2007-09-28 20:38:00
A few weeks back I bought that Nightwatch DVD, right? Well, I watched it today and I have mixed feelings.
The imagery and special effects are great. The casting was done pretty well and I love the way the movie was filmed. Very freaky!
But my $DEITY! Did they ever mangle the story line! No, mangle isn't strong enough. They tore it to shreds, flushed it down the drain, picked it up on the other end and pieced it together again. The movie's story line is confusing, doesn't explain things one yot, and is full of inconsistencies.
It really doesn't do the book any justice. Shame, because it looks -really- good!
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2007-09-28 07:00:00
I would pay serious money to travel back to 1998. More specifically, I would go into serious debt, just to visit the Earth girls are easy concerts by The Seatbelts.
Bad dog no biscuit!
From here.
Yoko Kanno is a freaking genius and the band is just made up of pure awesome. I'm just tingling with energy listening to their live performance, even after that crappy YouTube clip.
Of course, the next best thing would be to grab a beamer and to find someone who owns a DVD of that concert. I don't think there -are- any DVDs though :(
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2007-09-27 21:54:00
Feh! I hate it when I feel confused, angry and sad at the same time. Throwing one of my tempter tantrums just cost me a thirty euro stylus. For that one split second the explosion feels great, but the seconds leading up to it and the hour after it suck.
This isn't the first time I've busted things either. At least one cellphone and a keyboard have suffered at my rage. I'm just glad it doesn't happen very often :)
Screw homework. I'm going to bed, since apparently I need my sleep. I'll catch up tomorrow.
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2007-09-27 11:28:00
Dear Lord, would it bother you to sometimes check in on what your people are doing?
Archbishop Chimoio told our reporter that abstention, not condoms, was the best way to fight HIV/Aids.
"Condoms are not sure because I know that there are two countries in Europe, they are making condoms with the virus on purpose," he alleged, refusing to name the countries.
"They want to finish with the African people. This is the programme. They want to colonise until up to now. If we are not careful we will finish in one century's time."
Yes, of course. Us evil Europeans want to finish off all Africans, so we can take their land. And we'll do it by poisoning the condoms we're sending them with HIV. What the hell is wrong with these people?! X_X
From here and here.
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2007-09-26 11:08:00
Phew, that was a potential CLM...
A few months ago, on one of the fora I frequent, there was a thread asking about work experiences at $PREVIOUSCLIENT. Not wanting to break any NDAs I didn't go into details. I did however mention that it wasn't a fun place, nor one that put value on professional attitudes. I also happened to make a not-so-nice comparison with one of history's less-than-nice eras.
Anywho, it seems that one of the guys at $PREVIOUSCLIENT went looking for threads like those and ran into the comment I left. Word hadn't reached management yet, but I -was- called by a fellow Snower. Worried about the effect the comment may have on the ties between Snow and $PREVIOUSCLIENT he asked me to change the comment. Which I did.
In retrospect I have to agree with the guy: it wasn't smart of me to even participate in the thread. But seriously, when you're frustrated about something big, it's hard to not talk about it. You want to let it out and you want to warn others before walking into a trap. Let's just hope that this doesn't turn nasty.
In the meanwhile I'll scour my website and the rest of the web for other nasties that I may have left.
EDIT: Sorry Ars Lounge. Forgot to close a double quote.
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2007-09-25 09:45:00
About a week ago I turned in my first two reports for "Statistics 1 - Didactics".
The first report focused on maths education using the Getal en ruimte (Numbers and space) method. My final conclusion was that G&R is a nice enough method, teaching students the whole gammut of statistics. IMHO, the big downside to the Getal en Ruimte books is that they're so damn distracting. Each page is a colourful, multimedia explosion. Each assignment and piece of text has markers/identifiers in the margin to further confuse matters.
The ironic thing is that I used the same G&R series in high school. Back then they were awesome books: clear, transparent, not too hectic and a joke here and there. Things have changed a lot since I was a kid.
The second report covered the final terms for maths education in VMBO. I couldn't get my hands on all of the required books, but I managed to wing it. The Getal en ruimte method proved itself again for VMBO, readying the student for his final terms. I think the books may have glossed over a few terms a little lightly, but most students should be fine for their exams.
Both reports received a "ZG" score which translates into "Very Good". Awesome! :3 I'm definitely going to try my best to keep this score up!
