Chaucer

Teach was saying that medieval English often makes more sense if you read it out loud.
So I downloaded a couple of audio clips.
... you know the Swedish Chef thing where he's all noises and then a word jumps out?
... yeah.
So I'm not convinced.

Also the course unit specification says "medieval texts in modern translations". I don't see how that's in any way ambiguous. Yet my notes from last lesson say we're supposed to be reading Chaucer's actual language? Somewhere there is a misunderstanding.

I'm bored, tired, grumpy, and entirely too typo prone to do any useful studying.
And this teacher keeps setting us stuff to do between the Tuesday and Thursday lessons, which is reasonable, except for the thing where I get worn out and sleep.
I never know how full time students cope. They have more lessons in between and round the edges. I don't know where they can put all their studying hours.

Maybe I should make a big detailed timetable with all the travel time and eating and sleeping put in and see how many hours there actually are that seem to get full up of, say, staring at the ceiling, or checking email.

If I could get audiobooks relevant to my course I could do studying and traveling. That would add a bunch of hours a week.
Anyone know where to start looking? Aside from college library, which I can attempt tomorrow.

Big Finish audio adventures 8th Doctor collection

I listened to the 8th Doctor adventure 'Invaders from Mars'.
I didn't hear the fireworks through all the kabooms.
:-)

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I like the 8th Doctor. Paul McGann does too count. Just the movie doesn't. Well, mostly. Bits of it were fun. He was a perfectly good Doctor even then. In audios he has stories to be a good Doctor in.


So now I have ten minutes to actually get to sleep in order to get enough sleep for college tomorrow.
... my time management could be better.

But the audio adventure is fun :-D


(Tiny niggly problem with the MP3 player - there's a slight pause between tracks. I didn't even notice with the audio book, but with the audio adventures they have background music and fades between scenes and complicated stuff like that. If they changed tracks in silence I'd never notice, but there's a lack of silence, so it interrupts every time. Not optimal then.)