Hehe – I haven’t even gotten my mark yet.
Hello everyone in SIT161
I have been thinking about Assignment 2 assessment, and have also discussed it with several students (*coughjustincough*) and other lecturers.
I have decided that because the assessment was not written clearly enough for first year students, and so many students misunderstood the requirements, I will be adjusting the grades upwards.
This will be reflected in the grades in DSO in the next few days.
Regards,
I am perhaps quite stupidly sitting online this time of night for no great reason. I’m not sure what to write.
Something maybe about the random lady I saw marching along the footpath in true soldier form at about 9:00 this morning, curiously absurd.
I did catch the train to uni todya, I forget how much I actually like early morning train rides (when it’s not freezing cold). With some blue sky and some sun it’s insanely enjoyable, although it’s probably just me. I have had some of the most ‘content’ times sitting on trains. It’s really quite strange.
I read some of Perspectives after considering Running with Scissors (yeah hi to the freak who takes two books so she can choose) and deciding it would ruin the cheerful mood. It was joyfully (NB sarcasm) something about relationships, yes, in ‘that’ way, but I actually had quite a reasonable talk to God about some stuff and am pretty cool and unbothered with it all at the moment. To be honest if people keep bringing it (relationships of ‘that’ variety) up like they have the past few months I think I’ll have to start telling them to… shutup? I’m a little bit over it. Not as such to wear the single crown like _ is at the moment, but enough to have thought things over and done it to death… at least for now.
Short stint at uni, went to the one tute, handed in the assignment, started on the next one (group one). Heard a collective joint moan from Justin, Jen and co about the last assignment and marks (the one of mine that hasn’t been marked yet… at least she managed to locate it!) I understand why they complain, but sometimes you should just draw the line. Yes it wasn’t clear. Yes you got a lower mark than you wanted. What’s done is done. (Please make no reference to the blog title).
Home via Box Hill where I succumbed to chips and gravy. I refused any salt, which suposedly isn’t so good for you – but somehow think the gravy kind of stuffed that up… the chips too come to think of it.
Got home, stuffed around online for a bit. Lay down on my bed for a moment and woke up an hour later, I got up for maybe five or ten minutes but for the life of me I’m not sure what I did, but I lay back down and managed another half hour. I rarely sleep during the day, but I think I needed it.
Afternoon tea with the lovely Samantha up at Morrisons. It was her phone call that woke me up. I sat at the top of the road waiting for her to come on the bus and after about Bus no.6 (school time) I called her and she happened to be in the cafe already – great communication Rebecca. Another nice prolonged sit in the sun on a stump (rather than in the bus shelter).
A latte and half a piece of jaffa cake later – we try to get something different every time, well nothing much really…
Young Adults tonight. I was there first, for once early to something. I really hate being late to things but (oh stuff it I’m going to use the word lately) lately the ‘late thing’ has been happening, was good to break the trend.
We ended up doing a Spiritual gifts test thing, to I guess understand a little of where each of us is coming from (big lot of people there tonight) and to continue the conversation around spiritual gifts. Yes we do all know that they can’t really tell you that much.
I blahed out Wisdom up the top, followed by an equal score in: Admin, Knowledge, Faith. Not too surprised – a little about the faith thing perhaps.
Celebacy was on there. Hehe. No I didn’t score too highly there, surprisingly _ and _ did… or not so surprisingly. Interesting some of the questions were (let me slip into yoda speech) in light of what I was thinking about this morning.
The customary drive up the road to Macca’s. And the rest is history. And I should really really be asleep considering I’m still “sick” and can tell it.
So this thing is going around:
Leave your name and
1. I’ll respond with something I like about you.
2. I’ll tell you what song or movie reminds me of you.
3. I’ll ask you a question.
4. I’ll tell you my first/clearest memory of you.
5. I’ll say something that only makes sense to you and me.
6. I’ll describe our final fight to the death.
7. If I do this for you, you must post this on your journal.
Tony says:
1. I love the way that when something is put before you that you really work for the answer. You really want to understand whats happening and therefore i always lookward to hearing anything you have to say.
2. Matilda (Why?)
3. What is a positive about being single, or therefore a negative about a coupled lifestyle. (Less other people hassles, you can be as selfish as you like :P)
4. It not my first, but it is my clearest. It was in Jan when i was at the Witteveen house hold and so were you, and we had a lovely conversation and they shared their dinner with us. The first would proably be hearing about you from April or Sammy early in 05 and seeing some photos.
5. 3 people count?mmm Question 26?
6. Not sure what will be here, but it could probably be a doctrinal or relationship based conversation where the floor is split, but you will go to bed, coz it will be well after 12 already :P.
7. Now i get to put my name on yours 😀
Sam says:
1. Only one? I like how you tell the truth, even when sometimes its hard. I like your laughter, your honesty, and yes, sometimes even your bluntness.
2. Garden State
3. What are you doing thursday? (Homework and I might grab afternoon tea with that friend of mine that lives up the road 😉
4. Not the first, but one of the early ones. centre trip, waking you up and you telling me to go away, and you later apologising for that. it makes me chuckle every now and then 😛
5. err… ha ha! i have it! something talked about over chai tea, in a crowded local cafe ;)…
6. would there be one?
7. You have to put this on your blog now. this is strike 2… 😛
Hannah says:
1. your good moods… and when you can be bothered conversing nicely/properly
2. Sabrina because of your strange love affair with it.
3. how do you see me, not as a sister, but as a person? What don’t you know about me?
4. playing a game in Auki with magazines and paper dolls
5. weirdest way you ever met someone.
