government. My suspicions were confirmed when I started seeing campaigns on Twitter for some form of compensation for casual teachers. Apparently the ACT government had come up with a deal for their casual teachers which spurred the NSW lot on.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Sometimes I wish we lived in New Zealand but actually quite grateful to be where I am. I worry about USA, Brazil and other countries under extreme right-wing leadership. I find comic relief in <a href="https://www.instagram.com/celestebarber/?hl=en">Celeste Barber</a>, <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stephaniemcneal/bradbucks-quarantine-instagram">BradBucks</a>, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/samneilltheprop/?hl=en">Sam Neill</a> and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/mj_slats/?hl=en">Slats</a> on Instagram. So all up, I’m OK.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Next post will be about cruise ships.<o:p></o:p></div>
Shanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11597797432165037197noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8057849163495457740.post-65746924621602250942020-04-17T20:13:00.000+10:002020-04-19T18:36:23.158+10:00CV19: Storm brewing, March 2020<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="https://squibsandsagas.blogspot.com/2020/04/cv19-start.html">Last post</a> I said something about a cloud becoming a storm. It was a slow build but build it did.<o:p></o:p></div>
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March was meant to be an exciting month for me. I had two trips to Adelaide and another to Brisbane booked as part of researching my case study schools for my PhD. I was also finishing the final aspects of a professional development course I was going to be running in April and had booked a weekend at the Hunter towards the end of March to meet with my co-presenter.<o:p></o:p></div>
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It started with a very social week. I had Book Club at the Central Coast, an event with a friend in the city, I met up with church friends and we celebrated my brother-in-law’s birthday at a top notch restaurant.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Even though I am a full-time PhD student, I supplement my scholarship funds with casual teaching (Years 7-12) at three different private schools. During the second week of March I worked at a school for four days. It would have been five days but I attended the funeral of a friend’s Dad on the Thursday.<o:p></o:p></div>
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At the funeral we greeted each other with hugs and kisses on cheeks, guiltily aware that we shouldn’t be, but at this stage it was just advice, not mandated, to maintain a distance. Following the funeral, I was at a bar to farewell a new friend who was returning to Germany after her three week stay as a university exchange student. I was slightly aware that we were standing rather close, heads bent together as we discussed the answers for pub trivia, and our arms around each other for the photos to signify the occasion. Turns out, they were the last photos taken on my phone showing that kind of closeness with friends.<o:p></o:p></div>
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One reason I was needed at the school that week was due to the training sessions teachers had to attend to learn about Microsoft Teams in preparation for the day they transitioned to online. Some teachers embraced it. Other teachers thought it was an over-reaction and didn’t like being forced into learning yet another new thing. However, after they were trained up, all the teachers I spoke to felt that the training was done well and that it was going to be manageable. The hardest part then, was the unknown of when it was going to happen.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The students were a bit unsettled and were frequently using hand sanitiser, even refilling their little bottles from the school supplied bulk containers, but other than that, classes ran as usual. Though I did think it was odd early in that week that an assembly was held in the usual circumstances, meaning the students were in close contact with each other. Later in the week the mass gatherings were no longer happening and instead of an assembly to announce the imminent move to online, Microsoft Teams beamed the principal and the school captains into each classroom during Home Room time. It was an effective and fun test that geared up both teachers and students into how the software could work. By Friday it had been decided that the school would move to online after the weekend.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The following Friday I was working at another school, back at the one that had all the hand sanitiser at the start of the school year. By now, many of the classrooms had empty bottles but the students carried their own. Staff in management at this school were cursing the other school for jumping to online so early and thereby putting pressure on them to do the same. It was also mentioned that the Federal Government was threatening to withdraw funding if schools closed down.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I overheard a group of teachers from one faculty, meeting over lunch, talking about how they were coping with their online preparations. I found the mood to be more positive than the other school. They were feeling uncertain and under prepared but they were realistic and practical, saying that they could only do the best they could and everyone would learn from the experience.<o:p></o:p></div>
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It had been announced that week that parents could choose to keep their children at home from the following Monday, as long as they signed a form stating that was what they were doing. The students chatted a fair bit about the situation, many saying that their parents were going to send them to school since they didn’t pay the huge fees just so their kids could learn online. The students themselves mainly wanted to come so they could see their friends.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The students also told me about some of the teachers I was replacing. One teacher was due to finish working at the school that day and a farewell party had been planned, so the students were sorely disappointed that they weren’t going to have all that sugar and a bludge lesson. The teacher was moving overseas so when the borders started to close and international flights reduced, he jumped on the first flight he could to his new home. Another teacher took the first available flight to be with elderly parents in London, basically throwing her job away in the process.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Over the weekend, more social distancing and isolation announcements were made by Scott Morrison but he was adamant that schools wouldn’t close. Gladys Berejiklian, the NSW Premier, said she would make an announcement about schools on the Monday morning.<o:p></o:p></div>
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On the Friday I had caught the train to the school. Normally the trains were crowded with barely a seat left. I let a few trains stop and go without boarding because I was waiting for an express train. Each train was less than half occupied. When I finally stepped on a train, I was able to sit by the window without any other passengers beside me. Every time I touched a pole or a railing I was conscious of all the nasties that could be there and kept using my hand sanitiser. At the coffee shop I frequent every morning before working at this school, people kept their distance in the eerie quiet, no hubbub of conversations happening, everyone collecting coffee and departing.<o:p></o:p></div>
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By Monday, I was too nervous to catch the train. My husband was working from home since someone in his large office building, someone he had no contact with, had contracted COVID-19, so the whole office tower was closed. I asked him to drive me into the school and pick me up at the end. I still bought my takeaway coffee. The dress code of patrons had dropped significantly and one enquired about the purchase of beans. I had noticed beans for sale but they didn’t have the particular flavour the man wanted.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Over half of the students turned up on the Monday. They were hanging out to know the result of the Premier’s announcement. At the announcement she implored parents to keep their children at home unless it was absolutely necessary for them to be at school. The students were a little rattled because they didn’t know what that meant for them.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I was on playground duty in a quiet grassy area at lunch time and observed the Principal speaking to a camera (proper camera lights and all). There weren’t many students in the area but those that were I tried to keep apart, particularly because they might appear on camera. One group of girls started performing dances to play up for the camera in the distance. When it became really silly I stopped the girls in their antics, a little guilty for spoiling their fun for the purpose of marketing. The Principal then spoke to all the Year 12 students on the front steps, around the corner from where I was on duty. I couldn’t hear all of what was being said.<o:p></o:p></div>
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After lunch I was on a double period of a Year 10 class and I had to take them to the same front steps towards the end of the first half. The Principal announced that the school was moving to an online mode the next day and that there would be no face to face classes at the school but they could come if absolutely necessary. She was very positive and upbeat in her manner but was also frank and direct about the importance of isolation. The students were told to maintain the standard 1.5m distance from each other on the steps, making it hard for the ones up the back at the top of the stairs to see and hear. Plus, latecomers bunched a little close together. It felt futile because in the playground it was virtually impossible to stop teenaged girls from being close to each other. There was time allowed for students to ask questions. One asked if there was a chance they were going to have to repeat the year. The reply was basically that it was up to them to keep up with the classes their teachers were running and prevent any need to repeat.<o:p></o:p></div>
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At the end of the school day, after I had completed my admin requirements, I was walking out of the school grounds passing scenes of Year 12 girls hugging each other and having a mini celebration of what was probably their last day at school together. Ever. Tears whelmed up so I put my sunglasses on.<o:p></o:p></div>
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As I waited for my husband to pick me up, students were waiting for parents to pick them up because they were laden with the contents of their lockers. One student had several plastic bags of fish in water from the Science department. The moment was a little surreal. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The next day I drove myself. The traffic had been incredibly light the day before but I still left in plenty of time in case parking was difficult. It was easy.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The school had asked three casual teachers to come in to supervise the students who had come to school. They had no idea how many to expect. Rooms had been measured to assess the areas needed to maintain social distancing and consequently had plans for up to 300 students to be supervised in three different spaces. Ideally, though, 145 students was what they thought to be the maximum manageable and conducive to learning. Less than a dozen showed. I supervised four Year 12 students in their study space, and the remaining students spread out in the library.<o:p></o:p></div>
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One of the Year 12 students who had been in the study room with me went to her teachers who were running their online lessons from their classrooms. Two of the other girls noticed from the video lesson that this student was in the room with their Maths teacher and speculated that they should go too. In the end they decided to stay in the study space. I was concerned if students on the school grounds went to the classrooms with their teachers, students at home would feel the ones at school had an unfair advantage for the HSC and gradually all of them would be back in physical classrooms. Overall the students seemed very at ease about being online. They laughed at one who had a large booming voice while contributing to her online lesson but they were all using headphones or earbuds so it wasn’t much of a bother.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I had been slated to work the next day but due to such low numbers of students it was cancelled. I was called to come in on the Friday and then the next day that was cancelled too. By Thursday there were less than five students turning up.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Working at the schools felt odd and each day the cloud of COVID-19 felt thicker and gloomier. However, it was my Adelaide trip that made it feel more like a brewing storm.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Between the two school stints I was in Adelaide for my first official observation of teaching and learning in enterprise education for my PhD. I usually stay with family when in Adelaide but I thought they might be a little nervous about me coming with all the news about airline passengers carrying COVID-19. I was right. My offer to stay in a hotel was accepted and this was without mentioning that I had been working in a school environment.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I had never seen airports so vacant and be so quiet. It was creepy. I had two days to kill before going to the school so I holed up in my hotel room reading, doing some work and way too much time on social media and news outlets tracking COVID-19. Breakfast was included at the hotel but that meant I had to go down for it. It certainly wasn’t packed at each of the breakfasts but still, I was always seated closer to other people than I would have liked. I should have said something but I feel for hospitality workers and the demands placed on them by customers and managers. One morning the Newcastle Jets (soccer team) were also at breakfast, happy and perhaps hungover from the win the night before. It was one of the last matches played in front of a physical crowd and a week later the competition was suspended altogether. Further down the track it was announced that <a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-28/newcastle-jets-player-tests-positive-for-covid-19/12099900">one of the players had contracted COVID-19</a> and I wondered if it was one of the players standing next to me at the breakfast buffet. This virus was moving closer to my world.<o:p></o:p></div>
