pretty cheesed off today...

today started off quite well, i woke not feeling too sore after zumba toning last night, I'd had a reasonable sleep (as reasonable as you can get for 5hrs) so i felt semi-refreshed, Caelan wasn't too much of a hassle this morning, got to uni with minimal traffic...

today we were meant to be in 9:30-4, so Caelan got booked into creche for both before and afterschool care. we started at 9:30 with the tutor who will be taking us next semester and then our present tutor came, classmates asked how long the day would run as our timetable just said preparation for practice - which usually means our placement documents get handed out, which obviously shouldn't take an entire day, he said we'd be done by lunchtime- 1pm absolute latest!

now I know this must seem like a good thing to most people, getting an unexpected early finish - but we are now paying out for childcare we don't need! and childcare aint cheap!!
i have to give the creche 7 days notice to cancel his place and this has happened SO many times now, where we were meant to be in a full day but he only kept us in half (and by the tone of it, he never intended on keeping us to the end in the first place), where it's been decided with a day's notice that the next day would be done online...

tutor ended up getting quite wound up with us this morning in reflection of our last PBL, which we presented yesterday. it was a poster presentation, never been done before by us or any other group so we all agreed we'd give it a go. we'd be mixed groups between campus and highlander students, so it would be all web based communication etc etc etc

well... he made it quite clear what he had expected us to do and what we thought we were meant to do were 2 completely different things- though even after his hour long rant I am still really none the wiser as to what it was exactly he'd been expecting out of it. TBH I started getting vey fed up by about 20mins in and really had to hold myself back from just telling him to take a chill pill and walking out.

on the way home the M77 was horrifically busy - i have no idea what the hold up was but usually lunch time on a weekday it's pretty quiet, even going INTO glasgow let alone going out!

then got onto the A76 and got stuck behind one of those HUGE quarry dumper trucks on a flat bed truck going at max 14mph, tho coz it's quite hilly a lot of the time we were crawling along at a snail's pace. i swear for most of it i could probably have walked faster! and of course it was only once i had passed the last option turn-off of an alternative route that i got stuck in it.

1hr30mins into the journey home, a trip that usually during the day takes me 50mins, i was only in Mauchline. we must have sat there for nearly 10mins while the police made sure the roads were clear for the truck to get through. thankfully once we got out the other side of mauchline i was then able to nip down one of the country roads out into the back of Catrine and into Auchinleck (there were quite a few police cars at the academy today, after the air-rifle shottings yesterday) otherwise i think i'd still be stuck behind the thing now! and of course because of our unexpected half day I didn't have lunch - so I was sitting in the car starving (i don't eat brekkie)

nipped into tesco on the way home, parked and the car felt slightly funny as i was turning it off but didn't think much of it.... until i set back for home and parked in our drive - turned the key to turn the car off - nothing, car engine still going... "hum" i think "maybe i've not turned it all the way" so turned it again with the same result. took the key OUT of the ignition - car continued to run! ended up deliberately having to stall it to get it to shut off!

stoopid technology....