I'm avoiding an assignment.
It's only the second one of the year and I'm already sick of doing them! Actually that's not entirely true. I'm liking getting to think again, it's just a bit tricky trying to do something that I don't really know anything about. I'm supposed to be critiquing a journal article, and I've done the easy parts, and one of the hard parts. There's one hard part to go, but it's just hard when there's no direction to follow. I suppose I should have done the sensible thing and asked Alastair to read over my draft today, but he'd already read so many people's and I felt bad making him stay behind longer. Plus I hate having people read my work, especially when I'm sitting right next to them. It's fairly daunting! I think everyone's in the same boat though (would wanna be a big boat!!), which always makes me feel better. Oh well, I only have to write about 350 more words, and it can't be that hard to think of problems/gaps in the article!
In other news, the end of next week is Easter and the 4 day break! Which is doubly awesome because I have two more weeks off after that. Well, only one really, because the other is when we go on our field trip to Beechworth and the wine regions. That should be fun fun fun. And i'm hoping that the government aren't being sneaky when they say that the stimulus money is being delivered next monday. I can't wait to finally be able to buy something for myself that doesn't consist of food or petrol. Because that's about all I've been getting myself lately... Okay, occasionally there might be a random bit of chocolate in there somewhere, or some ice cream, but they aren't anything substantial and I want new things, dammit!! Plus I want to buy someone else some things! Birthday soon, anyone? Oh yes! That's going to be lots of fun, I've got a few cool ideas, although I'm cutting it fine, April totally sprang up on us! Pretty soon it'll be winter and I'll be thinking about skiing and snow and mountains and scarves and snuggling and the like. Why do lots of good things start with the letter S?
Snow.
Sand.
Sun.
Sea.
Snuggles.
Skiing.
Snowmen.
Snowballs (okay so i'm cheating with using the same word... but I say it still counts).
Spas.
Singing.
Summer.
Spring.
Stop this train.
Spongebob...
Haha okay I'll stop now.
I think my problem is that I can't really do any constructive work at night time... unless it's due the next day. There's just too many distractions around that I let myself be distracted by. Like someone's watching TV, so i'll just go out and have a little look, or i'll decide my ipod needs charging, and spend a while making a new playlist on iTunes, or I'll find facebook, or decide I can write much more on a blog, or i'll pretend to get hungry and i'll go and find some stupid food to eat, and figure that while I'm eating, I might as well watch the latest How I Met Your Mother. Then, before I know it, it's 9.30pm and I'm getting sleepy and all hopes of getting anything proper written is gone, because, of course, it'll be time for a shower, and then i'll be all snuggly and warm and just decide to hop into bed for an early night, and then repeat the whole process over again the next night! My only hope is to get the work done on Thursdays and Fridays, preferably in the morning, because I seem to be at my most workable then.
And so now, without even breaking a sweat (not that I do when I type normally, it's just a figure of speech), I've written double the amount here that I need to write to finish off this assignment!
It's ludicrous. And I will never change.
Nighty night!
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
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Wednesday, March 18, 2009
TEX
So we've been asked to write informal journals of some sort, for one of the new units at uni - The Tourism Experience. It's not going to be read by anyone at the uni, but basically I think it's just for our own sake, to record our thought processes, and any important themes or issues we may have picked up on in the seminars.
I really liked today's one. It was on the anthropology of tourism, though I think anthropology in general really interests me... For anyone who doesn't know, anthropology literally means the study of mankind. Basically it's all about why people do the things they do, what motivates and influences their decisions etc. It's fascinating how there can be so many areas to study on the one person or people, and how in-depth anthropologists go just to find out a tiny detail that can help them understand the human race.
Some of the key issues today that we were asked to think about included the difference between a tourist and a traveller, as well as the difference between tourism and travel.
The way I thought of it was that a tourist generally wants to see one or two main sites or destinations when they journey somewhere, while a traveller wants to see everything along the way, and will keep travelling indefinitely. Someone else said that tourism is seen as the mass form of people moving from place to place, while travellers are more likely to be adventure seekers, and will want to visit places more 'off the beaten track'; likely to travel alone or in small groups, rather than sticking with the mass crowds that generate tourism. It's sort of hard to express what I'm thinking of in actual words, but I suppose I'd better get used to at least trying to do it effectively!
The first assessment task for the masters course is due on Monday. It's already so different, with the amount of reading needed to be done before even starting to search for information relevant to the actual topic. It's also very much left to us to sort of make our own judgement on a lot of things, which scares me a little as I generally need a bit of guidance to help me on my way. But it's something else to learn, I guess.
I'm not sure if this is what Gary wanted when he said to keep a journal, but it'll do for now. I probably will appreciate that I've done this, at the end of the year, so I can look back and see how far I've come (if I last the whole time, that is!)
And now, off to bed.
