(Yeah, I imagine that last post will make your screen go weird like it did mine.)

I’m sat here writing reports, feeling better then I did Friday, and thinking about all the things I’d like to do if I had the time. As well as the things I’d like to undo – maybe there are things I’d like to ‘unlearn’ too.

I’m thinking about the things I would have liked to write about if I’d had the time. Especially with regards to schools and teaching and that sort of stuff.

Especially as my year long contract comes to an end on Tuesday and I really haven’t had the time to think about it with reports to write. Writing reports has been stressful, arduous even. I’ll be glad when it’s done. Sometime late tonight hopefully. The year has flown by and in some ways has ended strangely, with the teacher I was covering for coming back for the last 4 weeks. It’s felt less and less like my class and the last week I’ve felt in some strange kind of limbo, neither in nor out. It’s been hard to commit to things feeling like that.

Roll on Xmas! A swim there right now would just be nice.

Looking at mum’s photos (http://www.flickr.com/photos/suechotoye/), there was one thing that occurred to me today. The importance of family.

Where in I write about what I’m doing today.

Listening to Rumble Strips – Not the only person and a short snippet of Goldsmith – Under the sheets.

Update: the Rumble Strips video has gone. Well it hasn’t, it’s just they’re a British band. I’m in Britain. Copyright restrictions mean I can’t watch the video. Replaced with a Vimeo link.

Bit gutted about the former as they played the Guildhall recently and even though Mark Ronson made it sound good (I just don’t know why that annoys me, it shouldn’t but there we go). Heard on 6Music.

The latter I have started listening to again because… Well I don’t know why. I mentioned her here http://chotoye.com/blog/2009/03/09/ellie-goulding but have downloaded a few more tracks of hers (links here > http://youfunkinloveit.blogspot.com/2009/06/interview-with-ellie-goulding.html). Just no talk of things being released or shows… yet. We’ll see.

Picked up two books in the library, one I was sure I had read before and the other by an author I had recently read another book by. Turns out I was wrong and had already taken the one out that I thought I hadn’t and the one I thought I had I hadn’t. I got both anyway. I’m awful for getting lots of books out and then not reading them.

Libraries are hard, having to judge books by their covers. Still, as I walked away – another reason for leaving Gloucester is that I have looked at the Sci-Fi/Fantast section in Gloucester Library far too often and do perhaps need something new.

I went to Gloucester Quays today and deliberately didn’t go in the Cadbury’s Store. It was ok, quite busy with lots of places still to open and the coffee shops were busy. I liked the photos on the empty shops best. As I walked in I thought – this is what you those dystopian futures will look like.

I nearly went to see Transformers 2 today – LOL.

Just about to buy Braid which has one awards all over the place and plaudits and everyone loves it. It’s a platform-puzzle game but but but but you can go go back in time, so you don’t ever die. The point is solving the puzzles. It’s really good. Which is why I am paying for it. Watch the trailer > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqtSKkyJgFM

I don’t know if I’m annoyed by moving the keyboard around. When I look I constantly get a few keys wrong. On my keyboard yui are actually IYN. I should swap that. I should.

Ok I’ve lost interest now. You could have got most of this by following me on Twitter you know… twitter.com/cho. it’s not complicated if my mum can use it – no offense mum!

I quite like this one.

Ze Frank is awesome.

Edit: Balanescu Quartet – Hanging Upside Down

I got this off iTunes this morning after I worked out how to download it. So thanks to Pam and Mike for my present. I paid for it, Pam and Mike paid for it. I feel a whole lot richer.

Was listening to 6Music a whole lot last night, playing all sorts of interesting stuff. I know that this song won’t appeal to all…

Have upgraded Joey’s iMac to Leopard. Now going to wash up and then do some reports and then clear some files off of it.

I think it’s just hit me that this time tomorrow, both Han and Joe will be gone. Hannah going didn’t seem to really affect me too much – I mean she’s always going off!

I suppose before there’s always been someone around – except that’s not the case is it? There was the time both Han and Joe were in Mauritius. It’s only for a couple of weeks before mum is here in any case. In any case it feels different right now, still fuzzy from Friday, reports to do, my contract only have 2 weeks left to go and now Han and Joe both leaving in such a short space of time.

I’ll be honest, I didn’t realise that the ‘The Gloucester Eye’ even existed. I don’t tend to follow the local news around our way at all. So the first I knew about it was when I went for a drink down the docks on Friday. Anyway, I’m not the only person to tag it as the ‘Gloucester Eye‘ on Flickr – this photo especially is just awesome.

Anyway, in one the photos that person has taken this photo of a residents group objecting to the Ferris Wheel. Residents have put a website > http://www.fightheferriswheel.co.uk/default.htm about it.

The main reason I’m blogging about it is because i quite like their logo! Though they could have worked in the docks perhaps.

Jenga – Rushton Rules from Omar on Vimeo.

My blog goes back 4 years now and I still have no real idea what I’m doing with it. I keep throwing words at the internet and a few people keep reading them. I’ve lost track of the number of other blogs I have had and have. There are a few dotted around, some private, some that have just fallen quiet and some that I’ve deleted. This one has remained though, mostly because it’s the most public. Though that has resulted in it being a certain way because of it. I tried to find someone online over the weekend and couldn’t but well, I’m easily found.

Anyway, the point is – it feels like things are changing at the minute. Maybe they are or maybe it’s the same as it ever was. Still there are degrees of privacy, so I’m going to write a bit more here but password protect it. Well, just in case. Happy to share that with anyone that wants it.

but sometimes don’t

1. Untie my laces before taking my shoes off.
2. Eat lunch
3. Turn off the computer more often
4. Spend more time, actively focusing on one thing
5. Drink more water

Update:
6. Not reply to everything instantly. There’s no need.