Joy of joys. Not only does the mind of every kid we teach start shutting down about 2 weeks out, but the party season kicks into gear in earnest and the silly season of reports and letters home and reference writing and stuff to do for next year needs to be organized etc etc etc.
I’ve just written a great swag of reports today, so while we’re in report speak maybe one on us for the year might be in order….hey! what’s happening? This is just appearing from nowhere…hey!…………
“The Braggetts have had a fair year overall. I must temper my comments somewhat by the fact that I write this report on ‘The Braggetts’. One member of the family has had an excellent year and deserves praise for her continual quest for excellence in all she does. Casanda has taught without complaint all year and provided a professional service to her employers and ultimately, the students under her tutelage. She has maintained the highest of professional standards and has assisted colleagues, added intelligent and insightful comments whenever necessary and generally performed as a seasoned and consummate international educator. On the domestic front, she has again shouldered the bulk of the so called “home duties” without complaint and in a most chipper mood despite the vague and cumbersome attempts at “help” from the other human recipient of this report. The two cats, Virg and Mary, have been delightful companions, alternating between cute sculpture like pieces to be admired as they slept and the more energetically entertaining tumbling furballs, playfully wrestling and chasing objects and each other around the house.
It is with a heavy heart, however, that I report on David and his year. Seemingly not content to systematically ruin the department that he ‘leads’ in a most unprofessional manner at work, he has managed to alienate and offend an inordinate number of his colleagues in his day-to-day dealings with them. David appears to be a “do what I say”, not a “do as I do” type of worker. The shockingly unprofessional example that he sets, both to colleagues and students alike, has to be seen to be believed. He has the audacity to have a day off if he is sick and for some unfathomable reason, tends to state his opinion in all honesty if he is asked. David has failed miserably in the art of lick ass diplomacy so favoured by many of his colleagues, a failure which has cast him in a very bad light indeed. At home, he seems to believe that carrying a festering load of garbage to the truck down the road on too infrequent occasions and writing emails and blogs actually constitutes some kind of contribution to effective domestic living. One can only hope that in the next academic year, David will live up to his undoubted potential”
Oh, that’s a disgrace! That’s very unfair…who wrote that report? How did it get published on my blog? I must protest about this report! Who can I contact to complain?!
Photos today are of David sitting on the skeletal base of the bed in the cat’s room with Virg on my back, Virg on the blanket box and Mary on the mat looking out the door. The report’s “Miss Goody Two Shoes” doesn’t get a photo this week!