Enemy of Entropy

School & More Reading

2 July 2008, 11:54 pm. Comments Off. Filed under College, Education, Reading.

Reg­is­tra­tion closes tomor­row, so I have to decide before the end of the day whether or not I’m tak­ing classes for sum­mer semes­ter or not. Bah. I want a break, but if I’m not in school my stu­dent loans come out of deferment.

I’ve been read­ing – and lov­ing–Patri­cia Briggs’ Mercy Thomp­son books. They’re a lot of fun, so I’m push­ing them at Sam, too.

Briggs has some amus­ing infor­ma­tion on her site about sil­ver bul­lets, includ­ing a reprint (with per­mis­sion, of course) of an old Gun World arti­cle, Long Ranger, Go Away!

Cohousing?

19 May 2008, 11:45 pm. 6 Comments. Filed under College, Education.

I’m work­ing on my final project for the tech­ni­cal writ­ing course, which is a com­par­i­son of cohous­ing devel­op­ments to single-​​family and more tra­di­tional multi-​​family hous­ing. I’m find­ing it dif­fi­cult to find any of the books I want to use as ref­er­ences in the library (school or two coun­ties). Do any of you who are local hap­pen to have books on the sub­ject? Copies of Com­mu­ni­ties mag­a­zine, maybe? I’d appre­ci­ate a chance to look at such things rather than need­ing to buy them via Amazon!

School Happy

18 May 2008, 11:55 pm. Comments Off. Filed under College, Education, Geekery, Writing.

I finally got the grades from the first tech­ni­cal writ­ing assign­ment I turned in last week, and the peer reviews I did on two of my class­mates’ rough drafts. I got full points for all of them!

I was wor­ried about one of the peer reviews, because the per­son chose to do a set of instruc­tions for start­ing to cross-​​stitch. I know too much about that topic to eval­u­ate it well from a beginner’s point of view, and that was the intended audi­ence. I actu­ally approached the pro­fes­sor with some ques­tions, and won­dered if I should swap reviews with some­one new to stitch­ing. Hap­pily, the pro­fes­sor said I pro­vided a bal­anced review that reflected my expe­ri­ences as a for­mer begin­ner and cur­rently expe­ri­enced stitcher, and that I was respect­ful through­out. I was try­ing very, very hard to avoid any hint of con­de­scen­sion, and it appears that it worked!

My topic was “Cre­at­ing Your First Pod­cast,” and that received full points, too. It had to be done with a Flesch–Kincaid Grade Level less than 8th grade, which was not easy. I got it down to 7th grade, and couldn’t go any lower. The pro­fes­sor said that was due to the tech­ni­cal terms I had to use, and was per­fectly acceptable.

Winter Semester Grades

8 March 2008, 6:32 pm. 1 Comment. Filed under College.

A week into Spring semes­ter, I finally got my Win­ter semes­ter grades: 99.7 in the career class, 97.6 in the project man­age­ment class. I should still have a 4.0, then.

I’ve got to get my and Katie’s FAF­SAs done. I should have already done it. It feels so weird to think about the fact that she’ll soon be in col­lege, too!

Never, Never on a Sunday

24 February 2008, 10:29 pm. Comments Off. Filed under College, Education, Family, Fun, Geekery, Movies.

Nope, not Sun­day. Mostly. Well, maybe some­times. Damned earworm!

I was try­ing to be Very, Very good today as I wrapped up my assign­ments for the semes­ter. Unfor­tu­nately, I got com­pletely dis­tracted by the fact that I hadn’t done a bloody thing with Pagan Par­ents since adopt­ing the site. I got it work­ing at a min­i­mal level, so it should be easy to add con­tent now.

Hint Hint: Con­tent! I need con­tent! Col­lab­o­ra­tors! Seri­ously, if you have opin­ions about par­ent­ing as a pagan, or you know of resources that I should link to, please let me know. If you know some­body who might want to write an arti­cle or blog with us there, have him or her con­tact me.
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