{"id":19393,"date":"2013-04-22T21:01:59","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T21:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/?p=19393"},"modified":"2013-04-22T21:01:59","modified_gmt":"2013-04-22T21:01:59","slug":"day-112-a-good-feeling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/2013\/04\/22\/day-112-a-good-feeling\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 112: A Good Feeling."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a great thing to write about, but then my mind got full of other things, so this is what you&#8217;re getting tonight&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Not so much of a busy day at work &#8211; the usual things. The maths lessons at the moment are the busiest they will ever be. Today we looked at mean, mode, median, range, ratio, proportion and the 6 times table&#8230; In 55 minutes. Hard work, but worth it as they are improving in huge leaps at the moment. Their minds are like sponges and I intend to take full advantage of their interest at the moment. This is such a good thing to be a part of at the moment &#8211; I know I&#8217;m making all the difference to their maths abilities. The work of the last year and a half with them is finally all coming together like the final pieces of a <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Baked beans\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Baked_beans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">baked bean<\/a> jigsaw.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19395\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19395\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/beans-jigsaw-both.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"19395\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/beans-jigsaw-both\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/beans-jigsaw-both.jpg?fit=500%2C443&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"500,443\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"beans-jigsaw-both\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;A baked bean jgsaw&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/beans-jigsaw-both.jpg?fit=500%2C443&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-19395\" alt=\"A baked bean jgsaw\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/beans-jigsaw-both-300x265.jpg?resize=300%2C265\" width=\"300\" height=\"265\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19395\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A baked bean jgsaw<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After work though was where most of the work has been done. The <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Workweek and weekend\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Workweek_and_weekend\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">weekend<\/a> was a fairly lazy one (apart from the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Manual labour\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Manual_labour\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">manual labour<\/a> of building two <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Raised-bed gardening\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Raised-bed_gardening\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">raised beds<\/a>) and as a result, the usual weekend jobs had been put off! So tonight meant cleaning the living room, running the vacuum around the house, changing Kit&#8217;s litter, organising the bins&#8230; all the things that a Saturday morning is for! That reminds me, tomorrow night I must change Cappy&#8217;s water.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0main\u00a0thing though, was marking my Literacy books. I had left some of them from last week which I had meant to complete over the weekend, but never really created time to do them. Still, I&#8217;m back on top of the list of jobs meaning I can try to get on with other things tomorrow night.<\/p>\n<p>I need to rewrite the ending to <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Musical composition\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Musical_composition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">piece of music<\/a> for band. Some arrangers are great, but they can never seem to end a piece of music in a decent way. It&#8217;s almost as if they get so involved in other aspects of the writing process that the ending just seems to be tacked on at the last minute.\u00a0I&#8217;m not sure that will be a job for tomorrow at all, but I need to make a start on it. I might have to find a clear weekend window for that sort of thing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?w=1165\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a great thing to write about, but then my mind got full of other things, so this is what you&#8217;re getting tonight&#8230; Not so much of a busy day at work &#8211; the usual things. The maths lessons at the moment are the busiest they will ever be. Today we looked at mean, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,33],"tags":[286,551,1871,2087,2643,2715,3296,3302],"class_list":["post-19393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2","category-work","tag-arts","tag-business","tag-manual-labour","tag-musical-composition","tag-saturday","tag-shopping","tag-work","tag-workweek-and-weekend","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6OeSW-52N","jetpack-related-posts":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}