12 Feb 2012

This time tomorrow......I will be celebrating. Either that I have actually passed on to the next phase, or that at least it's over and I can have my life back for awhile. Stay tuned....

28 Jan 2012

And so it begins...The grades for the first part of the exam for the specialty of Physical Education have been posted, and the words I keep hearing to describe the results are "massacre" and "butchery." It appears that there is a ...

27 Dec 2011

So what's next?I'm beginning to think about my employment options for the future. Still don't know if I will pass to the next phase of the exam, and if I do, whether I actually get a spot, and if I do, whether or not the legal challenges will succeed...

30 Nov 2011

And now a word from our sponsorsHeh heh. No, I don't have any sponsors, though I was contacted by this company and I thought it might be of interest, maybe not so much to my regular readers (I know there are a few of you out there) but maybe to those...

27 Nov 2011

HmmmThe exam (the first part) has been published (without answers) and looking at it again I am somewhat worried. There are only 20 questions, though some have multiple parts-- who knows if they will give partial credit. And a couple that I thought I...

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