By MARY WARD
Happy Friday! Welcome back to the day of casual officewear options, social media acronyms that use the letter ‘F’ to represent something other than an expletive and, of course, Mamamia’s weekly Best and Worst post. Best and Worst is our community’s watercooler/weekend barbecue/therapist’s office. It’s where we come to share the highs and lows of our week, give advice, congratulate one another and even recommend a book or two. The rules are simple, you just pick the best thing and the worst thing that has happened in your week, and post them in the comments. I’ll start:
Best: The sun’s started rising a little earlier, and the days are getting warmer. Yes, Spring is coming, and I am super keen for dresses without tights, commutes without coats, and the general mood lift that comes with winter finally realising that it’s overstayed its welcome.
Worst: [Disclaimer: massive uni student whinge approaching.] Assignments. Assignments everywhere. Assignments that require the lugging of 30kg of camera equipment. Assignments that only have a 2000 word limit even though EVERYONE KNOWS that the nuanced and obviously groundbreaking legal reasoning of a seasoned first year law student requires a word limit at least three times bigger than this! Oh, and assignments that I haven’t started. Hmm. Over to you: how’s your week been?
Body Positive Challenge #2: The body part I used to cover up. We all have a particular body part that bothers us and we tend to buy clothes that hide or cover or draw attention away from it. For one day (at least!) we’re asking you to show it to the world. This means bearing your upper arms, or rocking a midriff top or giving your thighs some much needed exposure to the sunshine. Upload a photo of yourself to the social media platform of your choosing (Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest, etc) with the hashtag #mmbodypositive Alternatively you can email your photo to us on info@mamamia.com.au or you can upload the photo directly in the comments section. We will then collate the images and bring you an amazing gallery of beautiful body parts. You can learn more about the Body Positive Project and read about the other upcoming challenges here.
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Best: finally got a diagnosis for the pain in my pelvis and side I've been getting.
Worst: the diagnosis is adenomyosis, which is basically endo in the muscle of my uterus and is not really treatable at this time. My options are hormone treatments or hysterectomy, neither of which are possible while TTC.
So I'm in pain, I now know what is causing my pain but I'm feeling very hopeless, sad, angry and alone right now. There's also very little known about adeno and it's impact on fertility, but after 2 years of TTC I'm guessing it's not helpful.
Whirlwind week at school!
Best: Our prep information evening and prep experience morning is over with and went well. I spoke in front of all the parents of the potential 2014 prep enrolments at the evening event about foundational maths and seemed to get a lot of praise. And then two groups of parents came to watch me teach the following morning and their children participated in a short lesson with the big kids to get an experience of prep at our school. I was quite pleased that many parents out of both groups were so impressed they wanted to know who I was. I am excited to feel so good about teaching in first year.
worst: getting a cold and feeling run down. My class's behaviour hasn't been the best this week and my tolerance is low. Behaviour management is so challenging in the early primary years especially with the increasing expectations. It is very difficult to be constantly forcing 5 year olds who have 5 minute concentration spans through formal structured lessons that they aren't ready for. Unfortunately this is true of at least a quarter of my class, maybe a third. It doesn't help that it is nearly the end of term 3 and they are all tired and so am I.
But the week is over. 3 weeks to go. Now just to kill off this sore throat this weekend. I do not need sickness.