Monday ran away...

[haldoor.livejournal.com]

And just like that, it's no longer Monday... sorry, folks, but thems the breaks, right? Monday was pretty flat-out with work, and I was on dinner duty after that, and yesterday was no better! The great thing is that I finished one piece of complicated work yesterday - after having it on the go for well over a month (most of my work is 1-2 week jobs, and sometimes only a day)! You can see why I was thrilled to have it done AT LAST. I had begun to think it was never going to end! Anyway, today was supposed to be a nice bit of straight-forward work that I could finish in one day, but there was an unforeseen complication that I needed to get advice on... That has meant there is a bit of a work-around to be completed, which involves another area of my department, and I have to wait for them to do their bit before I can finish my bit, so that's dragging it out to tomorrow at least. Oh well, at least there's a solution that's doable!

And enough of my woes... how is YOUR week going? hopefully "work" (whatever it does or doesn't entail for you) has been productive, and you are getting WORDS in!

I have not done words yet again, though I did manage to make some icons a couple of weekends ago. They are lounging around, unposted, waiting for me to find time to do just that. BUT I will be counting them at least! And no, the count for April is not done yet *sigh*, but I will get to that, and another Original Fic post, soon! That, in case you missed it, is our current long challenge that runs to the end of May! Join us - we're all having fun thinking about original stories, if not actually writing any! ;-)

Big Buddies, you should be at the 22% mark of your monthly goal about now. How is that looking for you? Need any help or encouragement?

The Daily Count challengers need a mention - WOOHOO! You are all going great guns!

Your Flash Challenge for today is: "I could easily change my mind about you." courtesy of Carly Simon (10 points to anyone who can name the song!)

What else? Oh, prompts galore! Check back over the last week for ALL THE THINGS! You know by now what they are, right? All the daily words, the weekly challenges, the weekend challenge! Anything else I missed? Bound to be - so make free with our wonderful comm, and create from any and all of the prompts you like!

And that's me. I'm about to keel over, exhausted, so I think I'd better fall down before I fall down. *waves*

Comments

[haldoor.livejournal.com]

Phew, that sounds like a LOT! I hope you survive year end - I find it so hard to imagine having it in May, since it's in December for the school year here (as summer arrives, naturally), and it can be CRAZY even without being a teacher!

Glad you enjoyed your 'kidnapped' weekend, anyway!

I'm sorry you haven't got to write any orig. fic, but I'm sure you'll get there when things quieten down some! Smaller goals do make sense when you're always busy!

Good luck with the doctoral program 🤞

[shanachie-quill.livejournal.com]

We're down to ten days, but I only have three days of classes. Mondays are my planning day anyway. Then I have a professional development on Friday so I won't have any classes (or even be in the building) that day.

A lot of our schools up North finish in June. Makes sense yours is in December if that's when summer starts. When do you go back then?

I greatly enjoyed my 'kidnapped' weekend. It was nice to get out of town and just be away.

I got about 100 words on my original fic! And asphaltcowgrrl looked at it and gave me some suggestions to improve it. It's a little weird for me because I'm rewriting (and pretty much ignoring the original) a story I wrote back in 1995.

Thank you. I should know by a week from today.

[haldoor.livejournal.com]

School starts at the end of January/early Feb here, with university usually not starting till end of Feb/early March.

[shanachie-quill.livejournal.com]

That's wild. It runs through our summer, but that makes sense since it's your winter. Does your university have a shorter year than regular school?

[haldoor.livejournal.com]

Yep! They sit exams around November, just like senior high school - senior here being the last three years of high school, and junior being the first two (also different from the US, obviously!) We don't use the words "freshman" and "sophomore" at high school, nor even really at uni, as we tend to just call them first year, second year and third year for bachelor's degree students. There's a lot of other differences with school too, no doubt, as Kindergarten here is pre-school (3-4 yrs old) and school goes from Year 0/1 (depending on whether the child starts before or after mid-year) all the way to Year 13. Typically 1-6 is "Primary" school, 7-8 is "Intermediate" and 9-13 is "Secondary" colloquially called "High School" or "College" depending on which is in the name of your school (my kids and I went to the same high school, while my husband attended a different high school, so we've always called Secondary school as high school, but friends who's school was called "---" College, call all Secondary school college! And uni is never called college here!

Always interesting to learn about other countries - we, of course, get so many movies & TV shows from the US, that we've pretty much learned all we need to guess at equivalents there, whereas you would hardly have been exposed to any NZ shows to show much about our schooling!

[shanachie-quill.livejournal.com]

That makes sense. Honestly, I wish we started in January and went through the summer because it would make things less confusing I think. Our school years normally emcompass two actual years. For example, this past year was August 2024 to May 2025 (I write on the last official day of this year.) Which means the trophy, my Robotics team won in December says 2024, even though their competitions were in December of 2024 and January/February of 2025. Makes people say "Oh, you won that last year..." which we did, but this school year.

Wow that's a lot. Love learning the differences. Huh Kindergarten at 3-4? Ours starts at age 5. I honestly wish they had more structure towards how the school system works country-wide. Because our schools are run at the state/county/city level, there can be a lot of differences.

College and University can be the same thing here. Colleges are normally smaller and less expensive, while Universities are large and cost more. (Except in Georgia, where all the universities are state run... but that doesn't mean that they are all the same.)

I'd love to see more movies/TV about other countries' schools. I will say one thing, please don't base all of your ideas on how US schools work on movies/tv. They are absolutely NOT that way! LOL I will watch and be like "nope. never happen." Although from what I understand Abbott Elementary is very close. I need to watch it (or try to) so see how correct it is.