Posts by Jackie Clark
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The lizard over the mastectomy scar is very cool.
That's fantastic. Did you see the documentary Titless Wonders, Emma? That woman reminds me of the women that Gaylene Preston talked to, and filmed. Many, like my mum, chose not to have reconstructive surgery. They viewed their titlessness as sort of a badge, if you will. A tattoo seems to be a really good way of preserving that, and saying what you want to say in a somewhat more obvious way.
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Oh, but you could be talking about me. I really think that there are a large number of people like us who genuinely have trouble with names. A bit suss in my case, since I have to remember 90 little peoples' names every day - and their parents and grandparents. I suspect there is a name for it, and I know how you feel. I so often feel really rude not remembering peoples' names, and I resort to calling them darling, love etc. Case in point: on Monday, we had a compulsory thingy for the Kindergarten Association which employs me. We regularly have these, and because there are over 300 employees, you have to pick one of several days to go on. So, I know, after 12 years of working for the AKA that there will be at least 75 of your teaching colleagues there. And after 12 years, one would expect that I would remember the names of people I see at least four times a year. I see different people at courses, and functions, and these compulsory days, in committee meetings etc. Many of the faces are the same ones I have been seeing over and over and over for all these years. But no. So I'm kissing and hugging people I am genuinely fond of, and calling them sweetheart, because, honestly, I just can't recall their name. It's maddening, and shameful. Because, you see, there are very few of my colleagues who don't know my name.
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By not engaging with these great events of our time sent to test or divert us, I was probably dead.
It just didn’t seem like it from where I was standing.
I actively choose not to engage in most political discussion. It's very freeing.
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I'd love to get a tattoo some time. And I loved the ones on that site, Kebabette. I've always liked the idea of words on my skin, as opposed to pictures.I wouldn't get one on my back either, Emma. I would be similarly inclined to want to look at it all the time. The only issue for me is when. I think I know who - the guys on College Rd, are they still there?. And I know where - on my wrist, up my arm. But when? I don't know. So please go on telling your tattoo stories - it gives me more food for thought.
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I thought that you were confusing the Kings of Leon with Kings of Convenience.
Yummy. I sometimes think I'm the only person ever to love the KOC in this country. No-one I know has ever heard of them. It's a crime. Everyone should have their splendid sounds in their lives.
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Nightmares on Wax, Peter? Nice.
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The concept of leaving one particular child or group of children "in charge" with "responsibility" over other children is irresponsible and unwise.
Interestingly enough, Dyan, children are oft times each others best teachers. Peer learning, they call it. And kids are very selfcorrecting. With my three and four year olds, everyday there are kids making sure that other kids are doing the right thing. We don't ask them to do that, most of the time. Sometimes we do. For example, if I'm in the middle of a game with some kids, and I have to walk off, often I'll ask one or two of the kids, who know the game, to be responsible for the running of the game, and the packing up of it when they are finished. Often the people I'm asking to do that for me are 4 year old boys who need challenges that make them feel good about themselves. Being in charge of something they're good at is one way of doing that. I don't see that as harmful to the other children, at all. We have three and four years olds who are enormously competent people - if they are in a situation where someone's doing something they shouldn't be, you can bet your bottom dollar, the wrong doer is going to know about it. My argument is this - and there is research to back it up - that as teachers, part of our job is to encourage children to become socially competent learners. Often, they learn more from their peers about certain stuff. If kids are competent learners at three, how much more so are they at high school? And aren't the teen years well known to be peer driven? And if that is the case, surely it makes great sense for older kids to be "responsible" for younger ones?
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I have just read that The Saveloy will replace Veitch on TVNZ. My opinion on this? It could've been worse, much much worse.
I can't be doing with sport but I like Andrew Saville. Very personable man.
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Look how all our socks are pulled up. And no-one even had to tell us to do it.
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She danced and danced and came home with shoes full of blood and crushed nerves. And she would totally do it again
If you love her, don't encourage it! I had a pair of black patent leather stilettos, when I was in my early 20's. I thought I was the bee's knees and dropdead sexually alluring in them. Only problem was, I could never wear them anywhere. I had to take them off and put them back on and then take them off, and so on. My feet hurt in them, I couldn't walk in them, but dammit, I was sexy when I wore them. Yeah, right.