Well still no response to my query so have switched from web design to game design. There's an awful lot of work to be done there. And, to my horror, my EMA content telepathy skills are not as honed as I had previously thought. As the EMA for the web design course was to design a web page, I assumed that the EMA for the game design course would be to design a game. WRONG!! No, it's a whole bunch of questions that currently have no meaning to me. So I guess I'd better start studying the course. I did the first week of work on an inspired day at the beginning of May, and have not looked at it since. I also had a frightening moment where I thought the lessons had all disappeared, as weeks 2,3 and 4 were missing from the calendar. To get so far behind that the web page is actually self deleting is unusual even for me. I got them back though, almost as soon as I started breathing and getting oxygen back into my brain cells. 'Entire planner'. An excellent link. There was no comeback for the deceased brain cells, but the ones that had simple fainted rapidly regained consciousness and started, in various groups, to make quite sensible decisions. Print the EMA. Print the week 2 lessons. Feel that sense of achievement. Don't read them in order to keep said feeling for just one more evening. I don't know how I ever manage to complete any of my courses. My study behaviour is irrational and offers no evidence of practicality or intelligent foresight. Just ignore it, ignore it, ignore it, get scared, get drunk, ignore it some more, and then don't sleep for a week to get it all in. I'd love to say I'll learn another way, but I know that I won't.
I had a great morning. Met an old school friend for lunch. The famous sausage sandwich. What an addiction. The best sausage sandwich in the whole world, and from happy pigs too. And they sell Crabbies. And my friend is good to talk to. She has a funny little yellow car. She gave me a lift home in it, and I felt like Postman Pat. It feels like a little van when you're inside. I liked it. I pre-warned her that during the meal I would randomly and repeatedly say 'I love these sausage sandwiches' and 'I love Crabbies', and that I couldn't help it, and that she should just ignore it. She achieved it pretty well; just the occasional smile. But a smile rather than a frown nonetheless, so it was all good.
Just now I spent some time looking up the expression 'nigh on impossible'. I do not understand why the 'on' is necessary. It doesn't make sense to me with the 'on', other than it being a familiar expression, and so sounding right. Yesterday I was looking up the difference between the use of 'which' and 'that'. Mostly it's obvious, but sometimes it isn't. It was quite interesting. The grammatical rules around their usage were surprisingly complex. I won't go into them here. I already went over them with the friend I met today, and was lucky enough to grab her attention with what would normally be considered utterly dull. She studied English. She finds these things interesting. I will be utilising that knowledge in the future, as I spend quite a bit (too much) time looking into the origins and meanings of words, and how they were used compared to how they're used now, and... oops, done it again. No more talk on that.
Our neighbour has lent us Mr Nice to watch. I'm looking forward to that. I never used to watch films, but I have got quite into them recently. I'm still very annoying to watch them with, as I tend to forget that I've seen them quite quickly, and then deny having seen them. I also have a tendency to walk out of the room when I get bored, but I'm working on that. It's the mark of a good film if I can remember having seen it. Well, for me anyway; perhaps not for others. A friend of mine does a film countdown of all the films he sees released in any one year. When I first started following his countdown, from something ridiculous like number 71, I thought it was pretty strange to make a note of all the films that you watch and bother to put them in order of preference. However, I've quite enjoyed seeing how it pans out. I'm waiting at the moment to find out what number 1 is. I was surprised that I hadn't even heard of at least half of the top ten. I must close my ears to a lot of information. In fact, there's no denying it; I do.
I feel a gooseberry craving coming on, so I'll be off.
Grammar over lunch, of course, what else?
Well still no response to my query so have switched from web design to game design. There's an awful lot of work to be done there. And, to my horror, my EMA content telepathy skills are not as honed as I had previously thought. As the EMA for the web design course was to design a web page, I assumed that the EMA for the game design course would be to design a game. WRONG!! No, it's a whole bunch of questions that currently have no meaning to me. So I guess I'd better start studying the course. I did the first week of work on an inspired day at the beginning of May, and have not looked at it since. I also had a frightening moment where I thought the lessons had all disappeared, as weeks 2,3 and 4 were missing from the calendar. To get so far behind that the web page is actually self deleting is unusual even for me. I got them back though, almost as soon as I started breathing and getting oxygen back into my brain cells. 'Entire planner'. An excellent link. There was no comeback for the deceased brain cells, but the ones that had simple fainted rapidly regained consciousness and started, in various groups, to make quite sensible decisions. Print the EMA. Print the week 2 lessons. Feel that sense of achievement. Don't read them in order to keep said feeling for just one more evening. I don't know how I ever manage to complete any of my courses. My study behaviour is irrational and offers no evidence of practicality or intelligent foresight. Just ignore it, ignore it, ignore it, get scared, get drunk, ignore it some more, and then don't sleep for a week to get it all in. I'd love to say I'll learn another way, but I know that I won't.
I had a great morning. Met an old school friend for lunch. The famous sausage sandwich. What an addiction. The best sausage sandwich in the whole world, and from happy pigs too. And they sell Crabbies. And my friend is good to talk to. She has a funny little yellow car. She gave me a lift home in it, and I felt like Postman Pat. It feels like a little van when you're inside. I liked it. I pre-warned her that during the meal I would randomly and repeatedly say 'I love these sausage sandwiches' and 'I love Crabbies', and that I couldn't help it, and that she should just ignore it. She achieved it pretty well; just the occasional smile. But a smile rather than a frown nonetheless, so it was all good.
Just now I spent some time looking up the expression 'nigh on impossible'. I do not understand why the 'on' is necessary. It doesn't make sense to me with the 'on', other than it being a familiar expression, and so sounding right. Yesterday I was looking up the difference between the use of 'which' and 'that'. Mostly it's obvious, but sometimes it isn't. It was quite interesting. The grammatical rules around their usage were surprisingly complex. I won't go into them here. I already went over them with the friend I met today, and was lucky enough to grab her attention with what would normally be considered utterly dull. She studied English. She finds these things interesting. I will be utilising that knowledge in the future, as I spend quite a bit (too much) time looking into the origins and meanings of words, and how they were used compared to how they're used now, and... oops, done it again. No more talk on that.
Our neighbour has lent us Mr Nice to watch. I'm looking forward to that. I never used to watch films, but I have got quite into them recently. I'm still very annoying to watch them with, as I tend to forget that I've seen them quite quickly, and then deny having seen them. I also have a tendency to walk out of the room when I get bored, but I'm working on that. It's the mark of a good film if I can remember having seen it. Well, for me anyway; perhaps not for others. A friend of mine does a film countdown of all the films he sees released in any one year. When I first started following his countdown, from something ridiculous like number 71, I thought it was pretty strange to make a note of all the films that you watch and bother to put them in order of preference. However, I've quite enjoyed seeing how it pans out. I'm waiting at the moment to find out what number 1 is. I was surprised that I hadn't even heard of at least half of the top ten. I must close my ears to a lot of information. In fact, there's no denying it; I do.
I feel a gooseberry craving coming on, so I'll be off.