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At the school where I was conducting my research, it was almost as if COVID-19 didn’t exist. There wasn’t much talk of it and nobody was social distancing except for the lack of shaking hands. When I flew home the plane was less than half full and I suspect seating was arranged for social distancing as much as possible. That night I emailed the uni to cancel the trip booked for two weeks later. My supervisor said it was a wise decision.<o:p></o:p></div>
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A visit to meet my contacts at a case study school in Brisbane was only a week away so I was hoping to still go on that trip. It had taken a long time to nail down this school to a commitment and to schedule a meeting so I wasn’t going to toss it in lightly. I was supposed to stay with a friend and her family so I discussed with my friend how she felt about it. She said she would prefer that I didn’t stay with them since her husband was on medication that makes him immune suppressed but if it was too hard for me they would make it happen somehow. So sweet!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Two days later all interstate travel was banned by the university so I cancelled the Brisbane trip. I also cancelled a stay at the Hunter that was supposed to finalise plans with my co-presenter for the professional development I was running in April.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The day after I had my last day at a school, I went to my university office and packed up everything I thought I might need to work at home. That was the 25<sup>th</sup> March and I have been self-isolating ever since, hunkering down and waiting for this storm to pass over.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Next post will cover self-isolation.<o:p></o:p></div>
Shanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11597797432165037197noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8057849163495457740.post-48902273864365649722020-04-16T14:25:00.000+10:002020-04-17T19:05:27.163+10:00CV19: The start<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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As we launched into 2020 everything seemed normal except for the veracity of the bushfires. I was eating, drinking, watching the tennis and cricket on TV and going to uni a few days a week. I eventually became aware of a virus attacking people in China. I wondered about my Chinese friends, whether they and/or their families were caught up in it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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It turned out there was an issue. I’d forgotten that someone I knew had planned a holiday to China to celebrate her recently completed PhD and was going to stay with the family of one of our Chinese friends. The family didn’t live in the epicentre of the virus, so despite having some trepidation, she boarded the plane. She discovered all of China was on lockdown, despite reports that it was only Wuhan subject to this rule. Within a couple of days she realised she needed to return to Australia but contacting Australian authorities for information was proving difficult and the more she looked at booking flights, the less there were and the more expensive they became. She eventually booked a flight at exorbitant cost and it turned out to be one of the last few commercial flights from China to Australia due to the Federal Government ban. She was advised to self-isolate for 14 days but it wasn’t compulsory. She did.<br />
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Soon after this occurred, Scott Morrison announced that Australians returning from China on repatriation flights were going to be forced into isolation at the Christmas Island Detention Centre. I was horrified. I am concerned at the xenophobia wrapped up in this decision. It stands in stark contrast to the hotels for Australians returning from elsewhere in the world during the last few weeks.<o:p></o:p></div>
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At the end of January, even though there were some cases in Australia, they were reportedly people who had flown to Australia from Wuhan, so it still felt like a Chinese problem and basically an issue not in my own personal world. However, it edged a little closer when I did my first couple of casual teaching days. For instance, t<span style="font-size: 12pt;">here was hand sanitiser in every classroom which felt like a luxury, given there were none left on the supermarket shelves. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">There were also a number of students with Chinese names absent due to the government’s decree that anyone returning from China were not to attend school for 14 days. It felt like the fabric of the school community had been torn a little.</span><br />
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I didn’t work for the rest of February and life went on as normal. I went to the dentist and the hair salon, I travelled to Adelaide and attended a concert in Hunter Valley, I went to uni and socialised with friends regularly. Yet, there was a little cloud forming over these activities.<o:p></o:p></div>
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A cloud also formed at uni. On Facebook, one of my Chinese uni friends received a nasty message, clothed in religion, from a fellow PhD student. It basically claimed that the virus was due to their lack of belief in God. Partly due to this and partly to support our Chinese friends who couldn’t be back home to celebrate with their families, the rest of us organised a Chinese New Year lunch at the local shopping centre. It was a nice time of companionship and the food was wonderful.<o:p></o:p></div>
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My next blog post will be about the cloud becoming a storm.<o:p></o:p></div>
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family who lived on a hobby farm for many years.</span></div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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There was always a dog and a cat
around who lived long, happy lives. Except Casper. Casper, the cat, had many
lives. He survived being ran over, poisoned with pool chemicals and having the
tip of his tail severed by a log falling out of a fire, for which he blamed the
dog. Casper was white, making him susceptible to skin cancer, and once the
cancer headed towards his brain, his short but dramatic life was brought to a
close.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Guinea pigs, budgerigars and mice
also became pets at times but were merely fads that caused more grief than joy.
The supposed male guinea pig purchased from a pet store had babies; the budgies
rarely had babies but when they did, had trouble keeping them alive; and when a
mouse was accidentally let loose in the house, the mice were banished, never
allowed to return.<o:p></o:p></div>
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To have a hobby farm and not have
proper farm animals is a sin.<o:p></o:p></div>
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There was once a horse called
Robbie on agistment that nobody in the family were confident enough to ride. He
jumped fences for his own entertainment. A single electric wire was erected at
the top of the fence line. He sniffed it and experienced the shock of a quick
jolt. He turned his back on the fence and in one decisive action, accurately
kicked the wire to the ground with his hind hooves. He continued to jump fences
until his owners sold him a couple of years later.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Next on the scene was Sally, a
goat acquired to be a cheap lawnmower. She was brought home in the back of the
Holden station wagon, ripping the vinyl lining on the ceiling of the car with
her horns. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She was a beautiful creature
and supplied the family with milk, the children and the father unaware that the
mother filled regular milk bottles with Sally’s nectar. A few months later
Sally gave birth to a couple of kids and they were then all bundled off to a place
that could handle such a tribe of goats. <o:p></o:p></div>
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A box of cute cheeping chicks was
selected from a farm and carefully carried in the lap of a child for the car
drive back home. The chicks were loved, to the extent that one of them was nurtured
to death within the little boy’s hands. He was distraught once he realised what
he had done. The rest of the chicks quickly grew into chooks and attracted a
neighbour’s dog for an occasional midnight feast. An axe brought the demise of
the remaining few. The mother of the family cried as she plucked them and cried
again as she watched her children eat the result of her labour.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The only real farming success
came in the form of poddy calves. The father would buy a handful of poddy
calves, hand-feed them until they were ready to exist only on grass, fatten
them up and then sell all but one after a couple of years. The last in each lot
was kept for butchering. Daisy was the first. A calf that jumped fences was
named after Tim Forsyth, the Olympian high jumper. Splash appeared to have a
whack of paint dropped on her forehead. Many guests were put off their BBQ
lunch when the children talked about Daisy or Timmy or Splash in loving terms,
appreciating the beasts as pets they loved as well as for the joyous flavour
they produced.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The cow paddock lacked trees. A
public servant’s salary didn’t stretch to the construction of farming
infrastructure so the Dad had to innovate. He loved a good bargain and at an
auction he found a large pile of telegraph poles, cut to three-quarter length.
As a draftsman, he fancied himself as a self-taught architect and could picture
these poles becoming a grand stable. He snaffled them up.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Building the stable walls was
easy enough to do alone, in the beginning, and a pulley system helped to lift
the poles up the wall but on a day when one of the pulleys broke, a second pair
of hands was needed. His wife was too busy with the youngest child so he
enlisted the help of the eldest. <o:p></o:p></div>
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He thought the 11 year old would
be able to easily move the chock of wood up a level while he held the telegraph
pole up, waiting to rest the pole on the wood in its new position, between the
existing wall and the ladder. However, the child had trouble finding a spot
where the wood would take hold and be stable. As the Dad lost his strength he
yelled “run” at the child but she backed into the stable instead of away from
it. The dropped pole bounced on her head (explains everything, her family would
say for the rest of her life), knocking her to the ground, where her legs then
received the final impact of the pole’s fall. She screamed and was momentarily
in awe of her scream echoing around the countryside. Her father lifted the pole
off her legs and tried to help her to her feet but she couldn’t stand. He
carried her back to the house but before entering she said she would try to
walk again. She was able to hobble with help from her father. Still, they took
her to Emergency at the local hospital where it was declared she just had major
bruising. She walked pigeon-toed for several months after that.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Somehow the stables were
completed and was filled with hay and the hay became populated with mice. The
children would chase the mice, unaware of how the mice would have attracted
snakes, brown snakes which could kill with a bite. A baby brown snake once came
into the house and shattered the illusion of home being a safe place. Grass
would grow long where there were no animals to keep it down and the children
would play games within it, boisterous enough to keep the snakes out of sight.<o:p></o:p></div>
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There were telegraph poles
leftover after the stables were built so instead of letting the pile become another
snake haven, holes were dug around an area that was a yet-to-be-completed
tennis court. Relatives from Sydney, who regularly visited at Easter, helped to
insert the poles into place. When there was enough money, chicken wire was
going to be wrapped around the poles to form the tennis court enclosure.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Meanwhile, the tennis court only
existed in imagination. The ground had a bit of a slope so to make the court as
flat as possible a retaining wall had to be built. The material for the wall
came in the form of test concrete cylinders, covered in a yellow sulphate on
each end. Apparently, concrete had to be tested for road worthiness hundreds of
times. Children were paid 5c a cylinder to chip off the sulphate ends. The
Easter rural retreat became a tennis court working bee for several years
running. One year, with the help of a hired bob-cat, the area was flat enough
to erect a net and have a hit and giggle for an hour or so.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The money required for a court
surface and the chicken wire fence never materialised and the tennis court
became no more. The concrete cylinders were repurposed for converting the
carport into an enclosed garage and lining the walls of a nuclear war shelter.
Eventually all that remained of the tennis court, were the fourteen telegraph
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After the children grew up and
were well established as city dwellers, with families and careers of their own,
the mother and father sold the hobby farm and moved to a bigger piece of land.
They continue to live there with their poddy calves, a cat and a dog, but alas,
no telegraph poles or concrete cylinders for building architectural dreams. The
calf-port, however, is a story for another day.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Shanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11597797432165037197noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8057849163495457740.post-4836094090813622302020-01-21T17:00:00.000+11:002020-01-21T17:00:00.700+11:00Reading 'Beauty' by Bri Lee
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On a dark and stormy day, in a
small but classy hotel room, I pull the book, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Beauty</i>, by Bri Lee, from my suitcase.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I begin reading. The book
captures me immediately. Yes! I too want to control my body. I want to provide
an image of myself to the world that I am strong, confident and successful.
