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Sadly I have been at work all day but now chilling out waiting for my fiancé to finish bowling with a hot chocolate and my kindle.

Sadly I have been at work all day but now chilling out waiting for my fiancé to finish bowling with a hot chocolate and my kindle.

Well that isn't such a bad way to wait. I am quite tempted to make a hot chocolate myself now

I've been stuck doing irish oral examinations all day so no reading was done at all for me. Plus now I've to type up all my reports for them this evening and prep for more stuff tomorrow :( .

Actually, I did give a student a loan of a book to read, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, so that should count :)

They gave become an obsession of mine the past year or so. Costa do an amazing caramel hot chocolate.

Sounds like hell Kevin. I have to do a two hour presentation tomorrow so all fun ahead.
Might join you guys in a hot chocolate

In fairness to them they are getting much better at speaking it each time I do it. How are you finding the new job Paul? Tough going at first I imagine.

Yeah, just trying to orientate myself. Its a nice enough office and looks like I'll be kept busy

That sounds good :) Usually takes a little while to settle in to something new anyhow.

I have been out at a conference the last couple of days and had a fairly nightmare-ish meeting in which I wasn't really sure what was expected of me. Following up those joys tomorrow with about half a day of meetings and about 3 days of work to complete in 1/2 to 1 day... but then it is the weekend and I can relax :)

Ahh that sounds grim Kevin, did you have a fortifying cup of tea with you? How long are you doing all these exams for or is it just this week?

Lel - oh it is a Costa special? Sounds a lot nicer than my instant hot chocolate!

It'll take me a couple of weeks Freya but once a get a decent run of work to do It'll be grand.

Thankfully I had several cups of tea to keep me going, Freya. I'll be doing it every week until the end of April and then it will be an emphasise on on the written side of the language. Today wasn't as bad as other days but it was constant from 9am until 5.30pm today except for a thirty minute break. Beidh mé as mo mheabhair!

In fairness, your week sounds pretty tough going :(, make sure to take plenty of book breaks!

"Cad is ainm duit?"
"what .........."
How often did that happen today

Paul wrote: ""Cad is ainm duit?"
"what .........."
How often did that happen today"

Once only. The small triumph I had today was that they all answered "Dia is Muire duit" to "Dia duit", I was a happy camper. At the same time some students did make up a new branch of Franco-Gaeilge. Ah well, cuir síoda ar ghabhar agus is gabhar i gcónaí é. (put silk on a goat and it's still a goat) :(

I spent my work day trying not to fall asleep reading a research study on the effectiveness of education while trying to work out how to replicate it on a much smaller timescales and limited resources (i still have more to read so know what i'm doing in work tomorrow) - by the time my work day ended i didn't feel like reading any more :(

Lynne wrote: "I spent my work day trying not to fall asleep reading a research study on the effectiveness of education while trying to work out how to replicate it on a much smaller timescales and limited resour..."

Oh, that doesn't sound fun. Better luck for the weekend!

First week of the new job over and I'm still alive. Sadly just out of a two hour meeting that stretched to 3 and a half hours

Keep in mind - It's Friday!!!

Freya wrote: "Roger - could it be a... sign? (ok, sorry I couldn't resist that one)

@Leigh - that sounds amazing :) I know people with gluten allergies, I really ought to learn some good recipes!"

If you have recipes you already like, just try switching out the wheat flour with a general purpose gluten free flour. Also watch out for baking powder(replace with baking soda, but use less...) for a gluten free goodie. Since I'm just sensitive, it's no big deal if a little gluten sneaks its way in my food, but for some people this is serious problem! My specialty is fruit or chocolate chip muffins from scratch :D

Just finished my first week at the new job and survived, had to report a coworker for harassment, though. Ugh!!!

How awful! Hang in there. :(

Oh gosh, that's horrible! Hope it gets sorted :(

Thats not fun Abrea. No one harrassed me thankfully.

