My left wrist gets very sore from this, a wrist support helps but my piano teacher says I'm always going to have a problem with it as I can just stretch an octave and one note with my hand on the piano. I've got'baby hands' according to most of my friends as I'm the smallest in my form (155cm tall) and have got size 5 ish feet.

Your the shortest at 155cm in year 9!!!?

I'm 140 cm(shortest), and the 2nd shortest person in my form is about 145cm or so. And that's in year 10!

Yep. That makes me feel better though. Maybe everyone here is just very tall. I think about 4 or 5 girls in our year are smaller than me (and a few of the boys, I wasn't counting them ) Some of yr 7 and 8 are taller than me though (and my sister in yr6 is!)

I'm 155cm and practically the shotest in the school (well not quite, but it's hard to find someone who isn't taller than me...)

I'm in 6th year and have 1st years literally looking down on me. They also like to ask, 'Are you really in 6th year? Aren't you a bit small...?' However it makes things such as hiding and not being noticed much easier - see it as a blessing!

i'm finished school, and at school i was one of the shortest. luckily i have some short friends, though. but at my first night at a club (not even a wild, scary club - one with intense pool players who were too concerned with their games to be drunk) i got asked for my id, very seriously, despite the club being pretty kosher.

I'll be 28 in a few days and yesterday got asked if I was over 16 at the cigarette counter (they had a new worker on...the rest of the staff fell about laughing)

A couple of years ago my boyfriend used to drop me off at the school I taught in. For a while his friends thought I was a student and he was a cradle snatcher

I'm 5'2, the shortest in my year, and yes there are taller year sevens. Can't figure out cm though!

The other day upon asking for a student ticket at the cinema I was asked if I was sixteen yet - otherwise, it was explained, I could get the cheaper child's ticket. I took the cheap ticket... I maintain that if I'm an adult on the trian I should be an adult in the pub! Why am I only an adult when it comes to me losing something, but not when it comes to gain?

When I first started teaching I used to regularly get stopped by teachers who didn't know me as I tried to enter the staff-room because they thought I was a pupil.

I'm the opposite - I'm not particularly tall, but I can wander in and out of staff areas easily !

Yes it can be a bit embarrassing at times! I try to take it as a compliment when it happens

Maybe I should start dressing more "teachery" - whatever that is

ARRRRGH!

Why oh why is today a bad music day !

I so wish I can sight-read rather than memorise, therefore I can actually play carousel. Also I wish today was the day I could play scales. Usually I'm good at it, today I was absolutely rubbish. =((

Hopfully tomorrow will be better!

Still having trouble with that music? Do you know anyone who could simplify it for you? Like a teacher or friend?

AAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!

AAAAGGGGHHHHH!!! AAAAAAAAGGGGGHHH!!!!!

AAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

AAAGGGHHH!!!!!

that's better

You ok Barry?

Yeah, piano problems Nicki. Will PM you.

AAAARRRGGGHHHH!!!

My ipod wont work and I dont have the reciepts as my brother brought it for me

ipod panic over... managed to reset it again

but still ARGH!

I've been removed from school again until further notice and my key worker has disappeared again!

what can you say...

ARGH! Stupid work people again!

I ranted back in October about our 'social team', who decided to do a raffle for Children in Need. It ended up with the expectation that each and every one of us would provide a prize for the raffle (either begged from company or provided at our own expense). I didn't provide anything, because I don't agree with our social committee being able to dictate to me which charities to support and how to do that. I wasn't the only one, and those who did gladly beg stuff got loads of stuff. So all was well.

Now, we've had a dept meeting and they've put up their timetable of 'social things' for the entire year. Children in Need again in November, and now of course we will have to top 2007's event

But we also have the alternation between Comic Relief and Sport Relief. This year it's the latter. And at the meeting they blithely said 'I know of a couple of exceptions, but I think we can all walk the one mile needed for the Sport Relief Mile'.

ARGH! I hate this because I feel really bad about not participating, but I really really don't like being told 'This is what we are doing and you WILL take part in it'.

Maizie, whenever I was faced with something like that, I said in my sternest voice "I'm sorry, that is not one of the charities I support."

It tended to do the trick.

ARGH Kids and Husbands. I don't know why I bother.

That's why pets are so much simpler Jo

I have a plaque that reads "The more people I meet, the more I love my cat"

**Hope everything works out for you, Morgan's Munchkin.**

GAH! Supposed to go over to my employer's HQ for a meeting today, about something with which I used to be involved about four years ago, have hardly touched since, and have forgotton most of what I ever knew, yet somehow my presence was still deemed essential. Halfway across Surrey, I received a phone call to say the meeting was cancelled. What a waste of most of a morning, especially as I just missed a train back home when returning, so had half an hour stuck at the station.

To add insult to injury, I'd made myself really unpopular on the train by taking my bike so that I could cycle up from the station to the office rather than get a taxi. Getting off one station sooner on the way home and cycling the last couple of miles was a great stress buster!

Still, on the plus side, I'm home in plenty of time to do some clarinet practice this afternoon, and to listen to the Ash Wednesday Choral Evensong on R3 (and to join in with the top Cs in the Allegri Miserere). Who says clouds don't have silver linings?

Having read some of the recent contributions, I realise my problems are nevertheless minor, so best wishes to those who have serious angst at present.

Morgan's Munchkin, sorry to hear your news . Take care of yourself
*hugs*

Debs - a real live choral evensong? on radio 3 - wow - thanks for the tip-off.

Ash wed radio 3 was my introduction to the Allegri mumble-mumble years ago - I'd bunked off school to get home for 4 in order to listen to Kings - never was a misdemeanour so well rewarded.

I have the same for my dog and pony!! I also have a sign in my car saying that "The perfect child is a rottweiler!!

