Lectures and starlings...

[marymac]

I notetake on three Law modules. Only one of the three lecturers enforces the 'you do not talk when I am talking' thing. I realise the other two are young and want to be hip and all, but honestly, no. Shut them up. They are like a flock of particularly loud starlings. Loud, bratty starlings. How they made it to the second semester of their second

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[mememememeee]

It is the same with me and my lecturs. By the time I finish my hand has cramped and frozen in that position.

I am just like you with the cold...actual pyjamas (long sleeved top and bottoms), then jumper and jacket, gloves and scarf and thurmal underwear and two pairs of socks. Otherwise I will freeze to death and DIE.

[marymac]

I am so out of practice writing fast with not-nice pens. It is very sad. But if I use my nice pen I can't keep up.

I know! These self-heating male creatures Don Not Get It. My mum was worse, back in the day, when we lived in an old, huge, Victorian house with equally Victorian heating. She had a pink fuzzy sleep suit that came to know with awe as the Pink Panther. My dad is still on about it.

[cavgirl]

Oh, is this the notetaking for the twerps at You-Know-Where? I didn't know you'd actually got it. If you're struggling, as a CSW you *are* within your rights to say to the lecturer, "Look, I'm note taking for someone, can you please SLOW DOWN. Or shut the brats up. Or a combination thereof..." Alternatively, you could take a recording as well and then use it to demystify the notes afterwards, but I grant you that'd take longer which might be an issue if your student wants their notes at once.

[marymac]

I'm starting to learn what I need to write and what's on the handout, at least. And n fairness, they talk very fast but do repeat everything several times. But there's a lot of sorting out half-sentences.

Oh lord, taping would be horrific. I'd have to listen to the starlings twice!

[thewhiteowl]

It is BALTIC. My route in to the city centre is pretty clear by now, bar the Puddles of Malevolence, but people coming from the east side of the river tell me it's horrible over there.

We spotted someone walking about in the building opposite this morning. We called it 'the first Wombat sighting'. We were talking about putting a banner in our kitchen window, but we couldn't decide whether we want it to say 'Need a job?' or 'Got any jobs going?' :D

Tsk, what are kids these days coming to? Starlings is very apt.

[marymac]

I know. It's still pretty freezing but people are not doing undignified sliding in the quad anymore. But there's still so much snow on Cave Hill that really hasn't melted at all.

Hee! Poor Gerry is torn between jealousy and liking his imminent extra space.

They're terrors. we were way too scared of Prof Green to ever do that in my second year lectures. He once went and had a fight with the Drama tutor who was doing a workshop in the room above because they were making too much noise (as in, any). That is my kind of discipline!

[thewhiteowl]

The Cave Hill is very pretty, but I don't think it's worth it.