Catch up

Was just commenting on Jay Jay’s blog so figured I should do myself a favour and make a quick post on here.

Christmas will have to be a post by itself though it’s one I’ve been putting off for a while so maybe it won’t

Got back to Lufbra shortly after the New Year with the intention of getting some work done. This has been my first week back and we have had three courseworks plus a French exam. Right now I’m shattered having submitted the final piece a couple hours ago. I had been running on adrenaline up until that point so my bodies crashing now and claiming expenses back on what I’ve been putting it through, feeding it naff food and sleeping at funny hours with no pattern.

Taking languages has turns out to be a two sided coin at Uni. I take French at level seven currently – that’s the level you go into if you have an A-level – having previously taken level three, five and six (don’t know how/why I skipped level 4 but there we go). A language invariably means that you have language assessment very early. It also means later on as our Engineering exams tend to be later on, I have less exams than anyone else and so more time to do revision. But it can screw you over when you have other stuff to do such as coursework.

It also doesn’t help that nine days ago one of my house mates texted to let me know she’s taking a leave of absence from Uni through till October. That wouldn’t be an issue but we have a house group for our Development Project work. She had done all the original research and so the rest of us didn’t bother getting involved expecting her to present us with that work and we could move on from there. Or at least using that as an excuse to be lazy. So to find out we had a couple weeks to do a bunch of research and put together a report wasn’t great fun. At least we’ll get an Impaired Performance form that should help. Incidentally to throw in a little tech here I did use Freemind to create a nice Mind Map of the information. It’s slow and I didnt have a clue about how to get it to print at 100% size over several pages instead of cramming it all onto one page. Ended up taking screen shots and sellotaping them together.

One thing about all this Social Media stuff, it does make you very aware of the power of sharing. We used this to good effect. Or at least I tried to. First up I stuck all my research onto our living room wall. If we had worked in the house and not gone onto campus I think it would have worked out really well. Also used
Zoho Projects as a way of sharing documents. This was more benificial but everything like this requires people to learn to use it. So whereas two of us what update version so there were only a couple files getting updated, the other member would upload each revision as a fresh. Easier for him than looking into the app but not using the kind of power available. Talking to the other member who at least made some effort she felt that it was too small a group to make really effective use given that a quick IM could update us on the latest information which is a fair point.

While I’m shooting off on tangents here’s another. I want to set myself up my own domain. I dont know how I want to approach blogging. I like finding out new things and setting stuff up to have a go. Hence this Tumblr blog when I haven’t updated Wordpress in a couple months. But maybe a Hosted Wordpress account would be more interesting and able. Or take a leaf out of Jennifr’s book and have a Tumblr subdomain as a Lifestream to a Wordpress account. I’ve been using Xona’s site to try and come up with some decent URLs. I’d love to have www.lu.ke but unfortunately Kenya aren’t selling .ke’s at the mo. Very disappointing. Then I got chatting with my ex and she Tweeted that she had, instead of a PA, a PG (Personal Geek) and that got me a-thinking. It’d be cool to set up a blog with absolute baby steps on how to set things up such as Twitter, Facebook, etc. Once the basics had been done I could move on to stuff that I’ve set using tutorials that weren’t very clear. But for that I need a good name and so the search continues.

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