Duty

i am writing report comments on 230 semester 1 reports. i am new to the school so i have pictures next to me of the little girls about whom i am writing closing, hopefully encouraging comments.
but because it's report writing 'season' (education is such a seasonal job...it's right up there with owning a pool shop), of course i am finding a whole lot of other distractions suddenly a whole lot more fascinating...like blog-cruising, list-writing, flickr-photostream-updating, netball-watching (go sydney swifts!) and sister-chatting...not to mention all the other 'pinteresting' things i get sidelined with.
my latest list is 'quilts i want to make one day'. it includes:

• farmers wife
• another log cabin but a scrappy one this time a bit like this one from red pepper quilts...one of my blog crushes!
• a jacob's ladder like this (love everything lucy does) but maybe using this tutorial 
• clare's stars - my cousin's specialty
• equilateral triangle or half square triangle or this one too
• tumbler with the ready cut fabrics i bought at fabric-a-brac in sydney a few weeks ago
• swoon (who doesn't!)
• salt air crossing using a lovely little fandango jelly roll i have tucked away
• enduring grace - i bought the book about 15 years ago in holland but have not got past a bit of applique experimentation

so there you have it. a long list. a big pile of reports. i know what will win.