I was at home today because my union voted for strike action against cuts in Education spending. I know that I can go to my union if I need help, for example if I am assaulted at work, so I felt obliged to support them in my turn. This was not an easy decision for me; I love my job and I didn't go into teaching children with additional support needs in order to go on strike and spend a day not teaching them. So it was a stressful day. On the evening news David Cameron called the strike a damp squib, which Davie misheard as damn squid, which I thought was very funny! However I have lost sleep over the last week worrying about it, so I found Cameron's remark to be very patronising, and showed a concerning lack of understanding of the worries of people he is supposed to govern. I wonder if this lack of understanding will lead to his political downfall.
James and I watched a film lent to us by Chris G this evening, called Memento. I found it very hard to follow at first because its chronology jumps back and forward, it's about a man who has a brain injury that affects his short term memory. I kind of got into it and understood it but it was not relaxing to watch! Back to work tomorrow thank goodness. And I have just finished Cloud Atlas and I thought it was tremendous! To quote its last lines, somehow apt for today's worries,
"...your life amounted to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean! Yet what is any ocean but a multitude of drops?"
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