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alt_sinistra) wrote2011-07-04 07:31 pm
alt_sinistra) wrote2011-07-04 07:31 pm
A busy day!
I'm off visiting the CCF programme this week (I am not directly in charge, but I'm handy to help sort out housing and food details, and that sort of thing). Everyone seems to be settling in well enough. Students have a very busy and full schedule in front of them, but I'm confident that they'll thrive.
I've spent the past several weeks catching up on all manner of things that needed doing, including an extended visit to my parents, for a little bit of a breather before the complexities of the YPL activities. Mum and I had an extended conversation about some of the research she's been doing: I could not persuade her to post some recipes, so I'll be doing so myself as I get some time.
I've had a couple of days in New London, mostly taken up by meetings, but I'm looking forward to a bit longer in between the YPL visits, and am looking forward to seeing some more of the sites. I'm almost wondering if I should take up a lease on a flat for the next month or two just to make it easier to manage.
I've spent the past several weeks catching up on all manner of things that needed doing, including an extended visit to my parents, for a little bit of a breather before the complexities of the YPL activities. Mum and I had an extended conversation about some of the research she's been doing: I could not persuade her to post some recipes, so I'll be doing so myself as I get some time.
I've had a couple of days in New London, mostly taken up by meetings, but I'm looking forward to a bit longer in between the YPL visits, and am looking forward to seeing some more of the sites. I'm almost wondering if I should take up a lease on a flat for the next month or two just to make it easier to manage.
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Quite pleased, given that some of the material is quite new to me - and some of it, I'm not sure I'd have chosen to teach to students this age, but the Ministry feels it knows best. I do what I can to make various points about what they've covered in classes and what's several steps ahead of them. At the same time, after the past year (and the previous one, for that matter) it's hard to argue that more defense training, and even offensive spell work wouldn't be useful.
Your colleagues from St. Mungo's who are teaching strike me as very competent, though, which is reassuring, in case anything does go off.
Mum sends her regards, and I've a few more things for you to look at from her research when I see you next. (They take some explaining, or I'd just owl them.)
Having time with her was very good - after such a horrible end of term, it was good to be somewhere less demanding for a little bit. I did take a day or two to go walking in the area, with our old tent, and that was good too, to actually be alone for a bit. I spent a slightly absurd amount of that time in tears, but better when by myself than earlier, I suppose.