Happy Birthday to me.

This is my last entry for a while. It is the last day of the school term and who knows when I shall have Internet access again? I shall have a nice peaceful summer. I shall stay up late and sleep in and go to music festivals. I'll go visit my family and my dog. I'll go walking in Yorkshire and bask in the sunshine.

I see a glorious six weeks of blissfulness stretch out in front of me, shining and golden. I don’t wish to make people working in this heat feel bad but it is my birthday and I’m allowed to feel happy about everything. I’m all on my own as some people feel that going to Wales for the week during their significant other’s birthday is acceptable. I don’t mind really. I got some lovely prints this morning and there are still presents hidden around the house to find. It just means I’m alone until this evening until I go to my old flatmate’s for a drink and a Chinese later this evening.

Everyone but everyone must come to visit me during the summer. Just let me know when- all are welcome, anytime. (Unless I’m in Yorkshire or any of the above places. Best to check first.) In fact, it is an order. I haven’t seen some of you for years. Actual years!

Anyway. Goodbye for the summer. I hope everyone who is working has a fun-filled stress-free time. Until September……..

This may be the last time I write for a while. I may be able to squeeze in one more before the end of term. It is very nearly the end of the school year, thank heaven and all that's sacred, which means I can look forward to an internetless, even computerless summer. I know it will be difficult but everyone can console themselves with the knowledge that I will be deliriously happy all summer due to the fact that I have six weeks off and a nice new job to go to.

Yes, I got the job. I rock. Not only this but it sounds like the best fun in the world. It is at a tiny, private girls' school, which is pretty much a combination of the various girls' schools I have attended during my education - places where I met extremely good friends and generally had the time of my life (apart from Biology GCSE and A-level Physics lessons.) It is a convent school in a beautiful Victorian house, set in a few acres of ground, accepting girls from 0-18.

I will be responsible for running the library and an ICT suite. This means I can order books, create displays, invite writers in to talk about their work, run book and literature clubs at basic and advanced levels to help students widen their reading before university etc. I will be responsible for the computers and the interactive whiteboard- I will help students with their research and possibly give basic interactive whiteboard training to teachers. I'm also going to help out with the careers library. I get to do loads of stuff and enjoy doing and still teach some extra classes, like bookclubs, but they will be voluntary for the pupils- all of the fun, none of the pressure. I am so excited.

It will involve a bit of a pay cut but it's five minutes from my house, which will save petrol, and I think it will be worth it because of how much I will adore it. I am blissful. All I have to do now is get through three and a half more days where I am now and all will be right with the world.

Plus, it is my birthday on Wednesday. Hip hip hooray.

We lost then. Sorry for absence- I've been doing exciting things like going to safari parks. Can't talk long- busy busy. I have a job interview tomorrow! Write soon. Wish me luck, everyone.