Constant Vigilance
06/05/2004 09:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
izmeinaThe Izzie chickens are slowly coming home to roost. Four assignment thingies due back this week and I've already seen two of them. One was happy with - the very first auditing weekly questionses that got collected. Got 4/5 which was infinitely better than the nasty stinking 14.5/25 for the big group assigment which took centuries, ruined the Izzie Easter break and left me dazed and braindead for days. Getting such a low mark is going to make it that much harder to keep an average of 70% for all three subjects this semester.
But there was some amusement to seeing a new face at our tutorial. One of the guys brought along his 12 year old daughter and she brought along her Potter (Goblet) and was busy reading it in class.
Our tutor then got to telling us about the movie trailer and how her kid is scared of the 'grim reaper' thingie in the train. Iz was only too delighted to assist her in remembering its name.
She also asked if anyone in the class apart from herself and this girl had read the books. Izzie grinned "me me" and seemed to be the only other adult there who had read them (or was at least not ashamed of admitting to such deviance in public)
After telling us all how fascinating the latest one was - particularly interesting being the conflict between good and evil and the bureaucracy in the middle - we finally got back to the boring bottom line. A most fascinating diversion - so thought Izzie.
(so it sort of made up for the nasty bit of getting the project back)
Was previously feeling a bit peeved about missing out on yesterdays' moonrise but it turned out to be cloudy after all. Did set the alarm clock for 3am on Wednesday morning and went outside for about 30 mins for a proper peek. But there was not that much to look at. Seemed rather like the new moon where you can sort of see the outline of the rest of it in shadows.
Went back to bed again and then got up intermittently - 4.30 and then just after five. By that stage it was bright yellow and looked like there had been a bit taken out of the bottom - far more what I'd expected to see than the previous haze.
Was so funny because the very first time seeing a lunar eclipse - did not know there was one and that was in July 2001 which was the very first time that Iz decided to go to watch a moonrise. Been hooked ever since.
Spent the evening around midnight sitting outside with a glass of red and wondering where in hell the full moon had got to as there was only an itsie teenie bit of it left. Was pretty peeved actually! We wants our cheeeese.
So - after this eclipse - it does happen so much less often but it is simply not as impressive so far as watching the moon rising on a crisp clear night when it starts as pinkish and then gradually changes colour. I don't think I will make too much of an effort to watch the next one that passes this way. But since they only happen at full moon, will most likely be watching anyway.
Now all that remains is that it does not rain on Thursday 3 June.
Last night after work -really did feel in the mood for an LJ squiggle - especially the "10 most formative books' meme which I'd first seen more than a month ago and have had all that time to think about. There was also lots of fascinating stuff on the radio - including an interview with Ismail Serageldin - the first head Librarian of the Alexandria Library for more than 1700 years. Amazing stuff. *Iz adds another update to the "Places to see before departing this mortal coil" list*
So Iz does the right thing - laundry and housework and watering the weeds and then a visit to the local netcafe. When you don't have your own computer - when the mood strikes to squiggle you are busy doing other stuff or cannot get one or have auditing assignments to do or whatever but when you do have the time - the inclination is just not there.
Well both were in alignment last night but the DNA cafe decided not to co-operate. This was the very evening that their server decided to go down.
(Turned out that the peculiar behaviour of the Goblin computers on Saturday was attributable to the antics of the evil Worm. This must be the first time that they've ever been got by such nasty creatures. Every other bug has been and gone and never once did Iz ever notice their effects in this place. But I guess it's a Windows /IE only zone so Iz should not be tempting hackers out there to 'bring it on')
Iz was peeved but no point in having a pity party - there is always the little green book or lying in bed listening to the celestial voice of Lisa Gerrard or of course - spotting the moon amongst the clouds.
So yet again those books get put on the long finger. By the time Iz does get around to posting will have gotten up to twenty or so. Iz was such a voracious little bookworm in her flobberworm days.
But there was some amusement to seeing a new face at our tutorial. One of the guys brought along his 12 year old daughter and she brought along her Potter (Goblet) and was busy reading it in class.
Our tutor then got to telling us about the movie trailer and how her kid is scared of the 'grim reaper' thingie in the train. Iz was only too delighted to assist her in remembering its name.
She also asked if anyone in the class apart from herself and this girl had read the books. Izzie grinned "me me" and seemed to be the only other adult there who had read them (or was at least not ashamed of admitting to such deviance in public)
After telling us all how fascinating the latest one was - particularly interesting being the conflict between good and evil and the bureaucracy in the middle - we finally got back to the boring bottom line. A most fascinating diversion - so thought Izzie.
(so it sort of made up for the nasty bit of getting the project back)
Was previously feeling a bit peeved about missing out on yesterdays' moonrise but it turned out to be cloudy after all. Did set the alarm clock for 3am on Wednesday morning and went outside for about 30 mins for a proper peek. But there was not that much to look at. Seemed rather like the new moon where you can sort of see the outline of the rest of it in shadows.
Went back to bed again and then got up intermittently - 4.30 and then just after five. By that stage it was bright yellow and looked like there had been a bit taken out of the bottom - far more what I'd expected to see than the previous haze.
Was so funny because the very first time seeing a lunar eclipse - did not know there was one and that was in July 2001 which was the very first time that Iz decided to go to watch a moonrise. Been hooked ever since.
Spent the evening around midnight sitting outside with a glass of red and wondering where in hell the full moon had got to as there was only an itsie teenie bit of it left. Was pretty peeved actually! We wants our cheeeese.
So - after this eclipse - it does happen so much less often but it is simply not as impressive so far as watching the moon rising on a crisp clear night when it starts as pinkish and then gradually changes colour. I don't think I will make too much of an effort to watch the next one that passes this way. But since they only happen at full moon, will most likely be watching anyway.
Now all that remains is that it does not rain on Thursday 3 June.
Last night after work -really did feel in the mood for an LJ squiggle - especially the "10 most formative books' meme which I'd first seen more than a month ago and have had all that time to think about. There was also lots of fascinating stuff on the radio - including an interview with Ismail Serageldin - the first head Librarian of the Alexandria Library for more than 1700 years. Amazing stuff. *Iz adds another update to the "Places to see before departing this mortal coil" list*
So Iz does the right thing - laundry and housework and watering the weeds and then a visit to the local netcafe. When you don't have your own computer - when the mood strikes to squiggle you are busy doing other stuff or cannot get one or have auditing assignments to do or whatever but when you do have the time - the inclination is just not there.
Well both were in alignment last night but the DNA cafe decided not to co-operate. This was the very evening that their server decided to go down.
(Turned out that the peculiar behaviour of the Goblin computers on Saturday was attributable to the antics of the evil Worm. This must be the first time that they've ever been got by such nasty creatures. Every other bug has been and gone and never once did Iz ever notice their effects in this place. But I guess it's a Windows /IE only zone so Iz should not be tempting hackers out there to 'bring it on')
Iz was peeved but no point in having a pity party - there is always the little green book or lying in bed listening to the celestial voice of Lisa Gerrard or of course - spotting the moon amongst the clouds.
So yet again those books get put on the long finger. By the time Iz does get around to posting will have gotten up to twenty or so. Iz was such a voracious little bookworm in her flobberworm days.
