Ice Skating etc...

Hi! I went ice skating on Saturday, as the title implies... I'm still rubbish, but at least there weren't any major casualties like last time! Well, not major exactly, but no twisted wrists this time. I almost broke it last time; fell over backwards, put my hands out to break my fall and it turns out that my little wrists don't take my weight... so, kersplat! I only fell over three times! The first time, I was fine, the second time, I cut my hand on my own skating blade, and the third time, well... my knees are still sore. I honestly don't know how my hand ended up by my foot, let alone how I managed to actually cut myself, but I'm just clumsy like that...

I've just come back from helping at my school's Open Evening; three hours straight of making paprer fish for ten year olds, punctuated only by the occasional whoops of my hyperactive friend running past with balloons from the French Department and chucking me Pains au Chocolats... I have no idea how you are meant to spell that, but it looks about right! I do German, not French... I was helping out the Maths Department, making origami octagons to demonstrate rotational symmetry to the year sixes from Primary School. To do this, I have to make paper 'fishes' with 'their guts hanging out' to make the finished thing. Yippee. My back hurts - they're all considerably shorter than me and I have to get down to their level to demonstrate the fishies -, my head hurts - you try sitting in an overlit Maths classroom from 6pm til 9pm, thinking wistfully of your best friend who is down in the German Department surrounded by food, and then you tell me how you feel! - and my wrists hurt; I have just folded approximately 300 paper squares along eight lines of symmetry, then formed them into fishies and locked them together using fiddly paper flaps which break as soon as you look at them, but need fixing because the year sixes want to take them home. Top set maths has it's downsides... I am frazzled. Very. Any annoyed, because my dog is currently sat beside my desk chair grumbling at me for no apparent reason. And now she licking her bum. Delightful. Well, I'll go moan elsewhere. Bye.