Hugs and sympathies for your very sad news, Cyrilla

My childhood optician always did: did a quick check with the reading chart with separate eyes and together. Only now do I again have someone who checks. In the intervening time I've several times been unhappy with new specs, and eventually reverted to the old ones as giving me clearer vision. I assumed it was a bit of a lottery until I moved to my current opticians - and explained I was a patient from ****. They asked me to take in the specs with lenses that worked best (not the same for left and right eyes) and worked from those and a sight test. The ones I have now are great and I assume I am a rotten testee.



And from me. The world must seem a very unstable place at the moment.

So sorry to hear of your loss, Cyrilla

*Very gentle hugs* You seriously have my sympathy. A couple of months ago I couldn't even sleep for the pain in my back. I'm currently suffering with pain in my left arm, and there's nothing I can do to help it.

FM is a ***** !

Partially Fibro but I'm sure there's either facet joint or disc involvement too, and it is not helped by the young lad on the scooter on the path outside the classrooms today. Headteacher was really understanding and is going to talk to the children in retrospect.

Yes FMS is a pain in the... back in my case and arm in yours. My sleep has been dodgy too. Trouble is as you know it is so easy to get into a lack of sleep increased pain cycle. I'm feeling pretty sorry for myself at the moment.

Loving the back-to-front treble clef on the wall, and the great plans to have an orchestra full of pupils who have no previous experience of playing a musical instrument.

Still shell-shocked about the death of the 14 year old that I taught.

Thanks for all the nice comments and hugs, guys.

Not a good week.

Lots of sympathy Cyrilla. Apparently a local high school has lost a member of staff too this week.

Cyrilla and jod

Me too - you really do seem to be having a tough time at the moment. Take care.

Agree too - hope you get a break soon but thoughts and sympathy in the meantime.

Thanks, all - I'm just so shocked still about this boy. He was only 14..and from such a lovely family...I still don't know what happened - it seems a bit shrouded in mystery.

What his poor parents and brother are going through I can only imagine.

Such sad news, Cyrilla. It's very hard to come to terms with death, but especially when it's such a young person.

Today, something happened that I had been fervently hoping for years would not happen. Would rather not be too explicit in public, especially after this morning when I was very explicit in public (ie an Incoherent Sobbing Wreck). Suffice it to say that I feel totally gutted and extremely sad.

Aw

Sorry to hear you are going through difficult times, Cyrilla and Misterioso. Thinking of you both.

Awwww to Misterioso, Cyrilla and anyone else feeling in need of one...

Thanks all - and hugs to Misterioso too..

My ARGH for today was that I managed to pop a contact lens out while I was putting eye make-up on and it went down the plughole .

Fortunately I had a spare one but they're pretty expensive to replace (I shall need to replace the spare in case I do something stupid again...). And I am in minus pounds at the moment...

Might your household insurance cover losses like this?

Church Music Group (both of them) returned from their summer recess yesterday, and made their presence felt in their usual inimitable style. We had hoped that they might disband, but no such luck.

SB

I don't know - thanks for flagging this up, I'll go and check..

I can hardly believe it. Yet ANOTHER piece of awful news...I have a very good friend who has had so many bad things happen to her (including her son being murdered two weeks after she was diagnosed with cancer ) - she texted me earlier to say that her beloved cat was killed by two dogs this afternoon..

that's awful. Here's hoping there is no more bad news for you xx

It may depend on whether you paid extra for loss and accidental damage when you took out the policy? Fingers crossed - it sounds like you could do with some good news!

There just HAS to be light at the end of the tunnel.

Aaaaaargh. Arrived at office , and my chair has disappeared !
Builders have knocked through into new extension from my office, and reboarded the space up whilst they finish off (decorate and plaster) the extension. I suspect my chair may on be other side , but so far no sign of builders yet, and I cant get in.

ARRRRRRRGH. University. I really hope it gets better as the year goes on
half my flat mates in halls are LOVELY people I enjoy spending time with (and don't feel a pressure to drink/club with! ) but the others are uh out everynight getting drunk and one plays ridiculously loud rap music out of these giant speakers
The first night I was here, the party people left this guy who'd downed a heck of a lot of vodka, unconscious in his room as they clubbed! (coming back to unconscious people, vomit, socks over smoke detectors etc is )
*sigh* met some lovely people but it is just so TRYING! Can't wait for normal timetable to start...
Plus side, the guy who won't shut up with the music may feel the wrath of my clarinet or viola (and I can practise at the same time! classical torture = win)

Hopefully it'll settle down when you start lectures, Guitar tempo. You have my sympathy, I hated my year in halls.

