That was always so painful. Enduring extreme boredom was however the most useful skill I learned in school. I suspect I would have been better served by learning to actively work to achieve things instead, but that was generally discouraged.

Well, the worst was one who enjoyed failiing people, so would set tests that were really hard to pass. And then he would do things like mark you wrong on things you got right just to make sure you got a fail.

One had a habit of telling you your draft work was great and then failing you on the final copy. She did that to a couple of students I know on a compulsory project for a compulsory VCE subject that meant they had to repeat Year 12. I had her for Year 11 psychology, a subject which was not offered until enough students lobbied for it that they changed the curriculum. Over half that enthusiastic class dropped it after the first semester with her teaching.

Some of it was just general contempt for us as people - like making us stay out in the rain during class breaks because they didn’t want the hassle of declaring it a “wet day” which allowed us to use classrooms on breaks.

Some were just incompetent, like the accounting teacher that could only set work from the book and mark it against a scoring guide but didn’t actually understand the material in the slightest.

The best teachers I had were what I would consider should be the minimum standard - they taught coherently and didn’t seem to actually hate the students.

I would have been happy if they just stopped trying to make the experience worse.

Air conditioner has been aquired, but I will wait until tomorrow to wrestle it in from the car & plug it in etc. It looks in great nic, has all the bits and has even been stored with a dust cover on. Seller was a nice older guy who is getting rid of stuff in preparation for moving to Japan later this year.

I got my angles all wrong reversing into the driveway when I got home and needed to make multiple attempts before I got in. Fortunately there was no traffic, and everyone in the area is used to watching inept drivers try to master basic parking maneuvers as we are in a license testing area.

It’s a problem with multi-tasking. So much brain power used in fake vanilla vigilence there is not enough left to track the threads properly.

That’s why I have a very low tolerance policy for anything that gives me weird vibes. I’m sure I disregard a lot of people that would have been legit sales but it’s not worth the risk that someone who strikes a wrong chord will escalate into that.

Try a third coffee, that will have you so motivated you’ll be bouncing off the walls.

Source: the lady at work who had three coffees today

40/50 😁

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Just saw the best story about selling on Marketplace

Probably around 90% chance someone set off a building alarm.

My old car was Huey, based on the numberplate UEE.

New van can probably be Todd, as the mnemonic I’m using to remember the new numberplate is whisky + tea, which is a hot toddy.

Traditionally cars are supposed to have female names for some reason (or at least that was what I was told growing up) but with equality and all I think boy names should be fine.

I have just bought myself a second hand portable air conditioner on eBay. I’m a bit spoiled where I am with airconditioner coverage in most of the house, but the rental places generally don’t have more than a single room covered. I have seen some stuff about adapting vent covers to pull intake air from outside to make the portable units more efficient, so it will be interesting to see if that works - apparently a major reason they don’t work as well as inbuilt is because the hot air being exhausted outside causes a vacuum which pulls fresh (hot) air into the room, many units sold overseas have a second vent for that air intake, but for some reason they don’t sell them with that configuration in Australia.

Even if that doesn’t work out it should be efficient enough to let me sleep in hot weather, and it was a good price only 5 mins away from work to pick up. Now I just have to actually get a property to put it in. They have contacted references so that’s a start, but it is one of the places you apply before you can inspect the property, so even if approved at this stage it is still just a short list. It does indicate the application wasn’t just thrown in the bin due to having pets or something though, so I guess it is positive news. I’m trying not to become too attached to the idea of this specific place, but I’m mentally working out where all the furniture goes and how I’ll decorate, so I guess that’s not really working 🤣

Congratulations, welcome to the new car club! Is is new new, or new to you?

That sounds like the opposite of my VW Caddy Maxi. Isn’t it nice there are so many different options to suit all of us different people?

Well, I am nearly out of brandy. But I’ll wait until I’m ready to make another fruit cake before getting that. Otherwise I am boozefree^tm

I think the dog’s kibble covers that.

Chocolate falls under the want, not need category 🤣

I bought an excessively large bulk pack of dish detergent a while ago and definitely don’t need more of that (and have dishwasher powder on the order already). I also have bulk delivery of toilet paper so should be right for those.

I’m putting together my shopping order and feel like there is something I wanted to get that I’ve forgotten. No idea what, I’ll probably remember when I need whatever it was.