Too many results all at once. Results make me feel that I've finished. They do not make me feel that I still have vast amounts to do. Still S3 TMA02 result in today, and all is fine with it.
I sorted the web page problem today after some advice from the forum, but am still waiting on a response for my game design stumble. I don't get the game course at all. Every achievement is a fluke. I don't understand the language, the instructions, any of it. This is the first course I have ever taken where I have no way of helping myself. I am entirely dependent on the responses of the course team. I'm not keen on feeling so out of control with my studies. It figures that it was the course that I signed up for when drunk. Sober Rosie would have picked out a science course for sure.
Today I got a text from a mate who's been in New Zealand for a month or so. Very exciting! I had completely forgotten he was coming back - time has flown by. It's due to being under constant study pressure; I seem to miss out experiencing time in the normal way. I miss going to New Zealand. Generally speaking I have happy memories of my times there. I hope he went to some places that I remember.
Number one of the film countdown was 'Up in the air'. I have neither seen it nor heard of it. So that's disappointing. Number two was 'The Road'. I think that would be my number one, as it's pretty much the only film I saw that was actually released in 2010. My list would probably be a mere 3,2,1. Not worthy of a facebook countdown.
I had another attempt at drinking coffee today. Fell at the first hurdle. The smell. Yuk. I really want to like it. It would save me endlessly having to reply to people who ask me out for coffee with 'no, coffee is repulsive, I'll meet you for tea, hot chocolate, or beer, but not coffee'. Apparently 'do you want to meet for coffee' is just an expression, but I am never prepared to take the risk. If I go to someone's house and they offer me a coffee, and I say yes, I can be pretty sure that they're not going to bring me hot chocolate. I don't see why there should be a difference. My longer term friends tend to ask me if I fancy a drink now. That's a far more open ended and sensible way of phrasing it.
I have organised what I can of the last 8 months of my 'Rosie's open degree reward folder'. At first it was born because I didn't want to do a degree, and I felt that every piece of work deserved a reward, because I was doing it to please family members rather than myself. After a few years, I decided that the degree was something that I had chosen to do myself, as they had wanted me to go to a bricks and mortar university, so I was still doing my own thing. I decided to keep the folder going, and the rewards, and now it's quite a little trip down memory lane. My very first reward, in 2005, for completing the first assignment for S103 was seeing Killing Joke in Bristol on one night, and New Model Army in Exeter the following night. Next was Elbow and Ian Brown. For assignment four I went to see the Levellers... on my own! That must have been one of the bravest thingsI ever did. My friend bailed out on me, but I still went. The next year it was New Model Army, Seth Lakeman, Ashton Court, Beautiful Days (Killing Joke, The Proclaimers, Levellers, Buzzcocks, Hayseed Dixie...), Tool, some unknowns and some films. 2007 was Academy in the UK (a highlight for sure), Lewes Folk Rock Festival, Beautiful Days, Shrewsbury Folk Festival, Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten , Perfect Alibi (that was bizarre, a Pink Floyd tribute band with my then manager), New Model Army and so on. I'm onto my second folder for my 2010-2012 courses. There are so many things that I would forget if I hadn't bothered to do it. When I first started it my friends thought it was quite a typical dull Rosie obsession. I think if they saw it now, in its 7th year, they'd be a little jealous. In fact, in recent years, a few people have actually been excited when I've told them that their event has made it into the rewards folder. Unfortunately, having been unusually disorganised and hap-hazard in my filing during the past year, I am missing a lot of ticket stubs. I'm hoping they'll turn up, as the folder now looks disappointingly bare. It looks as though midway through 2010 I turned 87 and became housebound. Or at least stopped having a life outside of study. I can't even find my ticket stubs from Celtic Connections, which is most upsetting. Still, as they don't appear to be lying around the house anywhere, I can assume that I have stored them somewhere that is at least safe. I hope.
Perhaps I've now had a reply about my game. I'm not keen on the idea of going forward before I've fixed the problem, but maybe I'll have to. Herrumph.