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2007-09-24 08:46:00
On my first day at college (the one four weeks ago, not the one eleven years ago) I'd given the school cafeteria a try. They serve a hot meal, sandwiches, deep fried snack and all sorts of drinks. A regular cafeteria you could say.
Since that day I've vowed not to eat there again. The hot meals don't sell fast enough and are thus left on the hot plate way too long. Thus potatoes start to get tough, meat turns dry and peas turn into pebbles.
I started bringing dinner myself, which started out with letuce and tuna. Basic, yet tasty, yet mildly boring. After that came lentils and mixed veg. Much better! And this morning I cooked macaroni so I could make a pasta/tuna salad, with some onion, garlic, and mayo.
Now I'm looking for more recipes that I will be able to bring along to school!
If any of you have any ideas for food that will last about seven hours in the back of my car, that'd be great! Remember, it's starting to get cold outside again, so I'm not too bothered about heat and such. (though I -could- bring along a small cooler to keep my meal cold)
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2007-09-22 11:46:00
I love my white board! For stuff like this it's indispensable. |
For one of my school assignments I was asked to write three class openings for the subject of statistics. The object of a class opening is to draw in the students, to capture their attention and to motivate them. |
One of the other openings I've designed involves the famous Monty Hall problem. The one that involves a gameshow, three doors, two goats and a car. Ring a bell?
Because this problem is so counter-intuitive it tends to throw a lot of people off. Their gut instinct tells them that the chance of winning a car (after revealing one of the goats) should be 50%. They are unfortunately incorrect.
Before we continue, some of you may enjoy a snippet from the TV show Numb3rs. The character of Charlie Eppes doesn't explain the solution very clearly, but does make a nice job of explaining the problem.
Numb3rs-MontyHall.mov
I tried to come to the proper solution by myself by using a decision tree (boom diagram in dutch). It took me a while, but I got there :) My tree looks a bit different from the one Wikipedia shows (linked above), but that's because I use two trees instead of combining them into one.
Going from left to right:
* The original tree, unconstrained, given that you get two choices.
* The gameshow host takes away one of the goats. He asks you whether you want to switch doors.
* The decision tree, should you stay with the door you chose.
* The decision tree, should you decide to switch doors.
The red X-es show the option taken away by the host. The purple X-es show the option taken away by your own choice.
Yes, it's counter-intuitive, but switching doors after having one goat revealed IMPROVES your chances. Instead of having a 1:3 chance, you now have 2:3! Nice!
And this is why I think this problem would make a nice opener for a high school course on statistics. It stumps the kids, makes them curious and them amazes them :)
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2007-09-21 13:50:00
Yesterday evening I had a long chat with my father about all the stuff he's up to. Apparently he's busy getting a better hold on his financial situation. It's a healthy but slightly disorganised one. A lot of stuff I wasn't aware of came up, involving his company, his SO and so on. It was great to have a chat like that, knowing that he wants to keep us abreast of the big stuff in his life.
The aforementioned "lucky break" came when he offered to help pay for my trip to Japan. I've always been very pig-headed about accepting financial help, but I guess I'm learning to let go because I told him I'd be very happy to accept. Hacking it on our own, being independent is one thing. Not taking into account the bigger picture, is a wholly different thing.
So... Thank you dad! Thank you very muchly! :)
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2007-09-21 08:05:00
Simon sez jump! |
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I love this picture just too much for it to be a Photoshop. Please $DEITY, make this a very lucky shot with the camera. It has to be real. ^_^
Via I can has cheezburger?.
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2007-09-19 07:35:00
About a week ago I remarked how college books are mixed bag. Some of them seem really good, though others are almost crap.
Well, the whole mixed bag deal also goes for the course curricula themselves apparently. On Monday a big discussion broke out during SLB1 about the courses' contents. Marjan thought there was too little theory, Karin though teaching by examples is great, Wouter though the maths was too easy, Badegul thought the maths were too complicated. And here I was, loving all of college, thinking everything's just right. (transcription)
The points me and Hans tried to make were these:
* College has to cater to the lowest, common denominator. During their first year they have to take a whole bunch of -very- different people and ready them for the following years. You simply can't be very specific in your teachings during the first year.
* Isn't college about going out and finding the answers for yourself? If an assignment uses terms that you don't understand, shouldn't you go investigate? Or at least talk to the docent?
