Bad start to the week!

Today, I had a lecture to give at 9am. It's something I've done before, and thought, easy-peasy nothing to it. I ended up almost losing my temper at these lazy first year sods!!

I started to lose it when people started drifting in after lecture was due to start. Given that class was supposed to start at 9am, and I usually give them till 9.05am to settle down, it's incredibly annoying that even at 9.15, people were sitll floating in. I made it a point to stop the lecture everytime they were late, and waited till they sat down before I continued.

The rest of the lecture thought this was rather funny and some started to giggle. Everytime one more person/group walked in, there would be a collective 'gasp' (in retrospect, it was quite amusing), but mostly it was very very annoying. It's not difficult to have to turn up for 9am class, I don't think, especially when so many of them live on campus!

Anyway, after lecture was over, I was packing up the stuff when a mature student came up to me and basically thought she was comforting me by telling me that I shouldn't really take offense in how they were acting (ie, being late, strolling in etc), because apparently it had to do with my predecessors and how they behaved! She gave me examples of how one of them brought her baby to lecture to start it off and then 'bugger' off?!, and another example of how tow others couldn't start the computer! And so even though it was ok for me to have expectations of the students, because my colleagues don't, the students therefore don't know what to expect. She also suggested that it was because nowadays students pay for their tuition, and so feel that they have the right to come and go as they like!!

Again, in hindsight, the student was probably quite right in saying some of the things, but on the other hand, it's incredible how students seem to expect things the way they want it to be, but don't want to work for it.

I don't get this generation of people - makes me sound so old now, but I really don't get them.

On a more positive note, little blue pea is moving quite a bit now and that's very reassuring. I've not put on alot of weight since 6-8 weeks ago, but apparently this isn't such a problem as long as baby's measurements are all right for the period.

We have our next midwife's appointment tomorrow, so will try and update then. Hopefully I can get my MatB1 form and then get the maternity leave confirmed in writing.

ok - talk later...have work to do now...

love
P and the blue pea
23 weeks!