Spent the weekend at a Women's Retreat with people from my church. This included much conversation, a jigsaw puzzle, a bonfire, saxophone practice, more conversation, and me sneaking away every few hours to get more homework done ( Read more... )

Somehow, in the next few weeks, I have to figure out how to write an essay ( Read more... )

Having your lecturer offer to look at your resumé and give you tips?
Good.

Your lecturer describing your resumé as "solid - but not lively"?
Pretty good, I guess. (After all, I can make it livelier; it'd be pretty hard to solidify the thing.)Your lecturer hearing that there's a lack of editors at a company, and thinking of you ( Read more... )

I GOT TWO HIGH-DISTINCTIONS!

HD AVERAGE!!!! WOO!!!!

(For non-Aussies: an HD means I got at least 80% for a subject. It's the highest mark you can get.)

*squees and runs around like a mad thing*

I got to go on an excursion!

Woo!

To a publishing house!

Woo!

Where we talked to marketing people, and publicity people, and publishing rights people, and NONE of the editors! Because none of us want to, for instance, actually do editing as a career!

*glares*

...it was still pretty interesting, though.

I’ve been corrected in the comments to my last post for pluralising “Mary-Sue” incorrectly ( Read more... )

Did I mention that computers kinda suck? Because they do.

( I got wordy... )

Brought my Collins English Dictionary.
Brought my Fowler's Modern English.
Brought my Guide To Grammar.
Brought my Hart's Guide to Style.
Felt very organised.

Forgot my folder, which contains my pens, my notes, and my homework...

*facepalm*

From my editing textbook, in a brief explanation of metric units:

"One millipicture is a quantity of art equivalent in value to one word."

It confused me - and then it made me laugh.

Last week, our lecturer handed out lots of paper with interesting diagrams about the publishing industry.

And this week, he noticed that one of them had a spelling mistake on it - so he redid the diagram, minus spelling mistake, and handed it out to us again, so that we wouldn't get distracted by bad spelling ( Read more... )