December

[muninnhuginn]

Read:

• Confessions of an English Opium Eater, Thomas De Quincey (cure for insomnia, if ever there was)
• The Rise and Fall of the Medieval Monastery, Christopher Brooke (50-th(-ish) book of the year)
• Undertow, Elizabeth Bear
• Tales from Earthsea, Ursula le Guin
• The Other Wind, Ursula le Guin

Submitted:

• TT280 ECA (all done)

Finished:

• Lori costume (for LL's school play)

Studied:

• Course intro. for AA302
• OpenLearn: Studying the arts and humanities

Ogled:

• Tutankhamen

Cooked:

• Cup cakes (for concert)
• Cup cakes (for class party)
• Mince pies (for Xmas fair)
• Rum butter (1/2 kg)
• Mince pies
• Xmas dinner (Xmas Eve)

Succumbed to:

• fever
• headache
• sore throat
• lost voice
• cystitis
• ...

Comments

[wingedphaeton.livejournal.com]

I hope you have recovered for the bug: I managed to get 2 colds, one gastric bug and one flu-type bug in the space of 5 weeks. I hope that it my lot for the winter!
Well done for getting the assignments in. Are you enjoying the course??

[muninnhuginn]

Still tired and a bit chesty, but basically better. I hope you are too.

The course is done. It was b-o-r-i-n-g mainly due to it being definitely training and practice in skills with no time to waste (that's how it felt to me) on reasons and theoretical underpinnings. Not my cup of tea: I need to know why. Still, I can code XHTML passably and to conform to standards, I've revised online page design (like paper, except where it's different, but still mainly applied common sense)... and finally remembered why I liked the separation of structure and content, on the one hand, from design and layout, on the other: I hate, hate, hate the latter.

Music, this year. Intimidating, but fascinating.

actually from wingerphaeton!

[(Anonymous)]

I have sympathy with you regarding wanting something a bit deeper in a course. I am not sure I dare ask, but why does design and layout leave you so hateful? whatever the reason, I think you deserve an even bigger pat on the back for persevereing with it all!

What will you be looking at in Music?