Sinister: it's all gone wrong again, you've got double maths

[Rachel Playforth]

I have a confession: this post will contain none of what used to be called 
(somewhat narrowly one could argue) 'content'. There. I hope you'll forgive 
a semi-retired and half-senile poster for the deviance.

It's good being grown-up. You get to drink alcohol and have sex and own 
furniture and stuff. And more importantly, you never ever have to go a 
maths lesson ever again. OR SO I THOUGHT.

Yesterday I was at 'uni' (is that what the kidz call it?) having my 7 hour 
quota of MA teaching for the week. And all 7 hours of it was about 
budgeting and accounting. Now, I am not one of these fluffy bunny types who 
can't get her head round the need to prepare a budget every so often in 
professional life. What I AM, is entirely incapable of understanding IN TWO 
SHORT HOURS the finer points of NPV and DFC and IRR and .9091 as a 
percentage over 10 years and arrrrgh... all delivered at a speed humming 
birds would have trouble keeping up with. There was NO NEED for us to be 
burdened with this terrible half-knowledge at this point. I was immediately 
transported back to GCSE maths and physics in front of a cruel-mouthed 
tyrant who was supremely disgusted that his/her tiny charges were not able 
to understand the perfection of his/her mathematical brain.

However, later I decided that a 10 year interval in between occcasions of 
being made to feel utterly stupid is not that bad going.

Meanwhile, I watched a very good film last night called La Finestra Di 
Fronte. It has no maths in it at all and I highly recommend it to anyone 
who likes Italian pastries, understated romance or elderly gays with a 
tragic past. Something for everyone really.

What else was I going to say? Oh yes, I was wondering whether a Brighton 
picnic on Saturday 3 April might be agreeable? I know it's a long way off 
but that's the soonest I can guarantee not to have evil coursework exerting 
its grip. Well, let me know. It's pencilled in, in what passes for the 
Archel mind these days.

You're all lovely.

Archel xxx

PS. I hope everyone remembered that it was the inimitable Miss Maddie 
Minx's birthday on Tuesday. She still rocks the Sinister kasbah despite 
being oh so quiet.

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