Manir, head of the science department at my school, doesn't like me. He's in his mid-thirties, average height, slighly overweight but not abnormally, with a round face, big smile, long nose, and a shaved head because he's starting to bald. He's Muslim, like pretty much every man in the science department, but he looks like a combination of Middle Eastern and European. His skin is kind of light and his accent is pure British. I always need something and I ask so many questions. "Mr. Manir, at the staff briefing this morning, that little bald guy, I don't know his name--" He cuts me off, "Yeah, Gwayne." "OK, him. I didn't even know who he was, and he said we need to get those 'Focus Group CPD forms' returned to him by the end of the
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