He got a talking to, yesterday and I believe this company only gives one warning. We will see if he figures out he should leave me alone or not. At least the rest of my coworkers are nice and the training is going well.

Fingers crossed it pans ok.

Sounds like the company is taking this seriously - I'm glad for you!

Just want to apologise for not engaging much with the group recently - with less than 8 weeks to go until D-Day I'm finding it hard to concentrate on anything!

Hoping for a return in my maternity leave pre-baby! 2 weeks to go!

Oh Kirsty, you don't have to apologise, you're about to embark on an exciting new chapter in your life :D

Kirsty wrote: "Just want to apologise for not engaging much with the group recently - with less than 8 weeks to go until D-Day I'm finding it hard to concentrate on anything!

Hoping for a return in my maternity ..."

No apology required Kirsty

Two weeks to go - wow!!!

Ahhh you must be very excited (though equally all I can think of is Michael McIntyre saying "Get this baby out of me!" :P )

I have a few days at uni this week so I'm trying to cram all the reading I should have been doing into tonight! :S Silly Freya!

Freya wrote: "Ahhh you must be very excited (though equally all I can think of is Michael McIntyre saying "Get this baby out of me!" :P )

I have a few days at uni this week so I'm trying to cram all the reading..."

It wouldn't be college if everyone did the readings as they were suppose to. Procrastination always wins.

Very true... but that never makes me feel any better! My good intentions always fall by the wayside if the matter is not the most fascinating... that combined with the majority of academic paper writing styles lead to better outcomes than a sleeping tablet... speaking of which *yawn*, time to visit the land of nod :)

I remember a lot of good intentions and even more coffee from my college days....

Apologies for the delay in BoTM announcements!

I am now on Mat Leave - its been a hectic week! :)

Hope everyone is well!

Huzzah!! Can you relax now? Or are there still lots of things to do? :)

I can mostly relax, but still things to do like washing baby clothes, getting hospital bag ready - planning a home birth but got to be prepared! Tidying and cleaning the house up. And plenty of time putting my (swollen) feet up! The joys of pregnancy haha

Oh Kirsty I bet you can't wait! :)

P.S. I don't know if I ever told you, but your wedding looked GORGEOUS. Those photos are so wonderful.

I'm really excited to meet little Babot :D Mixed feelings of fear and excitement though haha!

And thank you about our wedding - I was so so pleased with the photography, and generally the whole day! It fulfilled all my expectations!

The joys of pre motherhood! Your photos were lovely Kirsty, Kit Berry is a mutual friend of ours on FB so I as she liked them it came up in my feed.

Ah cool no worries and thank you! :D

Are you a Stonewylder Paul? Or just generally a reader of the series?

I had added them to read as they are set in Dorset, haven't quite got around to reading them yet though...

They're a great series - not usually my cup of tea but I greatly enjoyed them. I'm a Dorset girl, and can deffo see the inspiration.

Rinn wrote: "A post for blabbering on about anything and everything!

Right now I'm in a such a reading slump =( I'm barely 1/3rd through Lies of Locke Lamora, I started Dune in the hopes that switching books w..."

Don't give up on Dune. :)

Haha, I gave up on Dune, sorry :P

Ho Ho Ho... I see what you did there GoodReads

KINDLR - The new GoodReads Dating App

Haha I love it, especially the first example, and would actually totally use it if it was real...

Best one I've heard today , but funnily enough it would probably go down quite well.

Gollancz festival details for later this year. I watched a lot of the podcasts from last year and they made great viewing, highlights for me being Brandon Sanderson , Scott Lynch and Ben Aaronovitch

Kirsty wrote: "Ho Ho Ho... I see what you did there GoodReads

KINDLR - The new GoodReads Dating App"

Oh, I feel dumb...I thought it was a real thing! I always forget that April Fool's is about jokes, because it's also my dad's birthday.

Funnily enough it sounds like a lot of people would love to see it happen.:-)