Even more so, I want to convince myself through my body that I am strong,
confident and successful. Because most of the time I feel anything but.<o:p></o:p></div>
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As I read Bri Lee’s description
of how she sought to take control of her body via a detailed plan and bloody determination,
I want to follow the same course. I skim read the parts about starvation
leading to tiredness and headaches. I simultaneously condemn her, empathise
with her and desire to be like her. I perpetually make new plans to make myself
weigh less, be thinner and be, well, glorious. I wish I could find a way to
vomit after eating, to purge myself of my bouts of greed. Since I can’t do
that, I wish I could embrace hunger pains and a rumbling tummy. Since I fail at
that, I wish I could become a gym bunny or a runner or both. Bri Lee describes
experiencing these things, her scales dropping with figures I haven’t seen
since I was around 20 years old and I am insanely jealous. I want to be her.<o:p></o:p></div>
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At this point I realise this is
not a healthy reaction and against the book’s whole concept. I am angry and curse
the author for illustrating a path I want to take, even though intellectually I
know it’s not something I should do. I resist the urge to follow the Instagram
accounts mentioned that could inspire me to be skinny. Knowing this is not the
intent of the book, I read on.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I sigh over the intellectual
arguments presented against the obsessive thinking towards body control. I have
heard most of them before. I feel superior because I read Naomi Wolf’s ‘The
Beauty Myth’ when it was first published, before Bri Lee was born, as if this
make me more enlightened than this amazingly brilliant author changing the
world through her writing and tackling unfair laws across Australia. Yes, I’m
jealous. Jealous of the fame, the talent, the success and the person who weighs
at least 20kg less than I do. She reminds me of Maddison in ‘This is Us’ who
attends a weight loss group even though she is far from being overweight. I
feel guilty about all these feelings I’m having but persist with reading.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The essay moves on to Bri Lee learning
to accept her body for what it is, to reject the dual image of what it is and
the ideal body her brain identifies as being her true self. This dual image
resonates strongly with me. I was a super skinny child and teenager and that’s
the body I associate with my self-identity. When I inform doctors of what I
weighed back then, they say I must have been malnourished. I wasn’t though.
Glandular fever the year after I finished school kicked me into the normal
range and later a lifestyle of work, study, food and alcohol with not much else
to round it out pushed me towards the overweight zone. Then, in a period of six
months, I leapt well into the overweight range with a 15kg gain. I blamed my
job where no matter how hard I tried I couldn’t make everything right for the
customers in my care. I knew this was due to systemic issues in the company and
a hopeless manager, but still I strived for perfection. I fuelled my attempt to
work every possible moment with pizza and lollies because this was an age before
MenuLog and UberEats. Also, every time I ate a salad from the local salad bar I
felt strangely ill. Years later I learn I have an intolerance for coriander and
hypothesise that all their salads must have been laced with this poison. I
escaped the world of work misery by falling pregnant and lose weight with
‘morning’ sickness. My first obstetrician was nasty about the rate at which my
weight gained once I began feeling better, five months into the pregnancy.
After two wonderful babies and a more balanced lifestyle I scraped back into
the normal weight range but still felt fat and ugly, since it was still 20kg
more than who I considered I really was. When I returned to full-time work I
bobbled up and down with my weight but more up than down. My new career was as
a high school teacher which was incredibly more emotionally taxing than being
an accountant in the banking industry. This does not help someone who is an
emotional eater and can afford fine restaurants, cheeses and wine. I currently
weigh 40kg more than who I think I really am.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Bri Lee ends her book by killing
off the dual body image she held. I know I need to do this too. I also know I
need to lose weight for health reasons but the sense that a skinnier body would
make me more attractive, more desirable, feels like a stronger motivator. The
irony is that this motivator probably actually serves to feed the guilt and the
emotional eating it’s supposed to be fighting. Somehow my mental attitude is
improving though. I feel physically stronger through many years of personal
training and more recently through the ’28 By Sam Wood’ program that I
periodically follow. I am quite an emotional person and I am not ashamed of
that. However, I am ashamed that sometimes I let my emotions make me feel like
a failure when I see before and after photos of people who have successfully
lost a lot of weight. I am ashamed that sometimes my self-talk can send me into
downward spirals of depression and associated eating habits due to the lack of
self-worth.<o:p></o:p></div>
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When my desire for inner strength
instead of outward attractiveness acts as a motivator, that’s when I feel good
about myself and I accept myself, body and all, as who I am. Even though this
is also what Bri Lee is advocating, I can’t quite identify with her position
since she sits so nicely in the so-called healthy BMI range. Then I have that
‘duh’ moment, the epiphany, the moment of enlightenment, that the whole point
is that I shouldn’t be identifying with Bri Lee or anyone else. I just need to
be me. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Thanks Bri Lee.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I started life with an orange fuzz on my head which lightened and darkened depending on sun exposure. After my daughter was born with similar colouring, I was often asked where her red hair came from. I looked askance at the inquirer, thinking they must be blind. My hair had actually become darker on a more permanent basis around the time my daughter entered our lives, so I now accuse her of stealing my red hair. Perhaps it was hormones, perhaps it was just the process of time creeping up on me. I returned to full-time employment when my children were six and four years old and a high priority was to regain my identity as a red head and thus I have been dying it for the last fifteen years. The fuzz is more of a frizz now.</div>
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For the last three years I have been blonde. I switched to blonde as part of my 'fresh start' attitude when I changed schools and commenced a quest for an entirely new direction in my work life. That direction, for the next three years, will be doing my PhD. So now that's sorted, I am ready to settle back to my red head identity. I remember once saying to a Society and Culture class that my identity was so tied up with being a red head, I could never be any other colour. I went blonde less than a year later!</div>
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Going red after being blonde, has meant it has come out a lot brighter than I want it to be. It's too fiery for my liking. The photo above is rather muted compared to the reality. I'm hoping in future renditions it will be calmer. </div>
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Work colleagues have often described me as calm which surprises me each time. Internally, I am far from calm. My family does not know me as calm, so perhaps I take out work frustrations on them. I'm wondering if being a red head again gives me permission to lose my temper more. </div>
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A few months ago while chilling with a friend, I started a sentence about some annoyance and my friend sighed and interrupted with "You're constantly annoyed". I was taken aback. But she was right. As a perfectionist, everything not meeting my concept of what's right and proper really grates, only I try not to show it too much. I must have relaxed my exterior self too much with this friend!</div>
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More recently, a uni friend described me as bossy. Again I was taken aback. But this time I wouldn't agree. I am of the firm belief that I am not bossy outside the family home. As a consequence, I took the attitude that if I'm going to be described as bossy, then I'll be bossy. Within minutes I pulled her up for demonstrating a lack of respect for a mutual friend. In person, I have been given the cold shoulder since.</div>
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I am reasonably comfortable with who I am. I try to curb my bossiness and temper at home but at times of stress and tiredness this can be difficult. The purchase process of our new house and the imminent move has been very stressful. I have tried to stay calm throughout but at the moment, the stresses are starting to bubble over in the form of snapping at my loved ones. I am fortunate that they forgive me.</div>
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I am also fortunate to have good friends. Writing these daily #FabFeb posts has made me more aware of how much these connections mean to me. I had a lot of trouble forming and navigating friendships as a child. Arrogance became my armour against bullies at school. Probably not the best form of defence but it helped me to survive. It wasn't until Year 11 that I stopped being permanently petrified of being shunned. That fear still exists when a new friendship commences and with some friends it doesn't fully dissipate. The arrogance only comes out occasionally now but that also means my insecurities are more exposed.</div>
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I have a handful of friends from school days that I know will stay strong. When I run into friends from former work places I light up with joy. At university, I am relishing the conversations I have with a whole bunch of new people about all things related to education, similar to the people I know via <a href="https://education.nsw.gov.au/teaching-and-learning/curriculum/learning-for-the-future/future-focused-learning-and-teaching/Future-focused-resources/teachmeet">TeachMeets</a>. I have friends from church who I used to fear would not like me because I hardly attend church anymore, but over the last few years I have relaxed into seeing them as true friends who accept me as I am. My most recent meet-up was a surprise lunch prompted by a text from a church friend asking if I was on campus. She was in an administration queue at the university to collect academic transcripts for her daughter starting a new job soon, that is, when she returns from her trip to Nepal. As you do. What an adventure! </div>
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I am not a perfect friend but I am loyal. I fight for others more than I fight for myself. I try to seize opportunities to meet with friends as much as I can because I believe that together we stand. We stand up to the bullies in our lives, we fight for justice, against adversities and for peace in our hearts. I am so grateful for my friends. My life is so much richer for them being in it. Rich like the red of my hair!</div>
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As part of buying our new house I had to find a JP (Justice of the Peace) to witness me signing a form. I normally call on an esteemed colleague from my first school. In the last few years I think we have met more often for his JP duties than purely social reasons. I feel a little guilty about that. </div>
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I recently learnt that another good friend is also a JP. I asked if he had 5 minutes to spare, more if he wanted to be shouted a coffee. We agreed on a time to meet at a cafe, bought coffee, signed the form and chatted idly about mutual friends. The conversation was becoming stilted so we were about to depart when the conversation went deeper. The central topic was philosophical approaches to life but particularly in regards to religion. That will happen when your friend is a minister of religion. I remember many years ago when he was at ministry college he struggled a little with viewing the world in grey, wanting the seemingly simpleness of black and white. We have both matured in this regard and although our beliefs may differ a little we approach relationships with people very similarly. It was so nice to catch-up. I'm glad I had the JP excuse.</div>
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After my coffee date I drove to university and before I even turned on my PC I was into another deeply philosophical discussion. This time it was with a fellow student and the topic was the philosophical underpinnings of my research into enterprise education. We examined questions such as who really chooses what students study and what is the purpose of school education anyhow? The Department of Education research students in my building tend to have lunch together and hunger had hit the crowd. The discussion was with a part-timer who was going to head home but sat around with us in the lunchroom, foodless, in order to continue the conversation but the moment was lost. Ah well, it was fun while it lasted. Besides, I had work to do.</div>
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Not that I was able to work for long before my appointment with my librarian friend. She showed me the best databases to search and we had an interesting discussion about the <a href="https://squibsandsagas.blogspot.com/2019/02/fab-feb-few-friends.html">poorly sourced paper</a> from the other day. Apparently it was in a well regarded journal. She showed me how to assess journal quality but that bit of information didn't stick in my brain. </div>