6. I’ll kill you quickly and make you into a pie…which i will then feed to the family. If you got me first, you’d attempt cookies. Don’t try it.
7. If I do this for you, you must post this on your journal.
I overslept this morning – not so much as to be a problem, but I happened to leave my wallet and phone at home.
By mid morning I worked out it was really not a good day to choose to leave the student card at home. I have an assignment due tomorrow that requires a short video component. I stupidly left it until today to borrow the equipment from the Library. You happen to need your student card for such loans.
I managed to work out a way around it by getting the camera and drivers under Jess’s name, after waiting around until 3pm when she showed – and then had to track down Adrian to get him to sign a permission form (how school).
So I have the equipment. I get it back down to the Studio and realise that I’d forgotten I’d need a memory card (don’t have one) the super intelligence in my brain forgot such things as a dv tape. Adrian points out my oversight – now I have an alternative, but no tape and no money to get one.
Adrian (who’s Studio tutor) lends me some money 😮 and I head on up to the DUSA store. There I find a tape. $12. The girl asks me how my day has been. Not so good, I briefly mention leaving phone/money home. She goes, “Oh you’ll get home and have all these messages!” (mildly horrified) – Can you give a rueful smile mentally? Messages – hahahha the phone is the least of my worries. I’m lucky if I get one a day.
Back to the Studio. I take a few minutes of random footage of pretty much nothing. Adrian leaves, I’m again the only one around.
I plug the camera in first on the PC I am logged into. Nothing. I put the cd with the drivers in, the computer wants admin acess before it’ll let me do anything. Like that’ll happen. I try various other means – zip.
I try it in a MAC. It doesn’t even have enough guts to recognise the CD. I restart. Nothing. I try another Mac, both firewire and the USB. At least this time it recognises the CD. I open the stupid instruction book (after trying everything) and follow it, copy driver files to where they should be. Nothing. I restart. Nothing.
And here I am after having sent a ‘this is what’s happened’ email to my tutor – which may or may not go down well.
I am very over it. I am very annoyed I spent $12 on a tape that to me is practically useless. I am very annoyed I have to sit here almost another hour waiting for Jess because every other little bit of homework that needs to be done tonight is at home.
My mouth has had that, “You still are sick” strange taste to it all day.
I am really very glad this day is almost over.
I’m not one to get sick very often – although this year has already proved an exception to that. My throat is still sore although did disappear for a while. And to the people who think lemon and honey drinks solve the worlds problems (there have been several of you) – they don’t. I actually couldn’t think of much worse. I could bore you with the ins and outs of feeling pathetic but it wouldn’t do you much good.
I procrastinated all day. I slept for a sad short half an hour when I should’ve tried for more. I read a chapter or two of Perspectives and another fat wad of Running With Scissors unitl it started getting even more well, crude so I decided to give it rest. Its a pity so many memoirs have this exceedingly dark edge to them. It’s a different crude than A Million Little Pieces and a tad more along the lines of A Monk Swimming – no, different still. They are making a movie of it apparently, the censorship ratings if they follow the book’s detail are going to be through the roof. Sometimes I wonder why I draw the line far more loosely at books than I do with movies.
I felt a fair bit better after dinner, an interesting (alibet cheery) email (probably more to the fact that I was bemoaning that I never get enough emails – oh yes, self absorption was high on the agenda today) and a bath.
I mustered up the collective pits of procrastinaton and piled them ontop of one another and wrote my assignment proposal (or at least a semblance of one) in about 10 minutes. Which in actuallity should have me fuming that it cause so much heart (I mean mind) ache in consuming my day.
Things look vaguely more achievable now.
I like the book of Hebrews and was reading randomly from there tonight. The end of Chapter 12 has something I haven’t quite noticed before.
25See to it that you do not refuse him who speaks. If they did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, how much less will we, if we turn away from him who warns us from heaven? 26At that time his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised, “Once more I will shake not only the earth but also the heavens.”27The words “once more” indicate the removing of what can be shaken—that is, created things—so that what cannot be shaken may remain.
28Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe, 29for our “God is a consuming fire.”
However much relevance it has to me I’m not sure, but what I want to know is, ‘what is it that cannot be shaken?’, what is going to remain?
Wow, wake up ignoramus… I read v.28 just then. So it seems it’s the kingdom (Kingdom of God?) that cannot be shaken.
This pulls me back again to that long wonderful semester last year of trying to define the KOG… The problem is, I now forget exactly all the things we came up with. I need to go over things.
Regardless of what exactly it is, this is pretty much saying you can’t beat it, it’s lasting. So shouldn’t we all the more work to play our part in bring it about? And yet, it says we are recieving it. We talk about the Kingdom of God being here, but not yet here. I forget (unfortunately where it talks about what part we get to play – unless thats just a derived set of conclusions from a number of texts.)
“Let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe, for our “God is a consuming fire.”
Despite perhaps the ‘play your part as a good little Christian’ in bringing the KOG about, God’s going to do this stuff regardless of our effort (not saying we can be ‘lazy buggers’). So the important response? We should really be living thus: ‘thankful and worshiping God…’ A mandate for the Christian life perhaps?
Now what would that look like in practice?!
My head’s all over the place right now, but if you ever happen to run out of things to be thankful for (and I was getting that way today mulling my black mood of, ‘what am I doing with my life/sick blah/pointless pointless’) here it is.
We’re living in something that can’t be shaken (or at least all the bad bits will be shaken out) and there is still more good to come.
*disclaimer/appology for feeding you any shonky theology – afterall, “work out your salvation with fear and trembling” not someone else’s salvation for them with fear and trembling.
and that’ll be enough to send the she with touch of sarcam, wandering theology and the still sore throat to bed.