Serpentine meanderings

Izzie is just indulging in a fit of procrastination and tweeking. Still undecided about whether to use the Component or Green Opal layout.
Just been lurking with the nasty online Orkseses and found some most interesting links. Unfortunately this latest addition to the Izzie Portkeys is totally over the top with whizzz bang annoying "Look at me!" graphics and stuff.
Is now time to slink off for some afternoon adventures. I have decided to be a good serpent and walk instead of getting the bus to one of those free wine tastings which is not too far from the Min at all. After that - it's back to the keyboard to get a head start on next week's assignments.
The rest of the Izzie chooks have returned to the nest and there have been some pleasant surprises. Looks like I'm still safely above the 70% course average after all.
Will be back later this evening for the usual indulgence of that bad habit of procrastination.

The Evil Green Genie in the Bottle

Cheers!

Goblin snippets

Izzie has been a good goblin today. Already done two of the five auditing questionses for this week so figures that it's time for a bit of surfing in Cyberia.
Been a pretty good week indeed.

On Wednesday the Iz got to do the first weekly online test for the business law component for one of our more interesting units. These folks are literally throwing marks away. But some students are stupid and thought they were too smart to bother with the practice test only to discover that they got a score of zero out of ten. For some strange reason these silly online tests insist that you must save each answer as you go along instead of doing it at the end like most usual online tests. I mean - the teacher mentioned it, the instructions for the test mentioned it and it's there in black and white in the unit outline with a big warning sign - but some folks still did not see it.
It's particularly painful when it's an open book test. But Iz did her own act of silliness. Did not print out or even read the relevant chapters for that week and got a 7/10 when with a little more effort a 9 should have not been beyond reach. But still - for 6 minutes work (We are allowed 20 minutes but Iz finished in 6) it is a ridiculously high return on investment. Especially when Iz thinks of the outrageously ridiculous quantities of time required for that nasty stinking auditing project to get a pissie little 14.5/25

Last week was so so peeved about having the other assignment collected that I had done in a mad rush 30 mins before class started. Was grumpy and frumpy for the rest of the day thinking that it was a definite 5/10 for having done so little in comparison to the 3-5 pages that other folks handed in. Got it back today and nearly fell off my chair in shock at getting a 9/10.
Iz seen other folks looking most glum indeed and saying that they had spent hours and hours and wrote pages and pages etc and the tutor replied - well that does not matter because the answers were wrong so such and such is all I can give you.

I guess sometimes being an old fart has its advantages. You are less likely to be slavishly copying down stuff word for word and you got more hooks to hang new concepts from. And most importantly - you become less afraid of speaking out and making mistakes for fear of looking stupid.

So after all the Izzie chickens had come home to roost and only one was found to be wanting - Iz figured that it was time for the afternoon coffee crawl and decadent indulgence of wine tasting. And damned good it was too. Oodles of rich thick inky reds and some nice nibblies and all free. And best of all - used to catch two buses there and back but came up with the idea of looking at the map. The bottle shop turns out to be only a 30 minute walk away from the Min.
Iz was thinking of Aci who would have just loved to be lurking there with all those decadent reds including a most peculiar but very nice Shiraz Viognier with the most peculiar name of "Starvedog Lane" from the Barossa Valley.
Next week there will be more of the same but no big fat inky reds from Coonawarra or the Clare Valley. It will all be snotty yuppie Margaret River stuff. But it's free so Iz ain't complaining.
The bottle shop even had a few specimens of Absinthe. Pity they never offer that stuff for tasting. Iz is ever so curious.

A Toast to the Izzie friends

Gobble Gobble. Lots of tasty bottlies for the Cheetah to drool over and drown his fishies in
Cheers!