Placement anxiety and so on

We are all supposed to be visiting our new schools tomorrow, and some poor souls still don't have a placement. Apparently, SEED has been brought in, although I can't imagine what they will do to remedy the situation. It's all been very stressful, even for those of us lucky enough to know where we're going. I took a trip to Ayrshire yesterday, so I know where I'm going tomorrow. I didn't quite believe the AA Route-planner thing when it said it was only 23 miles, but it is indeed!

I had the feeling I would be getting two crits this time, rather than the usual one, and so it has proved. In my last school I worked quite a lot with individual pupils, and whenever anyone asked them “Why are you getting help?”, the answer was invariably a self-deprecating “Because I'm a retard”. That is rather how I feel about my two crits! Ah well, at least I'm not the only one.

I made two films on Wednesday; one in my media class (I was the actor, in a thrilling 'trip to the coffee machine' plot), and one in my animation class, which has to be the most fun I have yet had at Jordanhill! This week is my last animation class, and we will all be producing a proper film, with music, sound-effects and so on. Still no ideas for the plot of that either, though.

There was much excitement in the Asda car park this morning, with many people gazing at some unspecified thing in the middle distance. I was going to get into my car and drive home when my curiosity got the better of me and I asked someone what everyone was looking at. Very glad I did, as it turned out one of the high flats was about to be blown up (how did they all know this???), so I hung around and witnessed it. Very spectacular!

My plan of doing all my reading for this week today, in the expectation that I'll have loads more to do after I find out tomorrow what I'll be teaching in the coming weeks, hasn't really come to much. No surprise there, really.