Victory!

[morsla]

The Deakin students have successfully convinced the uni to make lecture recordings available as podcasts, instead of restricting them to audio streaming. There are no actual lectures for my Law & Ethics subject, but the 3rd Year lectures in Geelong are covering the same topics as we are, so the lecturer has recorded everything for us. Each lecture coincidentally runs for the same time as my tram trip to uni... now I can listen to them while I'm travelling in to my tutorials. It's nice when the technology fits the users, instead of requiring the users to change.

I'm actually (horror!) enjoying the report-writing section of the communications subject. Each task involves a fictional case study (background, current situation, problems), needing a coherent report to summarise the issues and give recommendations to fix them. Lots of lateral thinking, lots of reading between the lines and lots of tangled information that needs to be teased out into a logical structure. I could happily do this for a living, if anyone would pay to have their workplace problems sorted for them.

Editing is also going well. I'm still missing a few details in the exercises as I've been rushing through without checking the dictionary often enough... however, when I slow down I'm as efficient as anyone else, and when I'm hurrying through I don't miss more than about one in ten errors. The exercises are designed to include unusual and deliberately tricky errors, so this is hopefully better than it looks. I'm fairly confident that I can cut down on the error rate by learning more of the underlying grammar - this will happen as I go, and won't affect the speed at which I work. I'm keeping my eye in by doing lightning-speed copyediting for Weapons of the Gods material...

Unfortunately, I've just discovered that there is a bigger pile of assessment due next Monday (and this Friday) than I'd thought. Fortunately, aeliel is also doing homework this weekend (she has ~175 interim school reports to write) so we may just bar the doors all weekend and write. Must remember to lay in supplies in case we don't make it out of the house.

Actually, I should leave the house at least once in the weekend. Last week's bruises have healed, so it must be time to practice some more firetwirling in the park. I'll get the hang of throws and contact staff tricks one way or another...

Comments

[bonesinger.livejournal.com]

Mmmm. Firetwirling bruises. I remember the egg I got on my head the first and only time I picked up a firestick. Thank god it wasn't lit!

[morsla.livejournal.com]

I tend to have far fewer accidents when the sticks are burning - something about the sight of fire seems to switch on some kind of defence mechanism, and I pay much closer attention to what I'm doing.

I mainly ended up with bruises along my wrists - I've been spinning the staff on the back of my hand, and throwing & catching. Catching an object while it's spinning makes things interesting, as you have to grab it and halt its momentum at the same time.

[jilavre.livejournal.com]

MY suggestion is for sunday night twirling and meeting up with the Home of Poi people who twirl on sunday. It might mean missing temple... but I can do that. it's fire after all.

And we sooo need some non-firehappy people with drums and such

[morsla.livejournal.com]

Keep me posted :) I can't guarantee anything, 'cos I just found another 30% assessment thing that's due on Monday (this is what I get for being sick during that class last week... apparently, we were given warning then).

I'd like to come and play, though...