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Coping with loud music and drunken voices belting through my office window (it's O Week), I worked through to 9pm to make up for the time lost to these philosophical discussions but it was worth it. Today's conversations made me appreciate again the <a href="https://squibsandsagas.blogspot.com/2019/02/fab-fest-freedom-and-flexibility.html">freedom and flexibility</a> I have in my daily life now.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">As a full-time teacher, life is ruled by tight time structures of terms and timetables which become tedious and tiresome. There is a constant sense of urgency to be ready for the next lesson, the next day, the next week, the next term, the next assessment, the next event and so on. Urgency causes a heightened state of stress and is not good for you when there isn't much of a reprieve from it. On top of the general school structure are the needs and demands of the students and their parents to cater for differences in abilities, in culture, in families, in wellness. Then there are the regular timetable interruptions such as carnivals, excursions and fund-raising activities.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">When I first stopped teaching full-time I thought I would be fit and healthy in no time. Instead, I lacked the drive to exercise and put on weight due to the lack of incidental exercise that occurs with regular teaching. Now, in the main, I'm really happy with my routine. I spend too much time on my phone in the morning but I am exercising almost as soon as I roll myself out of bed. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">I generally try to schedule appointments and coffee dates outside of school hours so I'm readily available for a casual day. Most in my circle of friends know that a day's pay trumps nearly all other plans. But as it is, it has been rare that I have had to cancel anything. Last year I turned down quite a few days of teaching because I was travelling and had scholarship money but I don't have the same luxury this year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">When and where I work on my research is fairly flexible. At university I have an office I share with supposedly three others but only one turns up on a regular basis. At home I have a lovely desk but more often I work sitting on the couch or even in bed. TV is a problem and the more time I spend at home to work, the cleaner my house. Domestic chores are a great form of procrastination. I am also a lot hungrier at home. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">On Tuesdays I have a Personal Training session with my 19yo son. It often makes me extra tired and extra hungry so sometimes I undo the good work of the morning by bumming around and eating for the rest of the day. This particular day was one of the worst. I 'snacked' on a peanut butter sandwich, a toasted cheese sandwich and some chocolate on top of the carefully planned healthy eating. I binged on Nurse Jackie while I did some domestic tasks online, such as ordering packing boxes and arranging a visit from the <a href="https://www.cleanoven.com.au/">oven fairy</a>. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">But you know what? My mental health is a lot better for it. To take some time to chill is impossible during a school term because even if a 'mental health day' if taken, a lot of planning needs to go into it. Then there is the guilt factor about abandoning your students and/or if an overworked colleague has to take your class instead of a paid casual teacher. When a teacher is sick sometimes it is easier to turn up and teach rather than trying to leave instructions for some hapless casual. Now I am that hapless casual and it is so incredibly nice to end a day of teaching and be finished for real. No marking, no writing up incident reports, no report comments and no parent-teacher nights. I actually don't mind most of all the extra little jobs teachers are required to do but it's the accumulation effect of them piling up and burying you that knocks you around. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">The highlight of the day was that for the second week running my personal trainer has complimented me on an improvement I have made. Today was for the length of time I held a plank and last week for my chest press weight. Compliments are rare from him so I relish them when they appear. I haven't told him about how much work I've been doing at home lately so I'm hoping he will continue to notice gains I've made in strength and fitness. Still need to work on the food intake though. As they say in the #28bysamwood community, it's about progress, not perfection. An I'm definitely making progress.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I had to attend 'Cultural Diversity Training' just in case I'm lucky enough for a course convenor to select me from the university database of potential casuals for some tutoring or marking. I was relying on coffee to pep me up for the 5pm session but there was a tragedy - the coffee cart en route was closed. Instead, I was pepped up by the surprise appearance of a few friends I didn't expect to be there. One was a friend from nearly 20 years ago when we were in a church mums' group together. I'd love to rekindle the friendship but it hasn't happened from the few brief moments we've run into each other at uni. Another friend was from one of my teaching positions. When I first met her six years ago I wasn't sure I was going to like her but we ended up working really well together. It's another friendship I'd like to do better at. The last surprise was a friend who has just finished her PhD. The first time I met her, about a year ago, we talked for three hours and understood each other immediately. Just a couple of weeks ago we ran into each other again while I was having coffee with someone she didn't know. I had a good feeling that these two would get along and they too hit it off straight away. However, on this occasion we were unable to find a chance to talk at all. Next time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On the research front, an article about enterprise education in schools that I missed in my MRES came to my belated attention. The overview showed it had promise, in that it was right in the area of my research and fitted my biased preferences. However, once I hit the literature review section I started to have some concerns about the way it was written. There were sweeping statements, poorly linked concepts and broad terms used when more precision was required. I started thinking about how much my reading and writing of academic literature had improved from completing my MRES and how happy I am to have a supervisor who guides me so well. But then I started thinking about how arrogant I was to be thinking like that. The Robinson (2006) reference raised my interest. Given the context, I was thinking it was probably Sir Ken Robinson, champion of creativity in schools. I looked up the reference list. Yep, I was right. Yay me! I thought though it would be to some paper he had written but no, it was to his <a href="https://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity?language=en&utm_campaign=tedspread&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=tedcomshare">TED talk</a>. Not the usual type of citation in an academic paper. I checked another reference and another reference and another. Until I had checked all on the page. Most of the references were to non-academic sources, highly unusual for an article in an academic journal and certainly not best practice. I marked them in red, the academic references in blue and the institutional reports in green. I tweeted this colourful examination with "When you think you're reading an academic paper but it has more references to newspapers (eg The Telegraph), magazines, TED talks and the like (marked in red) than academic literature (marked in blue)". It gained a little traction and I received a bit of encouragement from one of the enterprise education gurus from the other side of the world. It was nice. I meet with a librarian soon. I will be asking her about how to judge the merit of particular journals. I will also ask my supervisor next week about how to treat such papers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">At home, we are trying to use up as much of our consumable items as possible to reduce the amount we have to move. For instance, I'm delaying the purchase of hair and skin products. Seems silly given how small these items are in relation to the amount of stuff we have. So when we find a packet of jelly just past its use by date, it has to be eaten. Which meant ice-cream was also required. Oops.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Over a year ago we moved into the house we are currently renting. After that move I swore I would never do all the packing again, that I would pay anything for someone else to do the dirty deed. Today I started that packing process again. I'm counting it as exercise.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">I'm trying to let go of some stuff as part of the packing process. I threw out stacks of decade old </span></span><a href="https://www.delicious.com.au/" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Delicious</a><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> magazines and selected five books to pass on to a cafe that recycles books. I was thinking about Tidying Up with <a href="https://konmari.com/pages/netflix">Marie Kondo</a> on Netflix. I have only watched the first episode, which I found tediously slow and boring, so I am no expert, but it's fairly well known from all the articles about the series that Marie Kondo's mantra is that each item in your house needs to give you joy. Books and stationery give me joy, making it difficult to whittle them down. Clothes give me less joy so when I go to pack them I might be able to make a better effort there.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">We walked into a swarm of strangers blocking the bush view normally available from the front entrance of the house. </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">I asked John which one was Pam, since he was the only one who had met her. He pointed at someone who was going back and forth to the kitchen but he wasn't certain. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">She has just retired and is moving up Newcastle way to be closer to her family, who we met next. Lovely people but both the family members and the midwives are people we are not likely to meet again. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">As a business owner, it was an interesting exercise to nail down the underlying drivers of my business and identify obstacles to preventing my business from going further. When we looked at leadership qualities, we had to choose a couple of people in our lives who demonstrated good leadership and how they did that. A decade ago, Gilbert was a good leader for me because he was supportive, had my back and I felt like he had faith in me, my teaching and my instincts. Even further back in time, Kim was a good leader for me because she encouraged me to learn more, step up and thus built confidence in myself. Towards the end we went through a goal setting exercise. One of the presenters provided an excellent demonstration of coaching people through this process by asking questions to develop the goals to purposeful and specific actions. The coaching process was also applied to decision making but turned into a bunch of people giving the guinea pig on stage advice.</span></span><br />
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The podcasts start with a series of statements from the stage starting with "I'm a feminist but...". In my head I thought, <i>I'm a feminist but despite attending a feminist event and knowing that Deborah Frances-White, the Guilty Feminist herself, is against them, I wore Spanx, using the justification that on occasion Deborah Frances-White does too</i>. </div>
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<a href="https://twitter.com/calbo">Cal Wilson</a>, the guest co-host, said something like, <i>I'm a feminist but when the Uber driver picked me up from the airport I played the cutesy card, declaring he was so much stronger than me so he would lift my heavy bag into the car</i>. </div>
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A couple of years ago I wrote a post along the same lines as the 'but' statements, before I knew The Guilty Feminist existed: <a href="https://squibsandsagas.blogspot.com/2017/03/my-feminist-failures.html">My Feminist Failures</a>. </div>
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The first half of the show was lots of fun with comical truths about marriage, the topic of this particular podcast. As part of her stand-up segment, Cal read from a book from c1958 called <a href="https://victoriancollections.net.au/items/52e0b9e62162ef13b0426500">Woman's World</a>. Some of the quotes made me cry with laughter. More so when Cal added her spin on them. But in all seriousness, it shows that sixty years on, there are some major positive changes that have occurred for women. Yet, there is a long way to go. </div>
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Deborah's piece didn't hit the mark as well as Cal's but what I found funny was how often she dug herself into holes by over-sharing or stereotyping genders excessively. Even funnier were her attempts at climbing back out of the holes. Sometimes she'd just give up altogether and call out to future Tom Salinsky (her husband and editor) to cut that bit out.</div>
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The second half of the show brought Effie to the stage. Effie is a character that originated in the 1980s, played by Mary Coustas. She is a parody of Greek Australian women. In the 1980s and into the 1990s Australian comedy relied heavily on this stereotyping schtick. It seems to be more acceptable when the person playing the part is from the culture being sent up but I think we are more aware that mocking a culture, even from within it, can be damaging. On one hand, laughter can relax tensions between cultures but on the other hand, it can also act as a block for people to look at each other as humans with individual identities and personalities, only partly shaped by ethnicity. The same applies to gender. </div>
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It is hard to become more conscious of the way you speak in stereotypes but as a teacher I had to became more aware. It is so important in a classroom to know your students in depth. This involves recognising cultures with respect but breaking down stereotypes rather than reinforcing them. So the stereotyping aspects of the show were a little disappointing.</div>
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Overall, it was great fun and in an adoption of what one fan said to Deborah, it was a joy to see the Guilty Feminist voice come from a face. My friend, who had no idea what we were doing (it was my birthday present to her), enjoyed the night too. I am looking forward to hearing the edited version which I suspect will combine last night's show with a second Sydney show in a couple of nights. </div>
