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beccaelizabethToday: Got up at 0645, with actual awakeness. Ate toast. Since that's all I've ate all day I'm kind of wishing I'd ate more toast. But I could get more food if I actually, you know, went and got. So, anyway, toast. Discovering my bra, for reasons unknown, while fitting perfectly well yesterday, today felt like the underwires were barbed. Undressed, dressed again. Routine interrupted, flailed a bit. Finally got all my layers on and shoes on and grabbed my backpack and got out the house. Got the bus, for only £2, because it's the double decker and I found a leaflet... or possibly because it only costs £2, because honestly I never pay attention. I like the new double decker. It looks like the tatty round town buses, but it has comfortable seats with seatbelts. Also you can sit up the front and think the bridges will get you. Which is a specialised form of fun.
I listened to The Sarah Jane Adventures. Reason the billionth why I hate having to get here for 0930 - when I only have to get there for 1330 then it takes there and back again to listen to a whole adventure. When it has to get there for 0900 then it takes the whole book to get there. Not cool.
The story was pretty cool though.
They're read by Sarah Jane, which mostly makes me notice how much of the TV series isn't actually about her. Also that her impressions of other people's voices are more amusing than accurate. And when she does her own voice it seems deeper. Weird.
I got all the way to college, in the gates, story done, turned off the MP3 player...
And realised I'd left the library book bag, full of library books, right on the floor where it was put neatly last night with a big note on it about library fines to remind me to bring the books back.
*facepalm*
So I was feeling pretty much of lose today.
In class the teacher answered my email, only out loud with talking rather than in actual email.
I have the ISBN of the book we should have got.
Also I have been told the unit specification sheets are out of date and to ignore them they need changing.
I'm not sure I like the idea of a course where the specs change. I mean, I get it, but... eh.
We had some good discussion in class. There was some work we were supposed to do on Blackboard, only nobody did. Nobody ever does. This is self perpetuating. It's *boring* being the only one in the conversation. If I'd have had an awake brain cell I probably would have, but I didn't. But, out loud, in class, many people had thoughts. Including me. I possibly overstated the case because I was trying to summarise several authors very quickly, but basically the article referenced several F&SF authors and yet didn't seem to have actually *read* them. It talked about the covers. Inside the covers are all sorts of pretty words! So those authors did not prove what he said they proved, if you'd actually read them. I mean they did but they didn't. Also he seemed to be complaining that SF was all about medieval stuff, when in fact I'm pretty sure Fantasy is on occasion full of medieval stuff, and SF is full of, well, many many things, many of them drawn from all over history as well as spun from less recognisable parts. Basically complaining about knights in armour on SF book covers is missing the point on a grand scale.
I could have argued his point much better than he did.
If you oversimplify both the modern and medieval eras then yes they're exactly the same.
It would still only be a very partial view though.
So, anyway, there was that bit, and then much about the Wife of Bath, and then the lesson ran out.
We'll be back on Greek next week.
I'll have an exam in room G2. Everyone else will have an exam in F210 where they have the teaching. I'm sure that's at least a percent of more difficult. *pout*
... no, I'm just irritated because I've been here 7 years and I still didn't know where G was. It's in the building they're going to knock down for the new build, apparently. I'll discover it on the way out.
The good thing about today - and I needed a good thing - was I had a Cunning Plan that turned out to be actually cunning, and not in the sense involving Baldrick and/or weasels.
I found in the notes about units a ten credit level 1 module called Individual Study. I did study individually the Doctor Who unit. So I wondered, could I call it that? I was thinking along the lines of handing in the project over again, but that's a No. But, it turns out to be a smart angle, because they can attempt to APL the Doctor Who against the Individual Study, and the learning outcomes will probably match because they're intentionally vague.
As of an hour ago the teacher that is most helpful thought this was a Good Plan.
I'm now :-D
... also xfingers.
I listened to The Sarah Jane Adventures. Reason the billionth why I hate having to get here for 0930 - when I only have to get there for 1330 then it takes there and back again to listen to a whole adventure. When it has to get there for 0900 then it takes the whole book to get there. Not cool.
The story was pretty cool though.
They're read by Sarah Jane, which mostly makes me notice how much of the TV series isn't actually about her. Also that her impressions of other people's voices are more amusing than accurate. And when she does her own voice it seems deeper. Weird.
I got all the way to college, in the gates, story done, turned off the MP3 player...
And realised I'd left the library book bag, full of library books, right on the floor where it was put neatly last night with a big note on it about library fines to remind me to bring the books back.
*facepalm*
So I was feeling pretty much of lose today.
In class the teacher answered my email, only out loud with talking rather than in actual email.
I have the ISBN of the book we should have got.
Also I have been told the unit specification sheets are out of date and to ignore them they need changing.
I'm not sure I like the idea of a course where the specs change. I mean, I get it, but... eh.
We had some good discussion in class. There was some work we were supposed to do on Blackboard, only nobody did. Nobody ever does. This is self perpetuating. It's *boring* being the only one in the conversation. If I'd have had an awake brain cell I probably would have, but I didn't. But, out loud, in class, many people had thoughts. Including me. I possibly overstated the case because I was trying to summarise several authors very quickly, but basically the article referenced several F&SF authors and yet didn't seem to have actually *read* them. It talked about the covers. Inside the covers are all sorts of pretty words! So those authors did not prove what he said they proved, if you'd actually read them. I mean they did but they didn't. Also he seemed to be complaining that SF was all about medieval stuff, when in fact I'm pretty sure Fantasy is on occasion full of medieval stuff, and SF is full of, well, many many things, many of them drawn from all over history as well as spun from less recognisable parts. Basically complaining about knights in armour on SF book covers is missing the point on a grand scale.
I could have argued his point much better than he did.
If you oversimplify both the modern and medieval eras then yes they're exactly the same.
It would still only be a very partial view though.
So, anyway, there was that bit, and then much about the Wife of Bath, and then the lesson ran out.
We'll be back on Greek next week.
I'll have an exam in room G2. Everyone else will have an exam in F210 where they have the teaching. I'm sure that's at least a percent of more difficult. *pout*
... no, I'm just irritated because I've been here 7 years and I still didn't know where G was. It's in the building they're going to knock down for the new build, apparently. I'll discover it on the way out.
The good thing about today - and I needed a good thing - was I had a Cunning Plan that turned out to be actually cunning, and not in the sense involving Baldrick and/or weasels.
I found in the notes about units a ten credit level 1 module called Individual Study. I did study individually the Doctor Who unit. So I wondered, could I call it that? I was thinking along the lines of handing in the project over again, but that's a No. But, it turns out to be a smart angle, because they can attempt to APL the Doctor Who against the Individual Study, and the learning outcomes will probably match because they're intentionally vague.
As of an hour ago the teacher that is most helpful thought this was a Good Plan.
I'm now :-D
... also xfingers.