2 x 65% = 130%

Having to be ready by 9am is actually painful.  Physically painful.  But I managed it.  Didn't understand anything in either of my lectures though so I'd have learned just as much if I'd stayed in bed all day.  I feel guilty if I miss lectures though and they are kind of the point in being at university so it's generally better that I don't miss too many in a week. 

After my second lecture with Michael McIntyre Martin Lindsay I was asked by the man himself to stay behind with all the other people who were unfortunate enough to be sat at the end of a row while he asked us some questions about how we're finding the course and if he could make any improvements to his teaching style, or if we needed to spend more time on certain ideas to make sure we understood them fully, or anything else along those lines.  The group seemed fairly reluctant to speak to him.  There's just something about lecturers that makes us not want to talk to them directly.  Especially if they have a nose which is this shade of purple.  A terror comes across us and we fully expect to make a Freudian slip and make a reference to the sheer brightness of the nose. 

In the two hours before my workshop I started a draft for my fictional blog, The Stones of Arzingdale, and came up with a much better first post than I had done originally.  It made so much more sense and didn't start it all off in some silly way that felt typical of something a 10 year old would write in primary school English lessons. I only got about half way through before I had to leave for the workshop but I was still very pleased that I have found a way to start it off that makes sense in the context of the world it is set in.  There is also an excuse for the character to be keeping a diary so I don't have to have that question looming over me.  Good times. 

Post-workshop Adam and I went to collect the portfolio for our Universe as an Art project that we have been working on this term only to find that it had the lowest mark in the class and half the pages were missing.  Our tutor clearly hadn't looked where he was supposed to to find our contributions and had marked it based on what was there.  We want a remark.  Hopefully we'll get one.  If not then we wasted about two hours working on it and we'll be angry.  Adam might even punch someone. 
Having  said that, we did get 65% after only handing half the work in.  If we do get a remark and the missing half is as good as the 65% bit we'll be on 130%! 

No film tonight because we aren't fussed about seeing Paranormal Activity.  Instead I continued the draft of the first post in Stones while Liz used her über art skills to draw pictures of places mentioned in it.  Happy with my work, I typed it up and published it.  Yay!
I'll aim for two posts per week on there and hopefully they will all have at least one picture with them to give a little more idea what the areas visited are like without filling the text with descriptions of scenery that wouldn't realistically be written in a diary.