Soothing the savage breast

I was listening to Tosca earlier. Despite its passion, I decided it was the wrong material for marking - wild, bloody and furious as it is in places. Now I'm listening to the Tortelier recording on Bach's Cello Suites and I'm feeling much more generous. Up next - probably Flos Campi (my favourite Vaughan Williams) or some plainchant.

The moral is: if you want better marks, buy me the right kind of music.

Now I'm embarrassed

Someone's just come in to ask me to turn down my swearing because students are doing an exam. I'm normally very mild-mannered, but PebblePad is turning me into a dishevelled wild-eyed monster. I've had to turn up Tosca to drown out my Tourettish cursing. I could actually have finished the outstanding piece of work, were it not for the 4 hours it's taken so far to upload a few documents. It shouldn't take 5 goes to highlight a piece of text or add a link.

I've also sent an angry letter to the PGCE people.