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I think the Guilty Feminist podcast is important. It helps to reveal how much the patriarchy has set the behaviours and discourse of social norms in our world and then arms us with ways we can smash the norms and the patriarchy down. I'm a feminist but last night's show failed to live up to my expectations and hopes.</div>
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Apparently it is a government requirement that students starting the PhD journey experience an information dump over their heads. My university does similar inductions at other times too. When I attempted the MRES the first time I was working on a temp contract in a new school so had to take a day's Leave Without Pay (LWOP) to attend this dunking ceremony. In my feedback at the end of the day I noted (putting it mildly) that I had to give up a day's pay to listen to information conveyed verbally which I could have easily and quickly digested in a written form in my own time. I can't have been alone in this complaint because they have now reduced the information delivery to just a few hours instead of a whole day and made it a compulsory online viewing of videos where completion is checked on certain benchmark dates. It seems even Higher Degree Research students can't be trusted to do their homework.</div>
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Putting that gripe aside, it is important information, including:
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<li>Possibility to do an exchange referred to as a 'Cotutelle' </li>
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<li>Research training available at the university</li>
<li>Career related training at the university</li>
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The best aspect of the formal part of the day was hearing the perspectives of recent graduates (example above). A common thread was their love of <a href="http://phdcomics.com/">PHD Comics</a> (example below). I also love the <a href="https://www.instagram.com/legogradstudent/?hl=en">@LegoGradStudent</a> on Instagram. If I was the one at the podium I would mention the blog posts of some PhD experts such as <a href="https://thesiswhisperer.com/">The Thesis Whisperer</a> and <a href="https://patthomson.net/">patter</a>.<br />
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The best aspect of the day was the informal aspects. I met E briefly at a faculty lunch last week. On this occasion we talked for over an hour and really connected. There is quite a difference in age between us but we are so incredibly similar in our interests, our abilities and our perfectionism. E has a heart for school students who have chronic illnesses and thus wants to research how teachers and schools can improve the management of students in these circumstances.</div>
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The final benefit of turning up to the fact festival was properly meeting my favourite librarian face-to-face. She originally came to my attention when she presented at one of these information days last year and then we interacted a little via Twitter and email. Now we also have a formal appointment next week so she can help me with creating search parameters in academic databases for a structured literature review. Librarians rock!</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">At Christmas I felt overwhelmed by all the people putting up Christmas greetings. I feel similarly about birthday wishes so I don't often do them myself. I'm more likely to send private messages because they feel more genuine.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">For a month after Christmas I pulled right back from participating in Facebook, only posting about work related aspects of my life and hardly interacting with anyone except on Messenger. I am still trying to work out a level of involvement that feels right. Right for me, that is.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">In general, I see Facebook as a positive force. I love it for the updates from friends I rarely see and from people with whom I would otherwise lose contact because our lives have moved on from what was once regular contact, typically work colleagues. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Much of my news comes to me first via Facebook, otherwise by my daily emails from <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/au">New York Times</a>, <a href="https://www.thesquiz.com.au/">The Squiz</a> and <a href="https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/thebriefing">The Briefing</a>. I follow <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/au">The Guardian</a> and <a href="https://theconversation.com/au">The Conversation</a> on Facebook, and <a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/">ABC News</a> somehow has articles pop up </span></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">that are of interest to me </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">from time to time. And, of course, people tag me in items related to snakes, a result of me posting links to snake articles with the comment "I hate snakes".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">I follow a number of writing related Facebook pages that I find encouraging, in the main. Sometimes, when I'm buried under other tasks, updates from these pages are depressing reminders of a love I'm neglecting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">When I like local businesses (eg <a href="https://www.facebook.com/GrosgrainHomewares/">Grosgrain Homewares</a>) or I want to support what friends are doing (eg <a href="https://www.facebook.com/TheVinylEdge/">The Vinyl Edge</a> and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/financialfeministaustralia/">The Financial Feminist</a>), I follow their pages. I also follow some other pages that can be helpful, such as <a href="https://www.facebook.com/KuringGaiPAC/">Kuring Gai Police</a> and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/livetrafficnsw/">Live Traffic NSW</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">I am part of a handful of groups on Facebook. Some are related to teaching, one is for research students in Education at my university, one is a feminist book club of which I'm a member, the #28bysamwood community and one is my church community which is great for someone like me who rarely attends. Being a member of the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/CommerceBusinessLegalEcos/">Commerce, Business, Economics and Legal Studies Group</a> was such a blessing last year when it provided more than half of the participants for my MRES questionnaire. However, it's taken a while to work out how to limit some of the more prolific groups appearing on my regular timeline.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">People use Facebook in different ways. On one extreme I have a friend who posts several times a day. Towards the end of her PhD she could post more than 50 times in one day. I counted a few times just to check that I didn't have an inflated impression. When I'm feeling stressed in other aspects of life, prolific Facebook posters become overwhelming, so I am inclined to put them on mute until I have more headspace. On the other extreme are the lurkers who don't post but read everything, or have accounts that they don't actually use. At one stage I stopped following a couple in this category, thinking that I didn't like that they were learning a lot about me when I was receiving little in return. I have some regrets there. I also have regrets about a number of friends from my first teaching position who I dropped off Facebook as part of my shedding of the school when I moved on. My way of dealing with the stress of change.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">I used to find the more flippant aspects of Facebook fun but once they became more about marketing I decided to manage them more. The list of names thing, you know, where it says something like, <i>the women listed below are going to find true love this month</i>, is particularly grating. In these cases, I block the originator of the post, usually some fun Facebook page looking for more followers to gain more sponsorship. I have also taken to dropping some of the likes I did when Facebook was more about connecting over the things you had in common by putting out there who you are. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">As for my usage of Facebook, it is constantly changing, hopefully evolving and improving. A while back, when I wondered out loud to a friend about how to handle the brag factor of posting while travelling overseas, she advised to take a photo of the day approach, which I did. More recently, when I travel, the daily photo has been accompanied by a blog post. I figured if I could do daily posts while being a busy tourist I could also do it for #FabFeb. I'm still working out how I want to use Facebook. I want to interact with friends there but I feel a pressure to be fair and consistent. However, now as I write this I realise that sounds like I'm a teacher interacting with my students. I need to relax and not worry so much!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">There are ethical grounds on which I could ditch Facebook with all the selling of data and the way it is used for political manipulation. There are the concerns with how much time I spend on it, time I should spend reading books, writing more or researching. There are also continuous concerns about privacy but then again, I'm always oversharing on blog posts that are completely in the public domain.</span></span><br />
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Shanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11597797432165037197noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8057849163495457740.post-26078324081993316242019-02-14T12:17:00.000+11:002019-02-16T13:32:15.901+11:00Fab Feb - Fashion<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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The aim was to do this #FabFeb posting daily but I'm a little behind at the moment. Today I'm sitting through a heap of boring <i>Welcome to Uni</i> lectures I've heard before so will take the opportunity to catch up on these posts, or at least try. </div>
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In my mind my body is still the one of my slender 18 year old self. Today, typical for when I am on campus, I am wearing very faded black jeans, ankle boots, a bright blue peplum sleeveless top and a little 3/4 sleeve black cardigan. I have red framed <a href="https://au.burberry.com/">Burberry</a> sunglasses sitting on my head. I am a bit like the fictional character, Heather Jelly from <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0138785/?ref_=nv_sr_1">Seachange</a>, in that I often use glasses as a hair accessory - I hate hair on my face. The practical side of me is strong on this. Heather Jelly couldn't have sunglasses actually over her eyes since they would leave marks where they rested in her nose. I recall this from an interview with Kerry Armstrong, the actor who played Heather Jelly, but I can't find the interview or even a picture of Heather Jelly with the sunglasses on her head.</div>
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But back to the clothes. I'll work from the top down. My cardigan is from <a href="https://www.sportscraft.com.au/">Sportscraft</a>, once my go-to store for work clothes. I don't know how much the brand has change and how much I have changed but our tastes rarely match anymore. This cardigan is basically one I carry around to cope with excessive air-conditioning. It is quite likely it isn't washed often enough. The peplum top is from <a href="https://www.marcs.com.au/">Marcs</a>, a brand that doesn't often fit me. Actually, this top doesn't fit as well as it once did but I like the colour and style. According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary the <i>peplum</i> is <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/peplum">a short section attached to the waistline of a blouse, jacket or dress</a>. I used to be silently critical of the peplum style because I viewed it as making one look pregnant, failing to hide but instead drawing attention to bigger bellies. I have since discovered that they are simply more comfortable than tops that hug the tummy too tightly. I'm a little nervous with this particular top because if the peplum portion flies up it will flash flesh, a sight nobody wants to see. Today's bra is a <a href="https://www.calvinklein.com.au/">Calvin Klein</a>, one of the most comfortable bras I've ever had. It is cream with a black pattern or floral/botanic something on it (I haven't looked closely enough to know what it is) and it is padded. I want more bras in this style but it is so old the writing has rubbed and/or washed off the label. My jeans are from three houses ago and are wearing thin between the thighs. I think they are from <a href="https://www.jeanswest.com.au/en-au/">Jeans West</a> which I haven't shopped from since. I picture that their tightness holds all the flabby bits in, making me look svelte and sexy. I ignore the wrinkles obtained from the stretching it's required to do around the abdomen and anyway, I hope the peplum top hides that issue not draw attention to it. My underpants are boring <a href="https://www.bonds.com.au/">Bonds</a> brand but I have a hierarchy. There are the ones I wear for exercise, that have stretched too much, then there are the older ones still in shape that I wear on an everyday basis and then there are the ones I still consider to be new. My drawer contains a range of more attractive underwear but they were bought in less heavy days. I also have some <a href="https://www.spanx.com/">Spanx</a> I wear under some dresses and skirts. I love how the <a href="http://guiltyfeminist.com/">Guilty Feminist</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/DeborahFW">Deborah Frances-White</a> tells the story of how she once went on a rant about how wrong it is to wear Spanx, that it's bowing to patriarchal pressures to be thin, while wearing the forbidden Spanx. I feel the same way. I am wearing knee-high stockings with boots from <a href="https://frankie4.com.au/">Frankie4</a>, a brand that caters for orthotics. I wear thin stockings until my boots stretch over time and then wear socks.</div>
