Graham Rees

I love the opimism with which I pack my bag at the end of the school day as if I'll be able to see the physio, buy groceries, make dinner, spend time with the family, train the juniors at karate, upload the assignment marks, write the references and redesign the exam all by 10pm.

@thomas_no9 Oh. And a suspension 🙃

@grahamrees Standard Holy Wednesday behaviour. 1 day to go. Enjoy the break.

How do you even get seven negative behaviour entries in a four period day? Asking for a friend 🤦‍♂️

Manflu update: You watch Once Upon A Time in Hollywood and tear up at the thought of Sharon Tate not dying and sob uncontrollably when Jake Cahill is validated by a child actor.

The unnerving thing about manflu is not the flu. It's the middle days when you've stopped getting worse but you're not yet better. The inbetweenness of being too exhausted to work but not tired enough to sleep. The twilight zone.

@mrdanielyong What’s your take, sir?

Student apathy in the classrooms 😱

“If you pursue pleasure you’re not going to find pleasure; you’re going to find rehab.” Word.

@matthras R. Shudder.

Too much (self-imposed) PhD work really isn't helping by my lack of consistency in knowing how to do things in R such that I'm always running into dumb typing problems. Like c'mon, R, $ vs [[]] vs normal subsetting, and then old base R packages that can't parse tibbles, grrrr...

"Can you put, like, an 𝘹 in the calculator, sir?" has to be one of the sadder questions you field during a Year 9 algebra exam.

@z3019494 They like them almost as much as the teachers do, sir 🙂

@grahamrees Hoping your students like these topic summaries! 😉

Working direct and indirect variation with Y11 Advanced students with thanks to the work of @z3019494

@matthras I'm very here for jealousy-inspired mathematical outfits.

There's a guy at another campus that has various mathematically patterned shirts ALL HANDMADE BY HIS MOTHER/PARTNER(?) and if that isn't going to make me master sewing and making my own purely out of (playful) spite and jealousy, nothing will 😤

@matthras She's a /cough/ very keen bean.

I thought I was slightly crazy for doing white rice/brown rice/chickpea mix for my meal prep then I saw an Instagram reel of a Korean mother who includes (hydrated) chia seeds and like 4 different types of beans and various other things. I should emulate this.

Head teacher, consulting attendance data: How did Dylan arrive at 9:10 and also leave the school at 9:10? Me: That will be Mrs Schroedinger’s little boy. Head teacher: … Me: … Head teacher: … Me: I’ll show myself out.

I love how when there’s a really big dump of snow in Japan it’s not the powder that gets you, it’s the bears.

Edward Gibbon ascribes the fall of the Roman Empire at least partly to the rise of monasticism. It seems you can have global domination or a life of asceticism and reflection, but not both. Sigh.

“The gentleman had welded fast every ontological door through which a crack of self insight might appear.” That one’s mine, folks.

If people aren’t free to say no to you, their yes will be of doubtful worth.

So just to be clear. The world is a safer place now Roe v Wade is overturned. Yes? That’s it, right? Have I got it?

@thomas_no9 You’re all over it, Mr P, as per usual 🫡👌🏻😂

@grahamrees And by 1990, Total Recall starring Arnold Sxhwarzenegger found out the truth. The Marsian government weaponised oxygen kind of like Israel weaponising water by restricting Palestinian access to shared water sources and controlling water infrastructure

Amused by the fact that in his 1938 science fiction trilogy C.S. Lewis supposes the air on Mars and Venus was breathable. It’s quite something to reflect that this position represented the limit of interplanetary knowledge at the time as much as it was a romantic device.