An absent-minded cowboy

I’ve continued to try and tidy, sort, throw away stuff, but I honestly don’t know whether I’m making any progress, apart from discovery a lot of forgotten items. Some interesting, some sad, some hilarious, such as the following.

When I left my last job as a teacher, there was a farewell speech which included quotes from me, and cartoons about me:

• woman feeding papers into a shredder – “Lois finishing her lesson plans.”
• a meeting in progress, a sleeping woman is resting her nose on the agenda – “Lois at a local authority planning meeting.”
• quote “I mean, it’s just a load of absolute b∗∗∗ocks” (at the same or similar planning meeting)
• quote “Is this REALLY  necessary? I just don’t see the point!” (ditto as above)
• quote “When was I going to that meeting I was going to?”
• quote “Why can’t I do a staff panto?”  
• quote “Has anyone seen Teddy” – teddy was on my keyring, he and the keys were always going missing.
• quote “When did we say that?” – when I had forgotten some arrangement or decision.
• quote “Don’t forget to put the crumbs in the recycling!” I was (still am) an ardent recycler!

As a teacher, I guess I was somewhat of an absent-minded cowboy in some ways, my priorities were to be in front of the class and teach, not waste my time in meetings for the sake of meetings!