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I remember after a lecture at university during the year after I had finished school, I went across to <a href="https://www.macquariecentre.com.au/">Macquarie Centre</a>. In a shop I spied a white short-sleeve jacket, probably with shoulder pads, given the fashion at the time. I walked into Events (no longer exists), looked at the label ($69) and walked straight back out and smack-bang into a market researcher. With nothing better to do, I agreed to complete her survey. She asked if I ever thought I would buy from this store and I replied it would always be too expensive for my budget. Just a few years later, working in the financial industry (Sydney CBD), Events became a staple of my wardrobe. A few years ago I started buying brands that are even more expensive, inspired by a work colleague. The Burberry sunglasses I'm wearing today being one of the first. At least they've lasted several years. At first I considered it to be a one-off act, or two, then more, but became a habit to the extent that I open the <a href="https://www.matchesfashion.com/au/">MatchesFashion</a> app nearly every morning to see what's Just In. Such an expensive habit. It's like overseas travel. My first trip beyond New Zealand was in 1998 to Europe. The next was to USA in 2011 but paid by work. I was back in Europe in 2013 to present at a conference, mostly funded out of my own pocket. It was supposed to be a one-off but have then travelled overseas every year since. A small percentage of a couple of these trips were financed by loyalty points but in reality, these trips were way beyond our means. My taste in clothes is way beyond our means. This is partly why our Home Loan Manager said, no more <a href="https://au.maxmara.com/">Max Mara</a> for you, Shani. I now save the clothes I like to WishLists where they stay until they sell out.</div>
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So I guess part of my #FabFeb challenge is to adjust my thinking about my spending in regards to fashion. And travel. I'm thinking shabby chic needs to make a comeback.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">My day was off to a brilliant start with Australia beating USA in the Federation Cup. They will play Belarus in the semi-final in April. Woohoo! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thankfully, Ashleigh Barty and Priscilla Hon wrapped up the victory just in time for me to make my first PhD supervisor meeting. This meeting provided the direction I've been craving. I was so excited that when I came home...I slumped on the couch. I resisted the urge to turn on the TV and I managed to tick the first two items off the list of things to do (email my supervisor the to do list and invite my assistant supervisor to our next meeting). But then I used the excuse of printer problems to not read the article that is meant to launch me into a systematic review of the literature. I wish I had the focus, drive and mental strength of Ash Barty.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Instead I dozed in the heat and tried to write this post. I caved to turning on the TV late in the afternoon and binged on <i>Veronica Mars</i> again. After dinner we finished watching <i>Russian Doll</i> on Netflix which we really enjoyed. Read <a href="https://www.themonthly.com.au/blog/craig-mathieson/2019/12/2019/1549925926/bug-code-russian-doll?fbclid=IwAR26mYji-4FtcRfUB4gKdQMhZD4Z-LT8L5ozZXPhA_a6gn9cc4DMBz_h0n0">Craig Mathieson's excellent review of <i>Russian Doll</i> in The Monthly</a> (no paywall).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">PS I was so excited by the tennis that I forgot to do my #28bysamwood fitness program in the morning. By the time it cooled down in the afternoon I failed to muster the required oomph.</span></div>
Shanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11597797432165037197noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8057849163495457740.post-19668234771254105622019-02-11T01:25:00.000+11:002019-02-11T01:25:47.729+11:00Fab Feb - Fellowship<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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In my mind, fellowship is an old-fashioned word for Youth Group. Yet, below that superficial meaning ingrained in me, is a deeper meaning that reflects the strong ties people have due to aligned goals and/or interests. Yes, I know there are other meanings and uses of fellowship, but not part of what I'm talking about today.</div>
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Fellowship describes the bonds I have with the people at lunch today. My first teaching job was at a Christian school where fellowship occurred in a structured way as part of our jobs but also naturally, due to our shared genuine care for young people and wanting to do the best in our jobs. But more than that, it was because we were there for one another and supported each other. As time went on, there was an increasing gap between the yes-men at the top of the hierarchy and the rest of us, which was made tolerable through true fellowship.</div>
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When I was brand new, I remember every time Lisa passed by me she would ask how I was going and mean it. One day my response ended up with me in the photocopier room in the love and care of Lisa and Rose so I could have a mini meltdown (it was the only room available without a toilet where students' eyes couldn't peer in). </div>
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I remember going back to the staffroom one afternoon, sitting in a slump and being supported by Jane. One day I was involved in a car accident on the way to work and her husband, who also worked at the school, helped me out with a "Don't worry, I'll take care of it" and I knew he would, and he did. It was a sad day when he left this world, a heart attack took this beautiful man with a huge heart. </div>
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I remember two young male teachers in my first staffroom working their butts off to have camp ready for Year 9 and 10 by Week 7 of Term 1 and I swore I would never do that job and I never have. They were immensely encouraging and generous with their precious time. One of these young men has just started this year as Head of History at a highly prestigious school in Sydney and the other is a Principal at a school in the Hunter Valley. </div>
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I remember a couple of years later sharing a small staffroom with Margaret and Janet. One day I received an email which felt like a slap in the face from a manager I had respected over a situation where I thought I had been doing all the right things and I burst into tears, sobbed actually. Margaret rang him up and gave him a piece of her mind and he came down to apologise for not thinking properly before sending the email. I remember Janet and I trying to support a younger teacher, new to the school, battle her way through trying times. I remember Anne counselling my children through their own difficult times as students in the school. </div>
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I remember the female music teachers being maligned by leadership because they weren't as hip as their male electric guitar-playing counterpart, who was also a nice guy. It wasn't his fault. </div>
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I remember sharing a room with Debbie at my first school camp as a teacher and helping me out of a dire situation by supplying me with Imodium. I've taken some to every school camp since. </div>
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I also remember my first encounter with the person who was assigned as my mentor and her eccentricity freaking me out a little. Little did I know at the time, it was her way as an introvert of coping with the approaching onslaught of 100s of daily interactions with students and fellow teachers. She was soon dropped as my mentor because someone else naturally filled the role but not long after, a friendship started and has lasted to be one of my nearest and dearest friendships today, fifteen years later.</div>
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Nine of us gathered today, sharing food and history and an appreciation for the time we were colleagues together, coping with the increasingly difficult demands placed on us at that school. We can mostly laugh about it, now we have moved onto happier places, but we agreed we miss the fellowship that we had there and have yet to find to the same strength elsewhere.</div>
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<span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Partly to counterbalance my previous post, today I'm celebrating food, glorious food. </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Back in 2011, a friend invited a bunch of her friends around to celebrate Chinese New Year. Each of us brought a plate of food and even though we hardly knew any of the other guests, we thoroughly enjoyed their company. It was the first night of a wonderful tradition. We have missed two years, so last night was our seventh occasion but the ninth overall. We contribute different food each time and yesterday I took a risk by not even trialling a run of prawn cakes beforehand. </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">I hunted the internet for hours to find an easy recipe without coriander (d</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">ue to my sensitivity) and without deep-frying (due to it being unhealthy and not owning a deep-fryer).</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">However, just a few days before the big night I discovered the quantity of prawns required in that recipe were cost prohibitive. In the end, I chose a recipe (above) from a Stephanie Alexander book, used the sauce instructions from my original recipe (combined sweet chilli sauce and soy sauce) and it ended up quite successful. Yay!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Guests have evolved over the years but there is a core group of regulars who now know each other quite well. There were over a dozen people last night and I had met them all before but one was a first timer for Chinese New Year. We dress in bright colours, mostly red, with no white allowed. There are trivia questions between courses, correct answers rewarded with Lindt chocolate. Since it is the Year of the Pig, questions were about the number of tastebuds on a pig's tongue, the country with the greatest number of pigs and the like. Please note, I don't remember the answers to any of the questions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">We arrived home sometime after midnight, still smiling. We have already started making plans for 2020, which, by the way, is the Year of the Rat.</span></div>
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Shanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11597797432165037197noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8057849163495457740.post-25064313118912919442019-02-08T22:35:00.001+11:002019-02-11T17:27:31.973+11:00Fab Feb - Fat and Frumpy<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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✅Fitness - #28bysamwood 'The Hustler'</div>
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Time to get real. </div>
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I finished school 18 years old and 55kg. I’m about 176cm tall (depends who is measuring). I didn’t understand the agony of shopping for something to fit; it was merely a case of shopping for something I liked. Doctors who didn’t know me then have retrospectively remarked that I was underweight and malnourished. Not true. I was perfectly healthy and happy. </div>
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A year out of home cooking for myself and a bout of glandular fever granted me an extra 10kg. For the first time since toddlerhood, I had a rounded tummy instead of a flat one, as a doctor so kindly pointed out.</div>
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At the age of 23, as I approached my wedding, I was horrified to discover my weight had entered the 70s and that finding clothes to fit wasn’t quite as easy as it had been. I had been behaving as if I could eat anything and it wouldn’t matter, like Twisties and Coke for morning tea or a toasted ham and cheese croissant for breakfast. Turns out, it did.</div>
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I fluctuated between 70 and 75kg for a while. When I started working for First State Fund Managers early in 1995, I was 24 years old and around 70kg. Six months later I emerged from that job 15kg heavier. Working 80-90 hour weeks and surviving on the provided pizzas and lollies will do that to you.</div>
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When I became pregnant at the end of 1996, I was still 85kg. I lost 8kg with ‘morning sickness’ in just a few weeks but then gained 20kg. I went back down to 75kg sometime before the next pregnancy and I think I returned to that weight at some stage before becoming a teacher. I sold or gave away all my size 16 clothes, thinking I’d never be that big again.</div>
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Wrong! I gradually increased weight over the first ten years of teaching so that 85-90kg became the new norm. During the five years since then, I have dreamed of being that low. I hit the century mark in April last year, for just a few days, and I haven’t hit it again since, but it often threatens to reappear. The lowest weight I’ve been in the last twelve months is 94.5kg. I wear size 16-18 on bottom and 14-16 on top. That makes me a pear.</div>
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Despite starting this post with the sentence, “Time to get real”, there was originally no intention to admit to the most recent measurements. According to my scales, I have gained 1.6kg in the last week. Today I am 98.3kg, around the same weight as at the end of my first pregnancy.</div>
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I have thought about doing a Bridget Jones’s Diary style of writing at the top of each post the amount of alcohol consumed and my weight each day but at least for the moment I will stick to the tick/cross method. I think I’ll keep this post as the one-off reveal of detailed figures. I’m feeling like I’ve over-shared as it is. I am embarrassed to lay all this bare, but here it is.</div>