At least it's good to know that I'm not the only one still adjusting to college :D
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2007-09-19 07:01:00
Mars is amazing! Mars is amaaaazing... |
Last night was an interesting exercise. |
If our college would've had a yearbook in 2000, I would probably have been the guy voted "Most likely to die of a heart attack before his thirties". That's actually a line The Saint uttered when we were still in school together. Back then I was the stressful, organised one who got his panties in a bunch when the rest of the group were taking a more relaxed approach. I guess I still am.
However, I don't feel like playing those odds anymore. Taking my current age (closer to thirty), weight and cholesterol into account I find the Grim Reaper's changes of rolling box cars have considerably improved :/
So yesterday I was forced to forget about school for a while. We went out for dinner around seven and didn't come back until around eleven. We had fun, of course :) But it was quite remarkable to see my body's reaction to this situation. I was physically feeling ill at ease, while my head was trying to cope with "not working".
So, Peter, Wendy, Marli: I'm sorry for seeming uninterested at the dinner table. I -did- enjoy myself and I'm glad you guys dragged me out of the house.
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2007-09-18 09:35:00
I woke up hyperventilating again. That's three times in four weeks, almost exactly two weeks apart. The last one before that was two months earlier. As a reminder: it's not the wheezing kind of hyperventilation, but the burning-feeling kind.
There's no discernible pattern, as the days were wednesday, saturday and now tuesday. I guess that it's probably not related to my job, which we suspected earlier.
Stress? Exhaustion? Panic attacks in my sleep? Who knows. I do know I'm keeping a close eye on this shit. :/
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2007-09-16 09:41:00
Great acting all around. |
You know, I'd swear I'd written about V for Vendetta before. I bought and devoured the comic book a few months ago. I loved it, though I have to admit that it wasn't the easiest read ever. I saw very strong ties with 1984, likening the storyline to what could've happened to Brittain if folks like Winston had stood up for themselves. |
Before I comment on anything related to the screenplay, let me say that it was a stroke of genius casting to get John Hurt to play the role of Adam Sutler. John Hurt of course played Winston in the movie rendition of 1984, giving a striking portrayal of one of Oceania's oppressed citizens. Imagine my surprise to see one of Big Brother's oppressed assuming the character of his own Big Brother! In a further stroke of irony, that cannot have been anything but intended, both Winston's and Adam's final, climactic scenes share many similarities. I'd almost expected Adam to cry out: Do it to her! Do it to Julia! Don't do it to me!.
Which actually refreshes my mind some more! Was it in 1984 that there was a first mention of that final inch that they will never be able to take? Or was it in V and am I imagining things?
Now... The screenplay adaption of V contained many dissimilarities when compared to the comic book. Many of these changes were functional and an almost entirely new story was forged. I enjoyed this new story quite a lot and think that the author(s) did a great job. The only thing that vexes me is the humanization of the character V towards the end. V was always intended to be the personification of an idea. Breaking that down, if only a little, to fit in the oh-so-required love scene detracts from the original story.
All in all, V for Vendetta is a great book and was made into a great movie! It gives one food for thought, as do other, similar books. Knowing that stories like these can still be written and heard gives one a little hope for humanity. Knowing that there are still people out there, smart enough to be critical of their government and to propagate said ideas.
Then again, it may all be a ruse by them to lull us into a false sense of security, or of empowerment. ;)
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2007-09-15 08:24:00
Movie posters found here |
In the Netherlands Free Record Shop is generally viewed as one of the DVD/CD/Game shops that makes you go "meh". They have a huge selection, but the store has a cheap feel to it. The people who work there are usually selected on their looks it seems, as opposed to their knowledge. |
EDIT: Sorry Ars Lounge, for temporarily screwing up the layout. It's been fixed already.
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2007-09-12 22:40:00
Recently I've been doubting Jonathan Schwartz's leadership of Sun Microsystems. (Sun is the manufacturer of my favourite Unix hardware.) I mean, John seems like a nice guy and all, but some of the ideas implemented under his leadership freak me out.
A few weeks back Sun proudly announced that they would change their stock ticker index symbol from "SUNW" to "JAVA". They apparently felt that the name of their most well-known product is more representative than their own company name. Something about the name "Java" being known to everyone on the web.
Sure, you're right about that. Everyone on the web knows "Java" and thinks "slow" and "crappy" when they hear that name. When I think about Sun I want to think of their wonderful operating system Solaris. I want to think about the cool hardware they put together and the shiny new tech they come up with. I DO NOT want to be reminded of that language that was used to create bog-slow applications.
