Don't do it... be it.
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morslaI'm surrounded by doing. Hundreds of jobs orbit around me, some worked on, some ignored. Underneath it all I'm fighting for a little room to be. Inch by inch I'm hollowing out a new set of foundations, though I wish I hadn't started building during the storm. Large chunks of the past few weeks are still taking form - I have to grow into them, before I can understand the changes that are happening. That will take a while, though - for now, I'll just write about some of the blizzard that flies around me.
Any attempt to plan too far into the future is meaningless; too many variables scour away all that looked solid when I set out. For me, the Spike seems to be about two weeks... project any further than that and the best-laid plans will dissolve into static when reality hits them.
I have fuzzy goals now - once made, I let them lose definition to make sure they survive. I know what I want to do with them, and I know more-or-less how I'll do them. When they happen is no longer as important - relative dates (this task before that one) still hold, but setting milestones in absolute time has only made me feel worse about not finishing things on time.
Folio:
- Silent Streets characters (re-do with Arabolical1 font, which Acrobat should be able to embed)
- Silent Streets module. Write up in modular, "loresheet" style.
- Spontaneously develop computer know-how to zip the two SS files and upload them to my ISP's webspace... then, make them freely available for people wanting to run the game. I've never actually learned what happens between writing content and having it appear on the web...
- Weapons of the Gods loresheets: design a recogniseable, intuitive layout for WotG loresheet information. I'll put out a standing offer to lay out fan-made loresheets, which can hopefully be uploaded somewhere for easy access. This will help people running their own games, and it helps me to get more practice at this stuff.
- Insurgent #3. Lots more 40k and painting articles.
Event management:
- UniCon, September 30 - October 2.
- Volunteer for Australian Earth Sciences convention, July 2-7 2006. I'll dogsbody like nobody's business...
Science communications:
- Start going to the ASC meetings at the pub, although they clash with the only Wudan-style Tai Chi class. This week's meeting is on scientific photography, at the Redback hotel.
- Examine course opportunities for 2006.
- Networking at work, while I'm still here. There are lots of communicators lurking around, and I know I'll kick myself if I leave without speaking to any of them. Must get over being shy, at least for long enough to hold a brief conversation with complete strangers...
In other news, I've been learning the first Wudan Tai Chi form since finishing the International 42. It's drastically different from Sun, Yang, Chen and Wu Tai Chi, and from virtually anything else I've ever learned - far more intricate and complex than the mantis styles, and on par with Liu He Ba Fa for the number of subtle components to each technique. It's eerily intuitive though - I think techniques from Wudan have been hidden in the last few years of warm-ups, so we've been drilling this style for a long time.
I'm working on my strength and balance at the moment, trying to cross the fine line beyond which it's easier to keep going than to stop. I've been leaping all over the place, and walking along every railing I come to :) With my knees bent (it stops me from using them for momentum) I can now do seven chin-ups - two weeks ago I had trouble doing four properly... 10-12 used to be standard though, so I have a long way to go yet.
Any attempt to plan too far into the future is meaningless; too many variables scour away all that looked solid when I set out. For me, the Spike seems to be about two weeks... project any further than that and the best-laid plans will dissolve into static when reality hits them.
I have fuzzy goals now - once made, I let them lose definition to make sure they survive. I know what I want to do with them, and I know more-or-less how I'll do them. When they happen is no longer as important - relative dates (this task before that one) still hold, but setting milestones in absolute time has only made me feel worse about not finishing things on time.
Folio:
- Silent Streets characters (re-do with Arabolical1 font, which Acrobat should be able to embed)
- Silent Streets module. Write up in modular, "loresheet" style.
- Spontaneously develop computer know-how to zip the two SS files and upload them to my ISP's webspace... then, make them freely available for people wanting to run the game. I've never actually learned what happens between writing content and having it appear on the web...
- Weapons of the Gods loresheets: design a recogniseable, intuitive layout for WotG loresheet information. I'll put out a standing offer to lay out fan-made loresheets, which can hopefully be uploaded somewhere for easy access. This will help people running their own games, and it helps me to get more practice at this stuff.
- Insurgent #3. Lots more 40k and painting articles.
Event management:
- UniCon, September 30 - October 2.
- Volunteer for Australian Earth Sciences convention, July 2-7 2006. I'll dogsbody like nobody's business...
Science communications:
- Start going to the ASC meetings at the pub, although they clash with the only Wudan-style Tai Chi class. This week's meeting is on scientific photography, at the Redback hotel.
- Examine course opportunities for 2006.
- Networking at work, while I'm still here. There are lots of communicators lurking around, and I know I'll kick myself if I leave without speaking to any of them. Must get over being shy, at least for long enough to hold a brief conversation with complete strangers...
In other news, I've been learning the first Wudan Tai Chi form since finishing the International 42. It's drastically different from Sun, Yang, Chen and Wu Tai Chi, and from virtually anything else I've ever learned - far more intricate and complex than the mantis styles, and on par with Liu He Ba Fa for the number of subtle components to each technique. It's eerily intuitive though - I think techniques from Wudan have been hidden in the last few years of warm-ups, so we've been drilling this style for a long time.
I'm working on my strength and balance at the moment, trying to cross the fine line beyond which it's easier to keep going than to stop. I've been leaping all over the place, and walking along every railing I come to :) With my knees bent (it stops me from using them for momentum) I can now do seven chin-ups - two weeks ago I had trouble doing four properly... 10-12 used to be standard though, so I have a long way to go yet.
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Date: 2005-07-18 08:50 am (UTC)So please, keep me in the loop about what you've found and I'll keep letting you know what I've found.
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Date: 2005-07-20 03:09 am (UTC)Rosemary is a good choice for the co-ordinator, but I'm a bit worried that the course will be too much like it's component parts (HPS and Media/Communication) - I've studied both at Melbourne, and came away with the impression that I'd end up with a qualification in how to study the field, not how to enter the field.
It's tempting, though. I have about 125 points of HPS floating in the ether at the moment, 'wasted' as I can't take an Exit Award and trade it in for an undergraduate diploma.
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Date: 2005-07-20 10:33 am (UTC)Less, cynically a position in something like Curriculum Development for High Schools could prove interesting. I'll have to ask Laura W's Mum who is in a similar position what she actually does and what sort of things are required to get in.
Public Service doesn't seem like the greatest way to give something back to the people around us. I suspect it would give me a foundation to write a book or so and actually get the ideas I want out there, though.