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So a week into #FabFeb it is time for a reassessment. Last weekend was bad in terms of alcohol consumption but only two glasses on Tuesday night since then. I have exercised for 30 minutes every weekday. I am really pleased about my mindset towards exercise since early December last year. I have never liked any form of physical exertion except in team sports or on the tennis court. My dodgy knees (arthritis) and feet (plantar fasciitis) stop me from participating in most of the sports I have previously played. It’s a catch 22 in that the conditions prevent me from many forms of exercise but I need to lose weight to reduce the aches and pains in my body. I have been going to a personal trainer once a week for several years. I am stronger, mentally and physically as a result. Once a week isn’t enough to shift weight though.</div>
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Even before my knees and feet became a problem, I couldn’t really run. I trip over my feet all the time. Whenever in the past I came close to regularly running (shuffling), I’d fall over and skin my knees, hands or something. I have, upon writing this, though, decided to up the level I’m doing on the #28bysamwoodprogram. I don’t love the routines, and I have to adapt them for my knees and feet, but they give me a sense of achievement when they’re done. They are also completed in the convenience and privacy of my own home. These things are important to me. </div>
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Now I need to be more mindful about food. </div>
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In the main I eat healthy food, it’s the quantity that’s the issue. Let’s take yesterday as an example of a reasonably bad day: </div>
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<li>BREAKFAST: I had bircher muesli, listed in my #28bysamwood program. Only, it wasn’t the home-made version provided by the #28bysamwood recipe but from a bought packet, and I made almost double the quantity. I had a cup of tea and drank water.</li>
<li>LUNCH: I had a free lunch at university. It was a mild chilli con carne thing with saffron rice, plus a small vegetarian curry puff. I didn’t have either of the salads on offer because one I didn’t like and the other I suspected of having coriander which triggers sinus related nausea. I drank water. At home, a couple of hours later, I had some leftovers, a little similar to the meal at uni. I later ate a banana, a peach and a mango. Two mangoes with bruised bits cut out, to be brutally honest. I had another couple of cups of tea.</li>
<li>DINNER: Around 5pm I was hungry again. I ate carrots with hummus. A lot of carrots with a lot of hummus. Still, better than digging into more of the leftover cheese and crackers. Dinner was soft tacos (mince, tomatoes, sauce, cheese and avocado wrapped in a tortilla). I ate two of them. I was bloated well into the night. </li>
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As I write that, just now, I realise the amount of food I consumed in total. But at each step, I could justify each mini meal as fine. I had more than usual for breakfast so I wouldn’t eat too much at a provided, possibly unhealthy, lunch. I didn’t over indulge there but then came home and had the same amount again. Fruit is good for you, but four extra sugary ones in one day, is not. Carrots and hummus aren’t bad for you, but the amount I ate, particularly in context of the whole day, was excessive. And so it goes.</div>
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When I work at uni, as long as I haven’t stocked my desk with snacks, I am better with my eating habits, usually taking a packed lunch. When I am being social, though, I buy lunch. Sometimes It’s a salad but the burgers a cheaper, and besides, they have salad on them! At uni I probably buy coffee (a flat white) every second day and a No Sugar Coke when I buy lunch, about once a week. Room for improvement but not too bad.</div>
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At home though, I am thinking about food all the time. We don’t generally stock unhealthy food, except when we have leftovers from entertaining, and we entertain a bit, and as I’ve said before, cheeses are a big downfall during and after entertaining. Excessive wine consumption is also bad for my health but that’s easier to reign in now December and January have passed. That said, we are having dinner at the in-laws tonight and a Chinese New Year banquet (with wine) on Saturday night. Let’s see if I can turn down wine tonight to stick to the Monday-Sunday five alcohol free days*.</div>
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As I said above, it is definitely the amount I eat that’s the main issue at the moment. I know I eat more when I’m feeling tired and stressed. I’m a terrible sleeper so I tend to look for energy from food when I don’t reboot energy supplies enough via sleep. Financing our house, the loss of scholarship and the flow-on effects have been stressful but nowhere near as stressful as I found the day-to-day responsibilities and emotional toil of teaching full-time. I really like the life of a full-time research student. I really like casual teaching and all my little side projects. I have a good life. </div>
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I am so incredibly looking forward to moving into the new house, only a few weeks away. I have my first supervisor meeting for my PhD on Monday, which I am also excited about. I feel when these two milestones are reached, I will have properly launched into the next phase of my life and my stresses will be good stresses at an appropriate level, rather than the ones that involve major life decisions fraught with dire consequences. I’m feeling positive about the future and that I can knock the weight down. </div>
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If you know me, please find ways to encourage me. You could invite me on walks that don’t involve too many hills and let’s meet for breakfast instead of at a wine bar. I love wine bars. But I love breakfasts too!</div>
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* I drank champagne and red wine. I am weak.</div>
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✅Fitness - #28bysamwood 'Blades of Glory'</div>
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✅Free of Alcohol<br />
✅Faculty of Human Sciences event</div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">At university today I attended an annual Faculty of Human Sciences
event titled ‘Key Thinkers Key Concepts’ (followed by a free lunch). This year’s focus was ‘</span><span style="background: white; color: #212121; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Researcher and the Researched:
Listening to researched voices in human sciences research’.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Four researchers
presented their ideas regarding listening to voices of those being researched.
I loved the heart they all had for the people at the centre of their research.
These are my interpretations of the messages that were key to me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">1. <a href="https://researchers.mq.edu.au/en/persons/liz-pellicano">Liz Pellicano</a> advocates
for autistic people to be co-researchers and for the research itself to be more
practical for the daily lives of the subjects of the research. Researchers that
focus on particular groups of people come from some sense of a ‘normal’
position, thereby ‘othering’ the people they research. Due to the onus of
establishing causal relationships, a scientific, factual approach is the norm
in research, even when it heavily involves the thoughts and feelings of people.
Liz pointed out that autistic people are generally more capable of
understanding and interpreting the behaviours of other autistic people. An
irony is that one of the differences drawn between autistic people and the rest
of the population is a lack of empathy but when the tables are turned,
neurotypical people actually demonstrate very little empathy for autistic people.
We need to move research from treating human subjects as guinea pigs and losing
their trust in research, giving so much for so little gain, to research that
develops mutual trust.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">2. <a href="https://researchers.mq.edu.au/en/persons/joe-blythe">Joe Blythe</a> presented a number of indigenous authors who contribute to linguistic research
and thereby change the nature of the research. Too often studies hone in on
what the subjects can’t do rather than what they can do.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">3. <a href="https://researchers.mq.edu.au/en/persons/cathy-mcmahon">Cathy McMahon</a> researched
mothers who conceived via IVF and learnt more from talking with them than “facts
from stats”. Drawings by the mothers of successfully implanted embryos showed
the depth of feelings involved in the process, something statistics could not
reveal. She also believes in multi-disciplinary collaborative research to
include a range of perspectives and voices. In a few days I will be having my
first meeting with my supervisor for my PhD. I have scoped out a research
proposal that involves a range of people in enterprise education in Australian
secondary schools (senior school leadership, teachers and students, perhaps
parents too), mainly about what each of them </span><i style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">value</i><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> in enterprise education. I think multiple perspectives are
important too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">4. More
controversially, <a href="https://researchers.mq.edu.au/en/persons/toby-fattore">Tobia Fattore</a> presented a position that children in research
should be treated with similar ethical approaches as adults so they can be more
active participants in research instead of adults speaking and/or signing on
their behalf and taking away their agency. They should be positioned in the
research according to situation rather than having blanket rules that err on
the side of excluding their involvement. I liked the idea that in addition to
looking for possible harm that could be caused from the research to children, that
ethics committees should also be looking at the harm or even the reduction of
agency and power that occurs when children’s voices are excluded from the research.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Facts are
important. Research needs to have an element of certainty if it is to inform
the future. But feelings are important too. As I struggle with my understanding
of academic theory and the concept of reality, particularly in relation to
ontology, epistemology, axiology and more, I am increasingly convinced there is
a reality that occurs, what happens in the world, but interpretation of that
reality is subject to people’s perspectives and their own experiences of that
reality. Each person’s interpretation of reality is valid but there is always a
core truth of what happens. It is the why of the reality that is more
interesting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Enough of the
deep and heavy for now. I hope to revisit this in a future post and I hope my
thinking on the topic has become clearer in the meantime.</span><br />
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<span class="s1">✅Finance</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">It has taken 57 days from my original appointment with the bank to
today to secure finance for our new house. It has taken 47 days from the
pre-approval offer of finance on the day we signed the contract to our new
house (waiving our cooling-off period) to today’s signed mortgage agreement for
a significantly lower amount. We are extremely grateful that the owner of our
new house wanted a long settlement and that we are in a position where we can
call upon help to meet the shortfall in funds, embarrassing though. We are also
very fortunate to have bought a house a year after selling our previous home. This
year of a falling residential property market in Sydney (and elsewhere) has
allowed us to buy a house reasonably close to where we already are, instead of following
our original plans of moving much further out. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Yet, we could not have been looking for finance at a worse time in
recent history. It used to be so easy when we were on double income and banks believed
the low spending one reported. According to the banks I have zero annual income,
since I am currently a casual teacher who hasn’t worked since October. It doesn’t
matter that I was travelling and Christmas holidays occurred in the meantime.
According to most banks, scholarship money doesn’t count as income, but then that
turned out to be a blessing since I didn’t retain it for the PhD anyway. Also,
unless I have filed a tax return for the respective period, my business income
doesn’t count since it could have expenses against it that result in a loss. As
a result of all this, our mortgage application had to rely solely on John’s
income. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">On the expense side of the equation, the <a href="https://treasury.gov.au/publication/p2019-fsrc-final-report/">Royal Commission into Misconductin the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry</a> has changed the
methods and madness of mortgage lending to now apply a microscope to bank and
credit card statements. We knew this ahead of time and kept to a very strict
budget for over three months to demonstrate our restraint. It wasn’t enough. A
couple of weeks ago the bank asked for six months of our statements, meaning the
last hoorah of spending that occurred just before our self-imposed recession, revealed
us as irresponsible rampaging revellers. To secure our much reduced mortgage we
had to cut-up all our credit cards! Since we had warning of that impending
disaster, we spent all the accumulated reward points on a large screen TV, a
sound bar, a microwave oven, a frypan, a slow cooker, a stick blender, a dust
buster, gift cards to Barbeques Galore and Myer, and a jigsaw puzzle. Of course
it would have been more financially effective to transfer the points to Velocity
frequent flyer points, if only we were intending to travel soon. Not on the
cards. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I actually think some of the changes in lending practices are
appropriate for safe lending by the banks. We have quite a good financial
system in Australia due to its regulatory practices but regulations haven’t
kept up with the consolidation of the various arms of the financial industry
and the increasingly creative ways of lending and earning fees on financial
products. However, as our Home Finance Manager kept trying to argue on our
behalf, credit managers should be looking at the person, not just the numbers.
