I Need A Car....

This morning one of the 6 buses a day I catch was late thus I arrived in the town centre in time to see bus number 2 pulling out without me. If everything goes right I normally get to work 40 minutes early but when I miss bus number 2 this means I will be 15 minutes late due to traffic.
Before anybody says "you voted against the congestion charge so it's all your own fault" can I point out this journey goes away and outside the failed planned zone.
The up side of being stuck in traffic on bus number 3 is I get the chance to read all of the Metro newspaper, the down side is I end up listening to people talking bollocks. Listening to two pimply male teenagers discussing skin care products made me want to rip my own spleen out and then one of them said he was getting grief off his tutor for being late all the time. His logic was if this bus ran on time he would not be late and getting the earlier one would just make him early and not on time.
The point were I wanted to just throw him out of the emergency exit was when he said "I am giving blood for the first time next week and they give you all these rules you have to pass first. Do you know they won't let you give blood if you have a sexually transmitted disease. I think they are making these rules up".
I kid you not.
I wonder if I can sue First Bus for forcing me to listen to this crap.

In The Pink....

It's cancer awareness day in the college so students are using this as an escuse to dress in pink. I didn't because I don't have anything pink so I told them my T shirt was khaki pink. Later when asked why I wasn't wearing pink I said "I am wearing my girlfriends underwear". Then after the initial response I added "No I'm not, that was last week"!!.

Student: "I look damn good in a TuTu".

Big Bang in Theory

People have been scared to death concerning the LHC turn on today. I actually am feeling a little disapointed because all they did was turn it on. No particle collisions, no crossed beams, a bit of a damp squib. The reason is that all they have done is turn the beam on in one direction. That's it. All the rest was media hysteria. The beams will not be colliding for a while yet, possibly weeks and it may happen without anyone knowing. I will be watching.
I know I've been out of touch for a month but I have been a little busy, I will try to make up for it. The students are back and there are lot of new faces in the department both staff and student. Stuart has gone over to the dark side, working in our other building and he has a replacement by the name of Andy.
The first stupid saying of the accademic year came from a student who asked me, "Do you know where the bottom of the stairs is?".
Great start hope there will be plenty more to come.

It's alive!... It's alive!.....

Here it is, the last week before study leave and the students have started fighting back, blogwise. Bring it on, I say.
Firtsly a message for Kelly. As long as Nick does not read this he will not know that you were finishing off your Film Studies work 5 minutes before the class started. To be honest no one would believe you were doing any work in the first place, you little table dancer.
I am drastically trying to get good material for the last week blog but the students seem to be;

A: Happy to be leaving.
B: Sad to be leaving.
C: Stressing over the upcoming exams.
D: Trying to get last minute work in.
E: Writing in each others leavers books.
F: Not giving a damn.

Last weekend was the the local brass band festival and beer walk and all I got was Dobcross Brass Band got pelted by peanuts. No funny photos, no one arrested (well, one, nearly arrested) and no juicy gossip. Come on people, you are letting me down. I would have thought at least one of you would have given me something worth writing about. Don't make me follow you all with a camera on Friday.
Actually that last sentence sounds a little wrong.
I hope to be back later today with an update.