h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

It would appear that I have returned. I can't promise how long for, or how regularly I'll be checking in, but hopefully I'll find time to write an entry or two every so often.

Lots of things have changed over the intervening years. (I hope) I've grown up a bit, looking back over some old posts was... embarrassing? Painful? Painfully embarrassing?

Anyway, to any who I may have hurt in my previous existance here, I'm sorry. Let's hope I do better this time round.

What could you have said that was embarrassing? Point me to it!

It doesn't take much digging... Maybe you and I just have different embarrassment thresholds?

I except that's very true!

See!See! That would never have made me

(Not that I'm just finding excuses to refresh my memory of all the smileys, or anything...)

If that's what you're starting...

Awwww... Ya big softy!

I suppose I ought to get on with writing some reports...

No need to go mad. What are you doing these days, in the 'real' world?

I think it's a bit late for that...

I gave up on the programming malarky, as I was being pushed further and further into customer support. And some of the customers of the company I was working for needed a *lot* of support! I also realised I was missing Maths, so I decided to train as a teacher. So, here I am, now in my fifth year of teaching (and my second school) wasting my free lessons on here... Ooops! Of course, one of the benefits is lots of holidays...

Yet another teacher. Do you have one of those black swishy cloaks and a nice whippy cane?

Ahem. Sorry.

So that's great, what years are you teaching?

No, no cloak and cane for me. Although some of the senior staff at this school do have a cloak - usually only worn for assemblies. Don't know about the canes though!

I'm teaching secondary + sixth form, which is meaning I'm having to re-learn quite a lot of the A-level stuff! I'm currently trudging through a Statistics module... not the most thrilling topics. I seem to remember feeling the same way when I did them!

I started doing statistics in the one term of 6th form I did. I liked it much more than maths. Not sure why!

I find the stats work rather dry - you can't really work out the methods for yourself, in the way you can for (some) other areas of Maths. A lot of it is 'here's a formula, do this with it to get such-and-such a result'... Which doesn't particularly appeal to my puzzle-solving nature.