So near...
Happiness is...
- getting a pass mark (OK, scraping a pass mark) for an assignment I wrote in 3 days and didn't want to do at all
- being on the final chapter of FFX-2
- knowing it's Friday, tomorrow
Well, I'm not only feeling fully recovered from my trip, I'm actually feeling pretty good at the moment. Monday was not like that - I just couldn't motivate myself to do anything. This was explained when my period turned up on Tuesday. Yeah, my life is sooo exciting.
I've also sorted out all my leave for the rest of the year. I'm having the week after Easter and the week before my birthday (both only count as 4 days 'cos of the Bank Holidays). Then I start my part-time thing in late July. The plan is to spend the week after Easter working on my strategy assignment (and possibly even getting it handed in a week early) and to spend the week before my birthday just pottering (possbily replaying FFX- 2; definitely writing more of 'Holding...') before launching into my dissertation. The time off over the summer will have to involve work on the dissertation, even if it's only reading.
Not sure I'm going to get the Mascot DSs this time round but that's what replays are for, right?
My presentation for Warwick is taking shape - I've sent it to Mark for feedback. Although, apparently, only 14 people have signed up. Still, if a job's worth doing... I'm still keen to impress Triaster, so I want to at least show I've made an effort. Wayne is going to be coming rather than Mark, though, and that means we could go down the night before rather than ridiculously early on the Tuesday morning - not that Colin will be happy about it but he knows he can trust me. For my part, spending time with Wayne is always nice but it's just more practical to go down the night before.
Learning reflections
Really haven't done enough of this but anyway...
Ethics
It is depressing to know how the West has the rest of the world in a fist and keeps the majority of the people in poverty - and how easy it would be to make things different. I've been reading a book called God's Politics for a 'Christian' slant and it's made me rethink my own values. I've always felt my morality was independent of my religion, that I'd have the same morals whether or not I believed in God. But believing in God gives an extra impetus to 'doing good'. And I think I still believe that but it's the extra that's taken on some further meaning. I also wonder whether all those who 'do good' are touched by God, whether they realise it or not? Certainly, they are doing God's work. Which is one of the things that really bothers me about 'only Christians can go to Heaven' but that's another debate. Really not convinced I'll get a good 1,000 words out of all this...
Strategy
This really does not turn me on at all :( I keep hoping for some inspiration but, so far, it's not forthcoming.
- getting a pass mark (OK, scraping a pass mark) for an assignment I wrote in 3 days and didn't want to do at all
- being on the final chapter of FFX-2
- knowing it's Friday, tomorrow
Well, I'm not only feeling fully recovered from my trip, I'm actually feeling pretty good at the moment. Monday was not like that - I just couldn't motivate myself to do anything. This was explained when my period turned up on Tuesday. Yeah, my life is sooo exciting.
I've also sorted out all my leave for the rest of the year. I'm having the week after Easter and the week before my birthday (both only count as 4 days 'cos of the Bank Holidays). Then I start my part-time thing in late July. The plan is to spend the week after Easter working on my strategy assignment (and possibly even getting it handed in a week early) and to spend the week before my birthday just pottering (possbily replaying FFX- 2; definitely writing more of 'Holding...') before launching into my dissertation. The time off over the summer will have to involve work on the dissertation, even if it's only reading.
Not sure I'm going to get the Mascot DSs this time round but that's what replays are for, right?
My presentation for Warwick is taking shape - I've sent it to Mark for feedback. Although, apparently, only 14 people have signed up. Still, if a job's worth doing... I'm still keen to impress Triaster, so I want to at least show I've made an effort. Wayne is going to be coming rather than Mark, though, and that means we could go down the night before rather than ridiculously early on the Tuesday morning - not that Colin will be happy about it but he knows he can trust me. For my part, spending time with Wayne is always nice but it's just more practical to go down the night before.
Learning reflections
Really haven't done enough of this but anyway...
Ethics
It is depressing to know how the West has the rest of the world in a fist and keeps the majority of the people in poverty - and how easy it would be to make things different. I've been reading a book called God's Politics for a 'Christian' slant and it's made me rethink my own values. I've always felt my morality was independent of my religion, that I'd have the same morals whether or not I believed in God. But believing in God gives an extra impetus to 'doing good'. And I think I still believe that but it's the extra that's taken on some further meaning. I also wonder whether all those who 'do good' are touched by God, whether they realise it or not? Certainly, they are doing God's work. Which is one of the things that really bothers me about 'only Christians can go to Heaven' but that's another debate. Really not convinced I'll get a good 1,000 words out of all this...
Strategy
This really does not turn me on at all :( I keep hoping for some inspiration but, so far, it's not forthcoming.