I’ve been reflecting, during the World Cup, at how good we Australians are at watching sport in the middle of the night. But it’s part of being a sports fan, here. We’ve grown up watching pretty much any world class sport in the middle of the night. Think Ashes tests, Wimbledon, US & French Open [...]
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Antipodes
Posted in Sport on 25 June, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Introversion
Posted in Life on 21 June, 2006 | 2 Comments »
Via JennyD, I found an on-line Myers-Briggs personality test. I did it out of curiosity to see if my rating would have changed from when I did it 10 years ago at some work love-in. It hadn’t, I’m still INTJ – Introverted, intuitive, thinking, judging (the opposites are extroverted, sensing, feeling, perceiving). Each of the [...]
Fandom
Posted in Sport on 13 June, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
I loved reading Fever Pitch, (one man’s story of the highs and lows of being an obsessive Arsenal fan) when I first found it, but I never thought it would apply to me.
But watching the World Cup last night with Australia spending most of the match futilely trying to match Japan’s controversial goal before coming [...]
Gifted education
Posted in Education on 12 June, 2006 | 5 Comments »
I’ve been mulling over gifted education for a while.
I think that streaming children into different ability levels is, on the whole, a good idea (that’s probably the most controversial statement in this post). It probably doesn’t matter that much in the middle of the bell curve, but at either end, children will learn better when [...]
Slow down
Posted in Life on 5 June, 2006 | 1 Comment »
I’ve decided to slow down a bit on this blog. Notwithstanding all my crowing posts about work-life balance, it’s catching up with me.
I started a new job just over three months ago, which I am finding far more interesting and enjoyable than my old job. The main thing is that I am learning, and continuously [...]
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