I'm sorry to say that from my children's experiences, this is typical student behaviour and is likely to persist on several nights a week even after the start of lectures. My daughter was driven mad in her first year because the girl who had the room next to hers was given to clubbing until 3am, when she would return home drunk and noisy, often with friends, and put on loud music. If the guy with the giant speakers persists, you could always ask to move rooms - but be careful where you move to, because it could be worse!

The up side is that next year you'll have chosen people to share a house with, which should be a lot better.

I didn't want to say it, but yes - my entire year there was the same, probably actually getting worse as the months went on.

However, after a year in the most quiet house imaginable, I wouldn't mind housemates who like to party just a little bit. The grass is always greener!

Sadly, this is why for me, university only lasted for 1 month (OU was much quieter!) - I just couldn't understand how people could behave like that - it was totally alien to me.

Just caught up with this one. I didn't have the best first year in halls. I did own one trump card though. I was the only one in our block who was not terrified of Spiders. It was quite simple if the others wanted arachnids removed they had to remember there were various things I wanted too. (Like peace and quiet after midnight) Also If I get up at 8:00am I frankly could not care less if they've been clubbing until three am and have a hang over especially as in the first year there were two of us who worked as bar/waiting staff in the local night clubs and therefore knew how to let ourselves in at that hour quietly without disturbing anybody else. (we had already had a good laugh at those with a skin-full when the bouncers sent them on their way)

Bad student behaviour normally settles down - at about the point the first piece of work has to be handed in. otherwise my suggestion is keep your things tidy and buy some ear plugs.

I think it says something about the position I'm in at the minute that I've just had some really good news and it's still managed to reduce me to tears

I think the phrase is AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGGGGGGGGGGGGHHH!

Hmmm - doesn't augur well for the Most Cheerful Poster award!

More seriously, I hope you're OK. It seems odd to post about good news on the Scream thread.

That's probably why I was joint 48th rather than 1st!

Yeah it does seem odd, about as much so as crying over it in the first place! I'm sort of starting to realise this might be the best thing for me though, much as I don't want it to be!

My arms are all blotchy and itchy after weeding round the beetroot.

Just got home and found a dead squirrel laid out on the back doorstep, thanks to my (usually very docile) Siamese. Worse - on closer inspection it was absolutely crawling with fleas and they were all over the ground around it. Shortly afterwards my daughter and I both found fleas on ourselves. Yuck yuck yuck!!

Yuck indeed! Oh I do hope you were not to badly bitten.

Spray the flee-ridden corpse with the type of flea spray one gets from the vet. Have a thorough shower and treat any bites with calamine lotion. Make sure your siamese is up-to-date with their frontline treatment.

I can cope with most things however fleas and maggots make my skin crawl and ants, well they potentially kill me.

I'm extremely fond of my cats, but I do tend to inspect their 'presents' incase they come with 'added extras' I didn't bank on and if necessary get hubby to deal with it or put the marigolds on and triple wrap everything in plastic.

have been out and bought 2 new work shirts today, Got home to find that 1 of them is 14.5 inch when I wear 15 inch shirts.

Hopefully I can get away with it and hopefully I have learnt to take more time and double check the sizings before going to pay.

Just had the most horrible teaching session I've had in a very long time.

*weeps*

Awwww


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You didn't sound as if you were feeling up to it earlier. Put it down to the strain you've been under and forget it. The next one is bound to be better!

Cutting short my weekend away sailing, to rush back for a flight to Italy at the crack of Sparrow, tommorow morning, only to find that the job has gone back several days and no-one bothered to tell me!

Thanks BM. Don't think I've ever been attacked like it before.

Attacked?

Perhaps your student was having a really bad day too, but that is no excuse.

Take it from me that you are a brilliant teacher. This may have been a one off less-good-than-normal lesson. You'll bounce back.

Oh dear, whatever happened?
Take no notice!! If it's any comfort we all get horrible sessions from time to time.

Thanks, JudithJ and Aquarelle. The session itself wasn't any different from any of the others, but a vociferous minority decided to have a go at me - a barrage of criticisms - but apparently they felt very happy with the fact that they'd given me 'feedback'. So that's OK, then.

Maybe you should give them feedback from you now. It can take the form of the game "Guess How Many Fingers I am Holding Up?"

Bx

my aaargggh is trivial

I've just found a tear and a bleach stain on my favorite pair of shorts (ok make that only pair of shorts)......they are now purple, orange and holey but as they are at least 4 years old and were very cheap I can't complain too much.