Long day is long
today I went to lesson, not managing to arrive early enough for homeworks. I tried but I didn't get anything useful out of my brain before the teacher arrived. Then there was teaching. We got our assignments. I've decided which one to do already. Maus is interesting. I hope the library book I want is still there on Friday, because I decided today it would be too heavy. Possibly if it is not there I will have to do something that is not Maus.
Other students have noticed my habit of putting my fingers in my ears when one student is talking. I was trying to be not noticed doing that. It isn't the things he says, it's just his voice, it makes my head go wrong like the vacuum cleaner does. It's totally not rational and totally me and I have been trying to keep it to myself. but other students noticed it out loud and took it as a comment on his thinking, and so I had to explain, because I'd rather look crazy than that rude. I like being properly labelled.
After lesson I was in the library for 4 hours doing reading. I have read a lot of the stuff off Blackboard now, and highlighted the ones that allow highlightering. pdfs are not optimised for highlightering, though its good when we can at all. I comment balloon too. Is useful. I'm sure I had thoughts about the specific content this afternoon while reading, but now it is much late and I have not.
Then I went up to the Forum library and renewed a book from there. I was going to pick up some urban fantasy to read in the hour before the pub, but I ended up spending all that time wandering around trying to find any book at all in that genre that was the first in its series. Any. At all. By anyone. In the whole library. ... I don't think I managed. But I did find the second in a series I'd only vaguely decided not to read, so that should work out. Except now I'm home, I have better books right here. So it was a bit pointless really. *Sigh*
Then there was the pub. The topic was Doctor Who. So I kept trying to stay on topic. Because of liking topic. And to be honest I got a bit sulky and argument when there kept on being topic that was not Doctor WHo. Like the merits of digital television, or how I should rewire my house so my video tapes become useable again, or how someone should invent a system that sounded quite a lot like Amazon Recommends only not. I got grouchy. At the end I apologised for being all argue, but that started him arguing again. Do not know how to escape hatch that.
I like Doctor Who. There are many things about Doctor Who I like. I could talk about them all evening happily. I do not understand people who primarily engage with a text they 'like' by talking only the things they don't like. I mean, I talk things I don't like about Doctor Who, but there are also things I like. I not understand people who apparently don't have those.
Then I got a headache, the stabby source where light is not your friend.
And then I was driven home.
And then it was now.
Long day is long.
I realise waking up at 10 and still being on the go at midnight might not look impressive, but it's a whole lot of input.
My head has a spinning full of data/noise now. Will take an hour to unspin.
Other students have noticed my habit of putting my fingers in my ears when one student is talking. I was trying to be not noticed doing that. It isn't the things he says, it's just his voice, it makes my head go wrong like the vacuum cleaner does. It's totally not rational and totally me and I have been trying to keep it to myself. but other students noticed it out loud and took it as a comment on his thinking, and so I had to explain, because I'd rather look crazy than that rude. I like being properly labelled.
After lesson I was in the library for 4 hours doing reading. I have read a lot of the stuff off Blackboard now, and highlighted the ones that allow highlightering. pdfs are not optimised for highlightering, though its good when we can at all. I comment balloon too. Is useful. I'm sure I had thoughts about the specific content this afternoon while reading, but now it is much late and I have not.
Then I went up to the Forum library and renewed a book from there. I was going to pick up some urban fantasy to read in the hour before the pub, but I ended up spending all that time wandering around trying to find any book at all in that genre that was the first in its series. Any. At all. By anyone. In the whole library. ... I don't think I managed. But I did find the second in a series I'd only vaguely decided not to read, so that should work out. Except now I'm home, I have better books right here. So it was a bit pointless really. *Sigh*
Then there was the pub. The topic was Doctor Who. So I kept trying to stay on topic. Because of liking topic. And to be honest I got a bit sulky and argument when there kept on being topic that was not Doctor WHo. Like the merits of digital television, or how I should rewire my house so my video tapes become useable again, or how someone should invent a system that sounded quite a lot like Amazon Recommends only not. I got grouchy. At the end I apologised for being all argue, but that started him arguing again. Do not know how to escape hatch that.
I like Doctor Who. There are many things about Doctor Who I like. I could talk about them all evening happily. I do not understand people who primarily engage with a text they 'like' by talking only the things they don't like. I mean, I talk things I don't like about Doctor Who, but there are also things I like. I not understand people who apparently don't have those.
Then I got a headache, the stabby source where light is not your friend.
And then I was driven home.
And then it was now.
Long day is long.
I realise waking up at 10 and still being on the go at midnight might not look impressive, but it's a whole lot of input.
My head has a spinning full of data/noise now. Will take an hour to unspin.