Too many results, not enough rewards
Too many results all at once. Results make me feel that I've finished. They do not make me feel that I still have vast amounts to do. Still S3 TMA02 result in today, and all is fine with it.
I sorted the web page problem today after some advice from the forum, but am still waiting on a response for my game design stumble. I don't get the game course at all. Every achievement is a fluke. I don't understand the language, the instructions, any of it. This is the first course I have ever taken where I have no way of helping myself. I am entirely dependent on the responses of the course team. I'm not keen on feeling so out of control with my studies. It figures that it was the course that I signed up for when drunk. Sober Rosie would have picked out a science course for sure.
Today I got a text from a mate who's been in New Zealand for a month or so. Very exciting! I had completely forgotten he was coming back - time has flown by. It's due to being under constant study pressure; I seem to miss out experiencing time in the normal way. I miss going to New Zealand. Generally speaking I have happy memories of my times there. I hope he went to some places that I remember.
Number one of the film countdown was 'Up in the air'. I have neither seen it nor heard of it. So that's disappointing. Number two was 'The Road'. I think that would be my number one, as it's pretty much the only film I saw that was actually released in 2010. My list would probably be a mere 3,2,1. Not worthy of a facebook countdown.
I had another attempt at drinking coffee today. Fell at the first hurdle. The smell. Yuk. I really want to like it. It would save me endlessly having to reply to people who ask me out for coffee with 'no, coffee is repulsive, I'll meet you for tea, hot chocolate, or beer, but not coffee'. Apparently 'do you want to meet for coffee' is just an expression, but I am never prepared to take the risk. If I go to someone's house and they offer me a coffee, and I say yes, I can be pretty sure that they're not going to bring me hot chocolate. I don't see why there should be a difference. My longer term friends tend to ask me if I fancy a drink now. That's a far more open ended and sensible way of phrasing it.
I have organised what I can of the last 8 months of my 'Rosie's open degree reward folder'. At first it was born because I didn't want to do a degree, and I felt that every piece of work deserved a reward, because I was doing it to please family members rather than myself. After a few years, I decided that the degree was something that I had chosen to do myself, as they had wanted me to go to a bricks and mortar university, so I was still doing my own thing. I decided to keep the folder going, and the rewards, and now it's quite a little trip down memory lane. My very first reward, in 2005, for completing the first assignment for S103 was seeing Killing Joke in Bristol on one night, and New Model Army in Exeter the following night. Next was Elbow and Ian Brown. For assignment four I went to see the Levellers... on my own! That must have been one of the bravest things I ever did. My friend bailed out on me, but I still went. The next year it was New Model Army, Seth Lakeman, Ashton Court, Beautiful Days (Killing Joke, The Proclaimers, Levellers, Buzzcocks, Hayseed Dixie...), Tool, some unknowns and some films. 2007 was Academy in the UK (a highlight for sure), Lewes Folk Rock Festival, Beautiful Days, Shrewsbury Folk Festival, Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten
, Perfect Alibi (that was bizarre, a Pink Floyd tribute band with my then manager), New Model Army and so on. I'm onto my second folder for my 2010-2012 courses. There are so many things that I would forget if I hadn't bothered to do it. When I first started it my friends thought it was quite a typical dull Rosie obsession. I think if they saw it now, in its 7th year, they'd be a little jealous. In fact, in recent years, a few people have actually been excited when I've told them that their event has made it into the rewards folder. Unfortunately, having been unusually disorganised and hap-hazard in my filing during the past year, I am missing a lot of ticket stubs. I'm hoping they'll turn up, as the folder now looks disappointingly bare. It looks as though midway through 2010 I turned 87 and became housebound. Or at least stopped having a life outside of study. I can't even find my ticket stubs from Celtic Connections, which is most upsetting. Still, as they don't appear to be lying around the house anywhere, I can assume that I have stored them somewhere that is at least safe. I hope.
Perhaps I've now had a reply about my game. I'm not keen on the idea of going forward before I've fixed the problem, but maybe I'll have to. Herrumph.