And then there's today's announcement.
Sun Microsystems is becoming a Microsoft Windows OEM partner.
Sweet Jeebus, is that the Doomsday Bell I hear ringing? To them it might be a survival strategy. To me it looks like rolling over and playing submissive to Microsoft.
I want Scott McNealy back! That was a guy I could put my faith in.
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2007-09-11 19:33:00
How is it possible for one book to be both highly educational and (IMNSHO) absolutely craptacular at the same time? Case in point: Lesgeven en zelfstandig leren by Geerlings and Van Der Veen.
This course book covers basic didactics of teaching at the high school level. It covers all kinds of interesting subjects and I feel that there's a lot for me to learn.
Unfortunately the book's laced with three things that irk me.
1. To me it seems that the authors often skim over stuff that could be very interesting. Instead of taking an analytical, or academic approach, they fill chapters with examples and stories. There's nothing wrong with examples, but neither is there with pure psychology.
2. The book feels outdated and like it was written by cuddly-fluffy psychologists. The kind who want to pamper kids and feel that they should be let free to explore their youth and possibilities. *cue Care Bear song* Seriously, I'm all for letting kids discover what they can and can't do, but I believe that in the end kids also need structure and hierarchy. Besides, the original print was written in the eighties D:
3. Their writing is atrocious at times. At the beginning of chapter five there's a sentence that runs for a full -ten- lines! It runs a hundred and thirty words in length! What the fsck were they thinking?
And then there's pure genius like this:
In reality, assessing the beginning situation [of a student] is done based on 'experience'. This is a conglomerate of pedagogic-didactical knowledge and intuition.
/me shakes head
/me goes back to studying
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2007-09-11 12:49:00
Heheh, that's pretty nifty. |
Well, that was a surprise! I was dicking around in Osiris, the online student management toolset at HU. Enrolling in a few classes, signing up for tests and term papers, just generally looking around and exploring. |
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2007-09-11 08:27:00
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Funny that this comics should come up on XKCD, just while we're studying statistics at school.
I love the XKCD comics. Just how mr. Munroe succeeds in making stick figures so emotive is beyond me!
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2007-09-09 20:01:00
Mmm. That looks pretty good! |
After versions 1.0 and 2.0 of my okonomiyaki recipe, comes version 3.0 ^_^ |
It tasted pretty good! It wasn't the sticky, tasteless batter like last time and it wasn't as heavy as the first time. 't Still was pretty filling, mind you :)
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2007-09-09 14:52:00
Of course! Obviously that's the formula for standard deviation. Why didn't I see that? |
I'm going to have to learn LaTex. |
Would you even consider making the image above in something like Word? Or in a graphics program? Or even a piece of DTP software? I sure as heck wouldn't. There's just too much that can go wrong.
Luckily, Tex is a very powerful tool that will allow you to describe the formula. Once your description is done, Tex will generate the text and thus the formula.
My formula above is written as follows:
\sigma = \sqrt{ \frac{ \sum_{i=1}^n (\chi_{i} - \bar{\chi})^2 }{n} }
Of course, a n00b like me can't figure out all those codes by himself, so I've gotten a very useful piece of software: LaTeXiT. Written by Pierre Chatelier, LaTeXiT allows you to click together a formula. Once done, it'll export the formula as a PDF that you can use anywhere. Awesome!
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2007-09-08 23:06:00
I'm doing the exact opposite of what every student in this city is doing. While they're out partying and drinking, I'm at home studying all night. However, nothing's to keep me from noshing away on the same grub they're having!
Midnight shoarma is the best shoarma! Even if it's the crappy, supermarket, pork variety. Shoarma is Lord and Master of Saturday night!
<Homer>& Mmm... Garlic sauce... <⁄Homer>&
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2007-09-08 19:10:00
Wow, this is a lot of work :)
Yesterday I raced through a large part of my first dossier assignment for Statistics 1. The didactical part of the course, that is. I'm about halfway through that assignment, though what remains will take more effort than what I did yesterday.
How do I know this? Because the second part of that assignment requires that I work through each maths assignment that I picked for my report. And judging by today's progress through the other part of Statistics 1 (the real maths), I'm going to need a long while.
