It's a funny thing but I'm quite unhappy at work at the moment but it's all down to things that are apparently designed to make things better ... that disgusting word initiatives .

We are muddling up our year 11 groups into sets for six lessons out of sync in order to give them FOCUSED teaching. At the moment they are scared, confused and trying to work out what each of them are predicted and instead of planning for six lessons I am planning for nine. I am supposed to be observed at some point to help me progress but nothing actually has happened. We have to enter our grades directly onto the school system but we have no server yippee. ANyway enough of that.

I'm guessing I feel like this because I'm ill. Stuck down by a March cold/cough etc. Problem is I either get them mildly and they last for weeks or I get them for ten days and get completely felled back them. This is a felling one.

I have a limited voice range at the moment and glugging water bottle after orange juice bottle. The ironic thing was I thought it was just a chest infection. Oh no, I couldn't be allowed to get away with that, this morning woke up with a subsidary branch of the River Cam diverting to my nose. Excessively annoying.

Although I have to say that it's not the dripping nose, the constant coughing up of things, the tissues, the lack of voice that annoys me. It's the no sense of smell or taste

I have been ridiculously ill this school year so far. Four days off! (two burns outs, one gone voice and one no sleep for three days) Ridiculous. I will simply muddle through this one.

In other news I saw Watchmen with the Elite Geek Force. *no spoilers* I gave it a 7.5. A very well-chosen soundtrack and very nice cinematography in the film. The guys who created it have done so like a precious baby and the sets appear painstakingly crafted (loads of little things to please the geek squad ^_^). It sticks almost rigidly close to the original, practically lifting the script and sets from the graphic novel itself. The effects are extremely good and the CGI isn't too obvious which is always good (the updating of the costumes was also welcome, I don't think I could have taken the original costumes seriously).
I was glad to see that they didn't stick to child-friendly it as what has happened in earlier adaption films, however in places they went to the opposite extreme almost crossing into ultra-violence. After a while it began to be violent for the sake of being violent (in particular, the angle grinder was unnecessary). What else lacked marks for me was that, despite the actors being good there was a certain lack of character depth which I didn't feel there was in the graphic novel. Chracters motivations can across as a little flat and it was almsot if we could have sacrificed a little of the time dwelt on the plot in order to have more rounded characters.
So all in all worth a watch but ensure you don't kick over your large coke, like I did. wh00ps

Back to attempting to plan ... without seeing double