I really liked today's one. It was on the anthropology of tourism, though I think anthropology in general really interests me... For anyone who doesn't know, anthropology literally means the study of mankind. Basically it's all about why people do the things they do, what motivates and influences their decisions etc. It's fascinating how there can be so many areas to study on the one person or people, and how in-depth anthropologists go just to find out a tiny detail that can help them understand the human race.
Some of the key issues today that we were asked to think about included the difference between a tourist and a traveller, as well as the difference between tourism and travel.
The way I thought of it was that a tourist generally wants to see one or two main sites or destinations when they journey somewhere, while a traveller wants to see everything along the way, and will keep travelling indefinitely. Someone else said that tourism is seen as the mass form of people moving from place to place, while travellers are more likely to be adventure seekers, and will want to visit places more 'off the beaten track'; likely to travel alone or in small groups, rather than sticking with the mass crowds that generate tourism. It's sort of hard to express what I'm thinking of in actual words, but I suppose I'd better get used to at least trying to do it effectively!
The first assessment task for the masters course is due on Monday. It's already so different, with the amount of reading needed to be done before even starting to search for information relevant to the actual topic. It's also very much left to us to sort of make our own judgement on a lot of things, which scares me a little as I generally need a bit of guidance to help me on my way. But it's something else to learn, I guess.
I'm not sure if this is what Gary wanted when he said to keep a journal, but it'll do for now. I probably will appreciate that I've done this, at the end of the year, so I can look back and see how far I've come (if I last the whole time, that is!)
And now, off to bed.
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Mmmm
I love Sara Lee's 'Rocky Road Overload' ice cream. I think it may even be my favourite ice cream ever. And I've had a lot of ice cream in my time. The best part is the raspberry swirls that you occasionally come across... They're so rare, but I think that's why they're the best part, because you never know when you'll get a tiny hit of it!
Wow, I just realised that this thing saves itself as it goes along... Now that's handy. Too many times have I written something hugely long, like an email on facebook, only to accidentally press the back button somehow, before posting it and losing the entire thing. And we all know that the second attempt (if you can even be bothered writing again) is never quite as funny or brilliant as the first.
So here I am, writing a blog again. In no way is this a medium to get back at anyone, and I'm not even really copying anything that might already exist, because I've really always wanted to get back into blog writing. I think I'll use this as a way of documenting the year, since it's rather important, as opposed to writing in a diary or something. Plus I figure if I don't post the link anywhere, then it's pretty much like writing in a diary anyway, as no one will know it exists! Well, maybe someone. But that's only because I'll show him.
I've always said it, but I like typing. I especially like typing in this little text box, the default font is lovely. Hehe... lovely. Well, I can tell that I'm going to be good friends with this outlet, and I hope I have time to contribute effectively over the next few months. It's going to be full-on, that's for sure. We even used some coloured pencils and did some drawings in one of our classes today! Who's ever heard of doing colouring during a masters unit?! It was fun though. Tomorrow is the class I think I'm most looking forward to. It's going to be really hard, mostly because of the standard the lecturers expect from us, but I hope that the content is interesting enough to keep me excited about trying that little bit harder. I want to be good at something, and I hope I don't let myself down.
Anyway, must hit the hay... Getting up before 8 is tricky when I've been on holidays for the past 4 months, and used to sleeping in til at least 10! But I'm glad I get to do something with my days again, and am looking forward to the routine.
Good to meet you, Mr. Blog. I think we can be great buddies.
Til next time... xox
Wow, I just realised that this thing saves itself as it goes along... Now that's handy. Too many times have I written something hugely long, like an email on facebook, only to accidentally press the back button somehow, before posting it and losing the entire thing. And we all know that the second attempt (if you can even be bothered writing again) is never quite as funny or brilliant as the first.
So here I am, writing a blog again. In no way is this a medium to get back at anyone, and I'm not even really copying anything that might already exist, because I've really always wanted to get back into blog writing. I think I'll use this as a way of documenting the year, since it's rather important, as opposed to writing in a diary or something. Plus I figure if I don't post the link anywhere, then it's pretty much like writing in a diary anyway, as no one will know it exists! Well, maybe someone. But that's only because I'll show him.
I've always said it, but I like typing. I especially like typing in this little text box, the default font is lovely. Hehe... lovely. Well, I can tell that I'm going to be good friends with this outlet, and I hope I have time to contribute effectively over the next few months. It's going to be full-on, that's for sure. We even used some coloured pencils and did some drawings in one of our classes today! Who's ever heard of doing colouring during a masters unit?! It was fun though. Tomorrow is the class I think I'm most looking forward to. It's going to be really hard, mostly because of the standard the lecturers expect from us, but I hope that the content is interesting enough to keep me excited about trying that little bit harder. I want to be good at something, and I hope I don't let myself down.
Anyway, must hit the hay... Getting up before 8 is tricky when I've been on holidays for the past 4 months, and used to sleeping in til at least 10! But I'm glad I get to do something with my days again, and am looking forward to the routine.
Good to meet you, Mr. Blog. I think we can be great buddies.
Til next time... xox
Thursday, March 5, 2009
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