Hello someone
I had a repeat experience of something I'd long forgotten today - a driving lesson! Today i practised steering correctly (as opposed to steering in a quicker, more efficient, but slightly unsafe method which I've adopted since falling out of practice) which was quite fun. Then there was turning in the road (or 3 point turn to some) which was a tad more difficult as I hadn't done many and I ended up colliding with the curb more often than not. As is often the case with learning to drive, the worst thing about failing in some way (stalling for example) is not the failure itself but the embarasment of being stuck in the middle of the road blocking a load of other drivers, which in turn makes it harder to think which then makes it harder to get yourself out of whatever jam you're in. Then I did a bit of bombing down dual carriegways, which is always enjoyable!
Well that's all I have to say
Ciao
Word of the post - prective, I came up with this whilst trying to type 'practice' and if it isn't a word then it should be!! Failing that I'll have "ruddy" as the word for this post.
P.S. I didn't make that many mistakes to be fair, and some of the above is taken from my collective driving experience, not from one lesson!!!
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Writer's block aka Apathy
Hello everyone
It's been a while since I posted so I thought I'd at least stick something up so you know I'm still aware of your needs. I'm sorry for deserting my (dare I dream of it?) readership, but I've been finding it difficult to write about things...which is what I'm going to write about!
Laziness is something of a big factor here I'll admit, and part of why I can't come up with anything decent for my coursework piece is because I quite often can't be bothered, and when combined with other factors it can be a very big deterrant to creativity.
The second factor is distractions. I have a houseguest to entertain, tasks to complete as well as there being a wealth of entertaining TV out there (since our aquisition of E4, Smallville has become a regular element to my week day. Another distraction is blogging, which requires some creativity and effort, but does give the slight satisfaction of having written and published something.
The third factor is, for lack of a better word, depression. It's easy to get a bit disheartened with a piece when it's not progressing as you'd hoped and when you're very aware that deadlines are accelerating towards you. The (often quite poor) organisation of my course, coupled with external factors (mostly transport related) has meant that i have had much less tutor time than I need to properly develop my work which leaves me in dead space, not knoing where and how to progress. Also since both my main pieces are continuations of what I did last year it's hard to create the piece since i largely know what happens already, I just have to write it out and hope it comes out as I imagined it...which it won't!
The fourth factor is just plain old fashioned writer's block - i.e. I find it quite hard to actually come up with an idea and to develop it, due to the above factors and the internal force that tells me that I'm burned out and that there are no ideas left.
So there we are, that's me done for now- I'm going to go and attempt some writing of consequence, goodnight.
Word of the post - favourite
It's been a while since I posted so I thought I'd at least stick something up so you know I'm still aware of your needs. I'm sorry for deserting my (dare I dream of it?) readership, but I've been finding it difficult to write about things...which is what I'm going to write about!
Laziness is something of a big factor here I'll admit, and part of why I can't come up with anything decent for my coursework piece is because I quite often can't be bothered, and when combined with other factors it can be a very big deterrant to creativity.
The second factor is distractions. I have a houseguest to entertain, tasks to complete as well as there being a wealth of entertaining TV out there (since our aquisition of E4, Smallville has become a regular element to my week day. Another distraction is blogging, which requires some creativity and effort, but does give the slight satisfaction of having written and published something.
The third factor is, for lack of a better word, depression. It's easy to get a bit disheartened with a piece when it's not progressing as you'd hoped and when you're very aware that deadlines are accelerating towards you. The (often quite poor) organisation of my course, coupled with external factors (mostly transport related) has meant that i have had much less tutor time than I need to properly develop my work which leaves me in dead space, not knoing where and how to progress. Also since both my main pieces are continuations of what I did last year it's hard to create the piece since i largely know what happens already, I just have to write it out and hope it comes out as I imagined it...which it won't!
The fourth factor is just plain old fashioned writer's block - i.e. I find it quite hard to actually come up with an idea and to develop it, due to the above factors and the internal force that tells me that I'm burned out and that there are no ideas left.
So there we are, that's me done for now- I'm going to go and attempt some writing of consequence, goodnight.
Word of the post - favourite
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Keeping it out of the way
Hello
As I'm quite keen on various aspects of Science-Fiction, in particular large franchises such as Star Wars and the Matrix, it is easy for me to rant on about them incessantly. But I don't feel that this is the place for it, this is a place for me to pass on snippets of information you didn't really need to know, but are interesting enough to keep you reading...whoever you are. so babbling on about spaceships and yuuzhan vong and residual self image might alienate people from what is essentially a common day blog about me. Therefore I've set up a new blog for me and for those inclined to like Science Fiction and the like to rant on about it freely without alienating people who might be interested in us personally.
So if you're that way inclined you can find it here at www.bloggathehutt.blogspot.com
Enjoy
Word of the post - evidentialism
As I'm quite keen on various aspects of Science-Fiction, in particular large franchises such as Star Wars and the Matrix, it is easy for me to rant on about them incessantly. But I don't feel that this is the place for it, this is a place for me to pass on snippets of information you didn't really need to know, but are interesting enough to keep you reading...whoever you are. so babbling on about spaceships and yuuzhan vong and residual self image might alienate people from what is essentially a common day blog about me. Therefore I've set up a new blog for me and for those inclined to like Science Fiction and the like to rant on about it freely without alienating people who might be interested in us personally.