And thanks

Yes. Better still, live CE broadcasts return to R3 on Wednesdays in the autumn <screams, this time for joy, in a bid to keep thread vaguely on-topic>

The looks you get when you try to take a bike on a train are almost comparable to a seven year old who won't put his school jumper and socks on when you're ready to go out of the door and its now time to get the little darlin's to school. Then your hubby complains that you might actually have to spend money keeping your car on the road for another year.

Tis true, the cats have been much better company today.

The car bill won't be too astronomical, and I will still have a car for another 12 months. Lady Penelope keeps running, thanks to the fact I'm prepared to stick my head under the bonnet and make sure she's continually topped up (not that she tends to burn oil) and generally look after her.

I might drive a beat-up M-reg Skoda, but she gets me from A-B and as it says on the key fob she's a FAB car.

Nothing wrong with older cars Jo

My little old KA is older than most of my friends cars (somehow they've all got really new ones), but I love it. It gets me from A to B just as well as theirs, and the insurance is cheaper - there's always an up side

Cherries!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Give me cherries!!!!!!!!!!!!

AAARRRRGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

*Hands cherries to barry*

Any reason why you have a sudden need for cherries?

Refers to this post I left on another thread yesterday MM.

I am having a slightly stressful week...

BAH.

Am broke, I won't have the money I thought I would to do several things with the house that desperately need doing...my phone is playing silly b*****s...I have too much to do and not enough time...

ARGH.

Been there, seen it, got a wardrobe of T-shirts, you have my sympathy Cyrilla...

Thanks Barry.

Things just not too good at the mo...

Sorry to hear that Cyrilla

hugs coming your way

Thanks guys

Arggghh My new (nov) printer has packed up and I need it desperately so I have to make a dash to the city tomorrow to try to get the shop to give me a replacement immediately although I know they are going to argue to fix it etc. leaving me without one for weeks when it's vital for my work

Also, I avoid people-politics as much as possible and suddenly I'm caught in the middle of an almighty row (because I'm so passive and sit on the fence) and now I have two 'groups' of nasty paranoid people telling me how to behave and what to say to the other group and I'm going to an event where both groups will clash ... with me in the middle. I'm dreading it but I have to go.

What on earth can I do? Why can't people leave me alone.. they play these silly games because they have nothing else going on in their lives and I'm about to be everybody's punch-bag for not 'taking sides'.

I think I'll emigrate to the moon.

I can't stand valentine's day. Enough said.

it will soon be over...

grrr. a friend (yep, friend, but... i have boundaries) just came over and spent seven hours hanging around at my house. at the end, i got the comment: "oh, this was so relaxing... it was so wonderful to do nothing...". this makes me incredibly stressed, as for me it is anything but relaxing to have somebody (who is not at my house usually) hanging around, almost waiting to be entertained. yesterday there was also this big chaos/panic, because said friend offered me a lift home from college, only to arrive half an hour or so later than arranged. by this time i had walked to another campus to try and find said friend. then i came back down by bus, with blisters all over my feet, to find my mom about to call the police and my friend in tears. what was i supposed to do? my cellphone was dead, unable to be resurrected, and i waited at this friend's car for at least half an hour.

apologies, but i think i have just switched on my "let-it-all-out" button.

today i am on very bad terms with my dad, for various reasons. but now i am being forced for the sake of peace-keeping to smile at him if we walk past one another. then, i have discovered that the only academic course i really want to take (because music students need to take a non-music course) clashes on two out of three days with music lectures (which i secretly DO NOT want to take). even with very cunning skipping of classes i couldn't attend both the music ones and non-music one enough to be allowed to write the exams. and the music department is somehow exempted from having a prepared timetable - it is only finalised by the end of term one. [i know this is a big moan, but it is either this or go to the kitchen and eat anything in sight (bad coping mechanism...).] again, said friend has recently become quite a thorn in my side (unwittingly, methinks). friend is very wealthy, and does not hesitate to tell me (who is collecting funds from as many sources as possible and having a filthy hard time doing so) how father has provided a budget for whatever education (local, overseas etc) friend desires. then, friend goes on to say how philosophy is a "stupid" subject (quoted from father), because it has drifted away from the pure philosophy of physics and science and so on. this is said to me, who hates science and hasn't taken it for years. now i have chosen a subject in the philosophy department. and can't wait to show the world what a "stupid" person i am because i have no interest in science.

damn... sorry for the moan. i just had to spit it out.

Hope you feel better soon Benson!!! I love philosophy by the way!!! It's fantatsic....I did sosme Philosophy units at uni and enjoyed it ... It makes you think SOOOO much. I did an essay on the relationship between religion and science at one time.... they are both quite similar really at their essence (based on theories etc that often can't be proven etc!!!!)

thanks. when this sort of mood strikes it is a case of feeling as though nothing else has ever existed.

Yes - you describe that really well - I know exactly what you mean Benson ! Mine yesterday ...

ClariNicki - I know a few scientists who are also believers - the the two things are not mutually exclusive at all !

Slightly OT, but my head of year tells this story to each year seven class to try and explain the difference between science and religion...

A boy walks in to the science lab and sees the kettle boiling. He asks the technician "Why is the kettle boiling." The technician then goes on to give a long explanation about the science of how a kettle works and boils the water. Then a teacher walks in and the boy asks the same question. The teacher answers "Because I want a cup of tea."
The moral of the story is that while science explains how somethin happens, religion tells us why.

My husband included!!!!!!!!! I know they are not mutually exclusive..... in fact they are very similar at a basic level!!!! I just prefer things like philosophy to science!!!!!! Getting entangled in a philosophical argument is a just wonderful (whoops.... I'm sounding very sad here!!!!!!)





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