the dojo has a new look for now too. dave set up some new add-ons on wordpress and one of them happens to be a nifty drag and drop theme thingy. so now i can change my themes on a whim. not that i feel very whimsical at the best of times… it’ll do for now.
things are starting to get pretty hectic. i’ve signed on to do an ict pedagogical license, which basically just means that i’m able to use ict within the classroom and make it align with the outcomes set out in the department’s essential learnings. there is a pretty heavy set of criteria for passing this thing, but i think the unit of work i’m doing will give me a good chance of getting through it. now my every waking moment is going to be used up trying to sort this shit out. it’s only done this term. my first teleconference will be done tomorrow. oh joy!
inyoung spent this weekend with her friend down at the gold coast, leaving me to my own devices. that was her first mistake. i spent saturday lazing around, playing nhl, goffing off and eating donuts by the half-dozen. i also spent some time chatting to dave, then headed into the city. i bought a electronic tuner for my ukulele. yes, i have a ukulele. i don’t know squat about music but with four strings and some practice or some shit, i might be able to become useless, rather than clueless. we’ll see how it goes. i’ll post some shots when i get time.
for the last few days, the server has been having a spack attack. that basically means i could not write about all the nothing i’ve been doing for the last few days. oh well. dave has been talking about relocating servers again. finding something more stable. i’d tend to agree. 60 hours of downtime is just way too long and stupid.
i’m not usually one for personality tests and such but this one was pretty cool in its construction. they used these slide bars and 4-axis graphs and buckets… all flair no content type stuff. anyway, the results are in and they are quite… puzzling. i have low masculinity and low femininity. how does that work? i must be quite androgynous. oh well….
inyoung and i went to visit her friend at the gold coast yesterday. her friend happens to be married with a nine-month old kid. this kid also happens to have a cold. who did the kid like to play with all bloody afternoon? me! so now i got a frickin cold. pain in the arse… throat to be exact. and nose and head… awesome. and by awesome i mean shit
i celebrated the end of semester with a bit of a splurge on friday. i met inyoung in the city for lunch, followed by shopping. big w have been having a huge end of financial year sale, so i got myself an xbox 360. it’s only an arcade edition, which means there’s no hard-drive and it doesn’t come pimped out. but that’s cool cos i only want it for games and i don’t plan on using it online. it also came with five free games(pac-man, uno and some other shit i haven’t bothered checking out), which is also neat. i did buy some other sweet, yet cheap games too: assassin’s creed, fifa 07 and nhl 08. that should keep me busy for a while.
australia has been given no favours after the draw for the second round of qualifying for the world cup. they have drawn heavyweights, japan, old foes in qatar and tricky away missions to bahrain and uzhbekistan. the campaign starts in teshkent in spetember, the aussies hoping to get off to a good start. it’s going to be long and arduous but hopefully, we’ll make it through.
inyoung and i spent some quality time yesterday watching the new movie, mongol. as a movie, it’s pretty good. fantastic cinematography, great cast and excellent plot. however, having read wolf of the plains, i was keen to see more of temujin’s struggle to survive growing up, which is part of the mystique and the myth of the man/khan he went on to become. the lack of continuity did frustrate me at times. for example, WARNING: SPOILER ALERT!! when he’s escaping from a rival tribe, they shoot him in the back with an arrow. he struggles on, gets home, mum and sibling run out. “oh no! my son has been shot!” cut to the next scene, he’s ok and back to full health! wtf??
it’s interesting reading the notes on the website. the director was talking about casting temujin and how he initially thought that some people might have been put off by a japanese actor playing the lead role. but as it turns out, most north east asian countries actually claim that temujin/genghis khan is actually one of their own. be it mongolia, korea or japan. they all lay claim. weird, yet kind of understandable. i’d want to claim a man who took over half the known world to be one of mine too. maybe he’s part aussie?
