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Edited by Sonia King, Saturday, 31 Mar 2018, 15:54

So this is my first blog post/ learning journal amalgamation, I am writing it as my youngest shouts at me through the baby monitor because bed time is for noobs and she "doesn't like sleeping". FML seems to be a personal mantra these days. 

I am Sonia, my students describe me as completely bonkers, my psychologist would possibly extend that to batshit. It has taken me 15 minutes to write these 4 sentences, thanks to a search for purple dog, then furball and now a hot chocolate for the eldest. This is my life. 

I home ed my kids, tutor other peoples kids (and some adults) maths and science, run a house and am attempting to mangle my way through the MAODE. We are also trying to negotiate the bureaucratic nightmare of an EHCP process, which is basically a fruitless attempt at getting poorly funded local authority departments to distinguish between their arse and elbow... you seriously couldn't make up the ineptitude (though it is mostly caused by high staff turnover vs 'stretched so thin they are practically transparent' resources). This is for my eldest who is Autistic and needing a special school provision. I am also part of a few local community projects and last year ran for MP.

In my spare time big grin I play the piano, saxophone, paint portraits and just today bought a trumpet. I am also well into AI and keep trying to join organisations full of young clever go getters that don't want me. I also love watching and reading sci-fi, there are 24 usable hours in a day right?

Among other quirks I have Mears-Irlens, which is a bit like dyslexia but not quite, I have a computer that I can talk to and am pretty good at typing, but reading some of the older pdfs of articles can be quite a trial and checking my bibliography is formatted right throughout is nigh on impossible, so I always drop marks on that, but will be making a concerted effort to find a way to improve this as I really want a distinction! (if anyone has any ideas give me shout). 

I am so full of ideas, and would be in MENSA if I had remembered to pay the subscription, but my thoughts are elusive, they are bright blue butterflies that fly around my head as I clumsily fail to catch them. I do however have a super power... I totally boss at analogies. 

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