It is quite obvious that I have a reasonable earning capacity at the moment,
even if the last three months show no steady income from a consistent source.
At the end of my PhD there’s a high likelihood I will return to a good solid
income, possibly higher than it was before, but that’s not included in the
assessment process. It is also clear that our ability to spend up last year was
due to access to the funds from selling a house, enabling my trip to Europe that
would otherwise not have occurred. I’m hoping that a sensible balance of facts
and figures with humans and hearts will be found one day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">For now, the finance fight is behind us. A few months down the
track, when I have a good recent record of casual teaching, we will apply for a
top-up of our loan. Then, when I return to full-time income, the goal is to install
an <a href="https://www.sunrisepools.com.au/gallery/wet-edge-pools/wet-edge-13/492">infinity pool</a> (exactly like the one in the hyperlink). Plans. I always have plans.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">P.S. Our bank shares went up 7% yesterday. The stock market influencers
obviously expected a more damning report from the Royal Commission: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/feb/06/bankers-are-never-going-to-be-punished-for-their-dead-eyed-corruption?CMP=soc_567&fbclid=IwAR3VYE1HSIHj_yxajrVlWmtgUVMYU7HPLFbyZ0LnaxIQrKrTQNN0Xqpi6bk">“All you need to know is that when the report came out…bank shares went up.”</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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after the production. <i><a href="https://www.sydneytheatre.com.au/whats-on/productions/2019/mary-stuart">Mary Stuart</a> </i>by the Sydney Theatre Company (STC) was
written by Kate Mulvany, based on an original play by Friedrich Schiller from
200 years ago. We were at the first of the preview nights, with the official
opening coming up on Saturday. The Director, Lee Lewis, gave a brief
introduction before the lights went down at the beginning, stating how nervous
she was feeling. During the final bows, the cast appeared more relieved than
any other emotion, like joy or satisfaction.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Other than being slightly stilted, possibly from the lengthy lines
only recently memorised, the acting was excellent, particularly the two leads
as the female foes, and a newcomer to STC, Fayssal Bazzi, who played Mortimer.
I hope his featured tatts are only temporary. The set was appropriately stark
and creatively utilised. Even when just one or two characters were on stage it
felt like it was a filled space. Emails were sent a day or two before the
performance to warn of “sexual violence, blood, loud sound effects and
theatrical haze”. The performance commenced in complete darkness with repeated loud
metallic banging that made me startle in the first instance, less in the second
and little thereafter. The height and intensity of many other people’s reactions
were more than mine. There were also other points in the play that indicated they
hadn’t read this warning, yet I didn’t detect anyone leaving midway. It was a
little over the top for the action it was meant to represent, particularly when
similar jarring sounds were used for a more appropriate action later in the
proceedings. This is really the only objection I had to the staging aspects of
the play.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Before attending this production, I only had a vague understanding
of the relationship between Mary, Queen of Scots, and Elizabeth I, Queen of
England, as friends and foes. The play examined the judgment of Mary as a
traitor to the English crown but provided context quite smoothly so a
historical background wasn’t necessary. However, as we left, I overheard other
members of the audience surprised at the amount of religion discussed. I
thought the Catholic versus Protestant part of the history was handled very
well, except I felt some of the comparisons weren’t terribly accurate representations
of the religions. I am happy to let that slide but I’m sure there will be
plenty of protestations if there are blatant inaccuracies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mary and Elizabeth stand out in the history of their time,
surrounded by the patriarchal order in which they ruled. The director announced
in her opening remarks how pleased she was with the feminist perspective Kate
Mulvaney had applied in the adaptation. I found the feminism lens was applied
on a macro setting throughout. I enjoyed the modern filthy language used by the
queens and the current feminist awareness of their world situated in 16<sup>th</sup>
Century history. However, at times it was overly laboured with lengthy
monologues. It worked much better in snappy dialogue or in broader discussion.
There were some witty quips such as that there wasn’t enough room in the world
of men for two powerful women. It reminded me of a Geena Davis talk I attended where
she said research had revealed men perceive boardrooms as having 50% women when
they had only reached one third representation. In the program, Kate Mulvany
pointed out the constant rivalry media make up between two strong women, Meghan
Markle and Kate Middleton being prime examples at the present, and how this
helped to motivate her writing of the script. Too often because positions of
power are granted to men as a priority the women competing for them are set up
as foes to each other more than they are to the men. It sometimes seem women
can only have token representation and when they try to claim more than a tokenistic
role they are shut down by the ruling patriarchy, much like the currently crumbling
Liberal Party at the federal level.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Another good line came from Elizabeth when she declared that she
could predict the behaviour of powerful men but having a powerful woman as a
foe was difficult because it was without precedent. It is like the
representations of women in film and their action figures (see this <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/may/01/black-widow-superhero-avengers-marvel-universe-toys-gender">article</a>
about Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow in The Avengers). We need more women
representation so it stops being a big deal when Lego produces a <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/18/16491956/lego-women-of-nasa-nancy-grace-roman-margaret-hamilton-sally-ride-mae-jemison">Women of NASA</a>
range. When Wonder Woman came out it was celebrated for centring on a female
action figure. Never mind that she had to be supported by a group of men to conquer
at the end. I’ve always loved the Joss Whedon quote saying he learnt to answer
the question, “Why do you write these strong female characters?” with “Because
you’re still asking me that question”. I was gutted to read that he is
apparently just another powerful man who cheated on his wife with younger women
who worked for him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><i>Mary Stuart</i> was not a great production at this first preview but
as the actors settle into their roles and a rhythm, I sure hope it will bloom
into brilliance. As much as I felt feminism was being hammered home at times, as
the cast relax, so may the stilted delivery and the message become more
measured. Even if it doesn’t improve in this way, I believe it is necessary to have
closer look at history like this, and current life, with a feminist eye,
whether it be in popular culture, religion, politics or literature. Women are
half of the world and we need to claim it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">PS Read Ian Dickson's scathing <a href="https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/abr-arts/101-arts-update/5321-mary-stuart">review of <i>Mary Stuart</i></a> in the Australian Book Review.</span></div>
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</style>Shanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11597797432165037197noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8057849163495457740.post-72517236132596980752019-02-05T14:31:00.000+11:002019-02-05T14:32:59.686+11:00Fab Feb - A Funk<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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✅Fitness <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "lora" , serif; font-size: 16px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "lora" , serif; font-size: 16px;">- #28bysamwood ‘Fired Up’</span><br />
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<span class="s1">✅Fire alarm avoided</span><br />
<span class="s1">✅Fun with Kristen Bell (Veronica Mars) and Brooklyn Nine Nine </span><br />
<span class="s1"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">❌</span></span>In a funk<br />
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The good news is that today I completed my #28bysamwood fitness routine,
had an alcohol free day and ate reasonably healthily (cheese and crackers were cleaned up a bit). Mentally and emotionally though, I
was in a bit of a funk. They say exercise releases endorphins but it hasn’t
been my experience. For years after a session at the gym, particularly with a
personal trainer, I’d just want to cry at the end. It wasn’t relief or pain. I
think it was the feeling of failure. I know that I am supposed to feel good
that I made any effort in the first place but the effort was so much, well,
effort. And it was to do something which I did not enjoy, made me feel bad
about myself and was incredibly tiring. Most of the time I don’t feel like
crying anymore and I feel good about my effort but I still don’t like it, I
still feel bad about myself and I still feel incredibly tired afterwards.<br />
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Delaying yesterday’s post until this morning put my day out by an
hour or so. That meant I exercised later than planned, had breakfast later than
planned and then thought, what’s the point of going to uni today. You see, I
was in a bit of a funk today. I think it is partly due to thinking about my
Grandma and Nanna after writing about them this morning, not that I really
wrote about who they were. They were both wonderful human beings who were loved
by all who knew them and I’m lucky they were in my life for as they were. I
think I was also in a funk because today is meant to be the official start of my
PhD. Ta-da! <a href="https://youtu.be/0PfB16pyrBk">Sound the trumpets</a>! But my supervisor emailed this morning to say
he can’t see me until next week. I also have an overdue library book which I’m
feeling guilty about and the scholarship failure is hitting me hard, emotionally and financially. Speaking of which, another
contributor to the funk is the fighting for finance is nearing its end. The
bank isn’t lending us as much as we need but we are able to call upon help
elsewhere. This, we hope, will only be temporary because we should be able to
renegotiate the amount when I have a few casual teaching days on the board. The
bank sees me as earning no income because I haven’t received a pay slip in the
last three months. Travel and Christmas holidays mean nothing to banks.
Business invoices I have issued in the last three months (supported by the
money deposited in my bank account) don’t count because they are not part of a
tax return yet, which would indicate if the business income is outweighed by
expenses or not.<br />
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Anyway, enough of the self-pity. I indulged my funk with a
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0412253/?ref_=nv_sr_1">Veronica Mars</a> binge festival. I adore Kristen Bell. She makes <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4955642/?ref_=nv_sr_1">The Good Place</a>
work, she is funny in the YouTube Momsplaining (see YouTube clip above) and I even loved her as the voiceover
in <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0397442/?ref_=nv_sr_1">Gossip Girl</a>. She has the right balance of wit and sass while being down to
earth. She keeps it real. Slowly through the day I began to feel more real too.<br />
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For dinner I roasted pork with lots of vegetables but failed at
the crackling. It was underdone when everything else was ready so left it in
the oven until smoke poured out. Oops! We’re better off without it. We all
rushed around opening windows and turning on fans to avoid the obnoxious smoke
alarm piercing our eardrums.
We finished the evening with the first four episodes of <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2467372/?ref_=nv_sr_4">BrooklynNine-Nine</a> Season 6 via SBS on Demand. The humour and hanging with the family
freed me from my funk and I slept well.</div>
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