The only thing that’s stopped me using iWeb for my website before are all the annoying little boxes all over the place that need filling with witty or incisive bits of prose. Of course I could just delete them but I’d rather put something interesting in them, after all I’m supposedly a literate, published, individual.
And now the ideal quote has fallen right into my lap.
“Something you should know about me. I'm not just the first person in my family to get a PhD, I am the first person in my family to actually go to University!”
Keith Gallagher (Final Lecture, Durham University, 16th December 2009)
Of course Keith was talking about himself but It applies equally well to me and it’s probably one of the bits of trauma that defines who I am (or at least the end result of it).
I’ve been thinking quite a lot about my school life ever since I had to start badgering the school to teach Caitlin properly and being classed as thick at school (and not being able to read) was probably one of the major things that drove me on in later life. Dyslexia is a terrible thing. If only I could get Caitlin’s school to understand that! Grrr.
Anyhow, shame I didn’t come up with the quote first.