So if you're that way inclined you can find it here at www.bloggathehutt.blogspot.com
Enjoy
Word of the post - evidentialism
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
The words of Jim Friel
I just thought I'd pass on some words given by my lecturer today as I can't see any other context than an IW lecture, besides a crazy drug trip, that these words might be said. Jim has an excellent knack for showing you the weaker parts of your thoughts and writing whilst making you cry with laughter at the same time. This quote was one of his finer moments - I'll explain the context afterwards.
"Yeah, but she's having five babies..and one of them's a puppy!"
OK, the context was that we were debating about whether a character was in enough danger for us to care whether she lived or died. Someone said that they didn't really have any emotional tie to the character even if she was pregnant and in danger, the above was Jim's response to this.
Word - recapitulate
"Yeah, but she's having five babies..and one of them's a puppy!"
OK, the context was that we were debating about whether a character was in enough danger for us to care whether she lived or died. Someone said that they didn't really have any emotional tie to the character even if she was pregnant and in danger, the above was Jim's response to this.
Word - recapitulate
Saturday, March 10, 2007
Mission accomplished
Well I set out a challenge for people to find what kind of weird and whacky blog there are out there and I've finally managed to come up with the four categories I chose. The rules are as follows, keep clicking "Next Blog" until you find all four types of blog earlier mentioned and see how many clicks it takes you. It took me 9 attempts to get all the blogs, see if you can beat me
1. A 'normal' blog - Unleash the freedom - a blog showing the daily dooings of someone who is apparently very chuffed that she isn't in love.
2. A topical blog - Acne Treatments Reviewed - a blog reviewing and testing the best treatments for acne sufferers
3. A foreign language blog - K-996-150 - no idea what this one's about but I think it's Russian
4. A green blog - Joanisms - Whilst not entirely green, it's definitely the primary colour there - the blog is a load of IM conversations with someone's aunt Joan.
Happy hunting folks, but be careful- there's some weird stuff out there!!
Word of the post - axiom
1. A 'normal' blog - Unleash the freedom - a blog showing the daily dooings of someone who is apparently very chuffed that she isn't in love.
2. A topical blog - Acne Treatments Reviewed - a blog reviewing and testing the best treatments for acne sufferers
3. A foreign language blog - K-996-150 - no idea what this one's about but I think it's Russian
4. A green blog - Joanisms - Whilst not entirely green, it's definitely the primary colour there - the blog is a load of IM conversations with someone's aunt Joan.
Happy hunting folks, but be careful- there's some weird stuff out there!!
Word of the post - axiom
Friday, March 09, 2007
Disadvantages to long hair
1. You occasionally find Spiders in it!!
Most of those who know me will be aware that I have longer hair than most, which can just about be described as shoulder length. Now let's be clear first of all i do take (reasonably) good care of my hair, so I'm not some kind warlock sitting in a big chair with snakes crawling out of my mouth as i summon my evil horde. And this wasn't a tarantula or even a daddy longlegs scale creature I found. What i did find, whilst playing snooker, was that a tiny, millimeter long, blows about in the breeze, Charlotte's Web type baby spider hanging from a web atatched to one of the longer strands of my hair. I detatched the web, hanging it on the door handle and the spider seemed perfectly happy and I went back to me game and managed to fight off the urge to feel very itchy!!
Word of the post - epistemology - totally messed up the spelling on my first attempt, i got this from going to a debate between William Lane Craig and Mike Bogan on "Is God a delusion?" it was a very good debate, though a lot of the words flew past me!
Most of those who know me will be aware that I have longer hair than most, which can just about be described as shoulder length. Now let's be clear first of all i do take (reasonably) good care of my hair, so I'm not some kind warlock sitting in a big chair with snakes crawling out of my mouth as i summon my evil horde. And this wasn't a tarantula or even a daddy longlegs scale creature I found. What i did find, whilst playing snooker, was that a tiny, millimeter long, blows about in the breeze, Charlotte's Web type baby spider hanging from a web atatched to one of the longer strands of my hair. I detatched the web, hanging it on the door handle and the spider seemed perfectly happy and I went back to me game and managed to fight off the urge to feel very itchy!!
Word of the post - epistemology - totally messed up the spelling on my first attempt, i got this from going to a debate between William Lane Craig and Mike Bogan on "Is God a delusion?" it was a very good debate, though a lot of the words flew past me!
Friday, March 02, 2007
Men of the world take note!
I recently came across a story that both chilled me and brought hope to me for days to come. This scenario could happen to anyone so learn from Mr Svboboda's experiences and prepare yourselves for something that could easily happen to you.
Read his account here: http://www.theonion.com/content/node/30310
I know...I'm scared too!
Word of the post - precocious
Read his account here: http://www.theonion.com/content/node/30310
I know...I'm scared too!
Word of the post - precocious
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