End of Week Odd Bits

Am a little bit pre-occupied today… my boss flies in from being 2 weeks away in the US and UK this morning and he is landing (or would’ve landed by now) at 6:30am and going straight to the office.  Two weeks away, 24hrs on a plane from London and he is heading straight from the airport to the office on a Friday.  He has a long running nickname amongst my colleagues as “The Machine”.  Never seen a man work so many hours.  A standard day for him is in the office at 7am and leaves between 7pm – 8pm every night.  I have worked for him for 4 years and he has never had a sick day either.

Anyway, he’s in today and it will be interesting… we’re running a book to see how long he lasts before the jetlag hits.  I took 3pm will be the time when he will quit for the day.

Speaking of leaving early, I left early (5pm) yesterday to get home by 7pm for Kate’s Education Week Open Day.  They have an evening session for parents to get to see their kids classrooms and go through their bookwork and see where they sit etc etc.  Its good of the school to be open at 7pm for people like me (and I am not alone) to get a look around.  So last night was a lot of Dad’s around.  One Dad was there without his kid, who was at home getting ready for bed, and he had just called in to take a look around.

I really enjoy doing stuff like that on occasion.  Kate was very excited and took me through her various work books.  Her teacher, who had stayed back, was chatty and seemed nice.  I had only seen her once or twice before briefly, and Kate seems to like her a lot.  The classroom was plastered with kids artwork and I went around and found Kate’s stuff.  Funniest thing though was Kate’s “News Book”.  Each week the kids write down their news item and draw an accompanying picture.  The kids just write words as they sound and the teacher corrects it afterwards and gives a sticker or a stamp.  Well one of Kate’s stories was about her dancing and she tried to write the word “funk”.  Needless to say she had made a critical spelling error and instead on an “n” she wrote a “c”.  The teacher had put a little cross through it and had written an “n” above.  Classic.

Have a good week end all!