Burble, burble, tinkle, woosh
Another exceedingly frustrating Friday at work. Had to prepare the stuff for my peer observation on Tuesday and it took all day. As a result I didn't get the lecture for Monday written. And the library didn't close at 7pm like I thought but at 5pm. So I may have to go into work tomorrow again.
I also discovered that Dipsy rewrote the content for the course I am teaching on Mondays without paying attention to the validated course content. The good thing about this is that I don't have to do a lecture on risk taking and adolescence. I think I'll do one on the development of identity instead.
The Marquis fetched me home at about 9pm, which was very nice of him: that way I could load the heavy books on the bike...
Watched Thursdays Six Feet Under which was good and grim as usual.
(Domestic interlude) is so far frustrating me (N.B. Pellegrina if you are reading this, I still want to see where it takes us!). I can't get a handle on the situation yet and Giel is not one of my most comfortable characters. It can be quite difficult to slip into someone that annoys you most of the time and that was designed originally to be a git. I have tried to develop Giel in a way to make him more interesting to me but so far have not achieved this at all. He winds me up and the only thing that he has got going for him is that Gauri likes him -- which doesn't give me much to run with. This in itself is a challenge that I am however willing to take on: get into Giel, and still keep him true to himself. Various options spring to mind: I could break with the character concept more than I have already done and have him open out more. Or I could go with the flow and rationalise after the fact. I could suggest an external influence to keep things on their toes, e.g. he gets offered his job back... Hm. Instalment 12 has just come in I'll read that and see how it goes...
I also discovered that Dipsy rewrote the content for the course I am teaching on Mondays without paying attention to the validated course content. The good thing about this is that I don't have to do a lecture on risk taking and adolescence. I think I'll do one on the development of identity instead.
The Marquis fetched me home at about 9pm, which was very nice of him: that way I could load the heavy books on the bike...
Watched Thursdays Six Feet Under which was good and grim as usual.
(Domestic interlude) is so far frustrating me (N.B. Pellegrina if you are reading this, I still want to see where it takes us!). I can't get a handle on the situation yet and Giel is not one of my most comfortable characters. It can be quite difficult to slip into someone that annoys you most of the time and that was designed originally to be a git. I have tried to develop Giel in a way to make him more interesting to me but so far have not achieved this at all. He winds me up and the only thing that he has got going for him is that Gauri likes him -- which doesn't give me much to run with. This in itself is a challenge that I am however willing to take on: get into Giel, and still keep him true to himself. Various options spring to mind: I could break with the character concept more than I have already done and have him open out more. Or I could go with the flow and rationalise after the fact. I could suggest an external influence to keep things on their toes, e.g. he gets offered his job back... Hm. Instalment 12 has just come in I'll read that and see how it goes...