My homework for Monday said that I'd need to study paragraphs 1.0-1.3 and 1.4-1.6. Sounds rather simple right? Well, it looks it too, since each paragraph is only two pages. However, looks can be deceiving since so far I've needed about an hour-and-a-half per paragraph! Ouch!
Talk about underestimating the workload! Tonight's gonna be an all-nighter.
Luckily, productivity blog LifeHacker provided me with something useful today! They posted about the why and how behind power naps. I took one this afternoon before studying and I'll take another one around 20:00.
EDIT:
Meanwhile, the cat's asleep on her pillow. She's actually snoring! That's so cute! <3
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2007-09-07 09:45:00
It has to be said: my buddy The Saint saved me from a tight spot.
He hooked me up with some of our old college syllabi from seven years ago, which will help me get some "free" ECTS this year. He also found his sister's old TI-83 and asked his mom to sell it to me. That maneuver right there saved me fifty euros! $_$
So, thank you The Saint. You've been a great help!
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2007-09-07 08:26:00
One of our nation's clowns: Geert Wilders. |
Good Lord... =_= |
All of this political crap is so counter-productive!
We've got idiots like Geert Wilders (pictured above), lashing out at any vestige of Islamic culture in the Netherlands. Just a few weeks ago his party submitted a motion to legally forbid the Koran. And if that wasn't stupid enough, he's now accused a fellow politician of treason. Why? Because she said that, yes, "I expect that in a few hundred years the Netherlands may have a Judeo-Christian-Islamic culture".
So for stating the obvious, this woman is deemed a traitor to the country. What the fsck?! This is how all cultures work! They evolve over time! Did you honestly think that right from the Stone Age the Netherlands were inhabited by Christians and Jews?! Screw that! We were a bunch of filthy heathens, scratching around in the mud! All of that Judeo-Christianism that you value so much was either imported or forced onto us hundreds of years ago.
Schmuck.
And then there's the Partij van de Arbeid. I used to think that they were folks who could get things done; go-getters if you will. But these days they're a bunch of spineless wimps! Now that they're no longer in the opposition, they're afraid to lose votes. But instead of acting and being decisive, they're firmly stuck in the middle. They don't want to speak out against muslims, but they also don't want to speak for them too much.
From a weak group like that emerge classic lines like "We are firmly behind our colleague and we fully agree with him, but we will not sign his motion because we cannot fully agree with it." The motion in question being about the protection of ex-muslims who've left their religious community.
Seriously, let's all stop making such a big deal out of this! We've opened up our borders, we invited them ourselves, so have some decency and live with the consequences.
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2007-09-06 11:31:00
A little over six months ago I was home alone for about a week, while Marli took a well deserved trip to the UK. The week flew by and I didn't really notice any big changes, mostly because I kept so busy.
Well... Tonight Marli will embark on a trip down up the Rhine with a friend of hers. Nathalie and her husband co-own a freighter that hauls all kinds of stuff between the Netherlands and Germany. Marli was invited to join them on one of their trips, to have a bit of a holiday.
The realisation has just hit me that:
* Tonight she'll leave
* I won't see her for about a week
* Yes, I will be home alone, again
I didn't realise it before... I guess I've been too busy with work and school. *sigh* Just like last time I'll get through things easily, not noticing much because I'm so busy. But that doesn't mean things won't get lonely in the evenings :/
EDIT:
Nathalie quickly informed me that they'll be travelling UP the Rhine, not down it. Which is of course logical, since they'll travel upstream. Or actually, I hope they'll travel up AND down the Rhine because I don't feel much for driving seven hours to pick Marli up in the south of Germany ^_^;;
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2007-09-05 21:45:00
Please let the record state that Canon are a bunch of f-ing toolboxes when it comes to their scanners. More specifically, when it comes to using their scanners in Mac OS X. Some of their older models are completely unusable, although there are tricks, rituals and voodoo that may get you varying results.
I've fought a few times to get my N650u to work.
I need to scan some stuff for school. Since I cannot drag along my Powermac (which runs the Classic Canon tools) I've fought my Macbook for an hour or so tonight. I tried all the crap that's out there, but Canon's software's crap. So I caved in and bought Vue Scan. Thankfully it's come down in price since the last time I wrote about it.
