Well its been an interesting few weeks or so since we last spoke.
We got told we were doing everything wrong in our jobs and basically were bringing down the enrire Northern Territory education system with our arrogance and rudeness and incompetence so we said "hows this for rude?" and quit.
It amazing how quickly your entire life can be packed up and shoved into the back of a car when you need to.
So we received our glowing assessment on the afternoon of Friday the 16th, and by 2pm Saturday we were on the road. Incredibly sad but we had to do it.
So we took exactly 7 days to travel about 2400km, listened to exactly 381 songs (thanks ipod), and saw all sorts of neat things, in particular sand and flatness.
For example,
this is Jo on the edge of a real live meteor crater. Cool.
these are the views out the back and out the front of the car in total nothing land
a huge dog - the head is a whole car. Neat.
WOW!!
Now we are back in Melbourne and being 'in between jobs' have loads of time but finite dollars. But I have an interview at Wangaratta College next week for starting next term (mid July). Wangaratta, for those of you unlucky souls who havent been there, (and I think that includes me, but i cant be sure) is a lovely (hopefully) rural town in the north east of Victoria. Near the mountains so we'll be able to have a proper winter time of it, assuming my interview technique is charming enough.
While I'm bringing home the bacon (or, indeed, bringing home unsalted pork delights with which to create said bacon) Jo will be doing relief/emergency teaching and being a domestic goddess. (cakes and the such) And working on plans for other stuff. I think.
So our heads have come right i think after the battering our emotions took and we can look back with excellent memories of the kids and the community and hope that something extremely painful befalls the idiots who couldnt see how good we are.
Dickheads.
Thanks for tuning in.
Ooooooh - nearly forgot. I bought a new watch about 6 weeks ago. Its a SOLAR POWERED g-shock. No more batteries ever. If you own shares in duracell or energiser, sell now. Keep everyready though, they're still good. Its a bit like having a grandfather clock on my slender wrist but by golly it makes me look rugged.
I read about a watch on the weekend that costs $530,000 but it is waterproof to a depth of 1km. Stupid. But awesome.
And, they say it will survive a nuclear explosion, which IS actually useful. In case cockroaches need the time of course.
So much cool stuff. Its a crazy world.
p.s. If you are a boss, don't be mean.