At least I can use the bill for VueScan to get a tax write-off, since it was a purchase made for school. *sigh*
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2007-09-04 22:14:00
Wow, they sure don't spare us in our first weeks! |
Holy crap! I just entered all of my homework and such for the following few weeks. The screenshot to the left is my current ToDo list in Schoolhouse 2. You probably can't see it very clearly, but it boils down to the following. |
Now I'm off to bed. For now I'll stick to a regimen where I do schoolwork both before and after my normal, sysadmin work. So there's a bit in the early morning and the rest is between 1900 and 2200.
Like I said earlier today: I've good reason to be nervous!
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2007-09-04 15:54:00
Saturday I decided to spend a bit of our grocery money on two herbal teas.
The chamomile tea seems to help me relax a little. Although maybe this is down to the fact that I choose to relax. Kind of like a mental trigger: chamomile tea? -> relax! Whichever it is: I like the taste and the moment of quiet it helps me create.
The hybiscus/senna tea however seems to be doing overtime! I've always had tricky bowels. For years on end they've been agitated and very susceptible to stress. I can't go on a day trip without knowing where to find a loo :( To be honest, since I started drinking said tea (one cup a day) things have been more regular. But man! If this is how "normal" people feel all day, then I don't want to be normal. :D Either that, or there's some major cleanup happening down there.
Hmm, I'll see how things are in a day or two :)
EDIT:
In hindsight I -could- always go back to my herbalist days and make my own teas. Nothing like a bit of nettle, or lemongrass!
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2007-09-04 10:34:00
A satelite view of my school. |
Wow! I'm feeling exhilarated! This whole going-back-to-school thing rocks ^_^ |
So yea, that's a little intimidating. Being one of the few who have no teaching experience whatsoever and who don't currently hold a teaching position. That second part is really important for classes that need me to do project in a teaching environment. Where the heck am I going to find a bunch of thirteen year olds, just to try some teaching methods on them?!
Aside from the exhilaration, there's also nervousness. I'd already mentioned it before, but it's still there. The feeling that I -know- that I can fail at what I'm doing here. The feeling that I'm treading completely new ground. The feeling that I'm getting in over my head. Mind you, I'm still loving it, but that doesn't mean I don't feel the fear :)
About the workload... I was prepared for (and expected) a lot of work. However, it seems that I underestimated things a little. Aside from working 32 hours a week for Snow I will also need to spend about 40 hours per week to earn my ten credits this semester. The basic math: 1 ECT equals about 28 hours of work. Three of my courses are good for hard credits: 10 ECTS in total. So in about seven weeks I'll have to shift 280 hours of work. Ouch! Goodbye social life! :)
Ah well... First, let's see how hard things really are.
In the meantime Marli is a great value to me, giving me loadses of support! The fact that she's so proud of me and has faith in me really means a lot!
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2007-09-03 07:27:00
Wow! Today's the first day of school and it already feels rather different! I went to bed around 2130, read for an hour, then slept like a brick. And I woke around 0700, instead of the usual 0600 on workdays. This actually feels rather nice! Combine that with yesterday and I'm feeling rather relaxed!
You see, yesterday I was feeling really worked up because I hadn't studied yet, nor done any of my maths revision like I said I would. Too much time had gone into this site's redesign and after that I was just too busy socially. Of course, getting worked up in this case was counter productive: how much could I do in just a few hours?
So instead I decided to follow the sage advice of my wiffums and some of my friends: I relaxed. After taking Marli to work I went back to bed, read a lot, slept a bit and chomped away half a tube of Pringles. So yea, it may have been a "horrible" evening, but IMHO it was "great".
I'm sorry that I had to blow of Peter's invitation for a walk though. He was reaching out to me, but I didn't go. I'll go and visit them this week...
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2007-09-01 15:09:00
A rare sight indeed! ^_^ |
Yesterday Marli took longer to get home, up to the point that I'd started to get worried. What the heck might take her so long that she isn't home within half an hour after leaving work? Fret-fret, OMG what if something happened? Stuff like that... |
You may imagine my surprise when she ducked into the bedroom and later emerged in her new threads. Seriously, I love to see her wear clothes like these (with punky influences) and IMHO they're perfectly suitable for going out for drinks. Now all we gotta do is actually go out for drinks ^_^;;
The picture doesn't show it properly, but that skirt's got all kinds of details that I absolutely love. A zipper here, a pocket there and ruffles and pleats along the bottom. Very cute!
Anywho: I'm very proud of her for daring to take the step. Buying clothes like these takes a lot of confidence and it's great to see that she's coming to grips with her own physique.
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