Hey!
I just felt like typing something right now. I haven't exactly been on top of my stuff for this past week. Last Saturday we had a kind of collective birthday/cocktail party. It was very icy outside and I was wearing Converse (smart, I know) and walking really carefully. Then on one of the few areas where there was no ice aka on some stairs to the subway, I stepped sideways on my ankle and something snapped. We were headed out and I - obviously - didn't stop to do anything about it until about 4 hours later when we got back home. By then I had a fist-sized bruise on the outside of my ankle and it was swollen to about twice the normal width.
I tend to get quite a lot of minor ankle injuries because of the 6 years of track and field I did a while back. I snapped tendons left and right - which means that while I might be more likely to injure myself on the ankles, the injuries will rarely result in torn ligaments or tendons because they're stretched from before. But yeah, I've been wearing a support bandage on the bad ankle for most of last week. Then on Tuesday I noticed I'd caught a cold, so I've been doubly indisposed. Ugh.
Luckily this week was kind of our unofficial winter holiday - we don't actually get one at Uni levels of education, except for Christmas - so I didn't have to try to internalise new information at school except for about 2 hours on Wednesday, ha. Also I don't have a lot to do when it comes to our current group assignments so all I'll have to do is take care of an old, overdue thing that's just my own.
I started watching The 100 on Netflix yesterday evening, and I'm about half an hour away from the end of season 1. Thank Jeebus I can continue to the second season my loyal streaming site, and I don't have to wait for months until it appears on Netflix... Eh. I'll get over my slight moral aversion to watching series illegally at some point I guess. Next plan is to watch Agent Carter on Hulu, maybe, because I believe certain TV networks also count Hulu views as legitimate views on shows that I couldn't legitimately watch yet. Eh.
I'm also going to get the Fifty shades series into my hands, so I can make sure my arguments about Christian Grey & Anastasia Steele's abuser/victim relationship are legitimate. Don't get me wrong now, BDSM is a-ok to me (I also like reading fiction that includes elements of it, except I have some criteria when it comes to quality and character archetypes) but Fifty shades is just abuse cloaked as responsible BDSM practice and even romance, for fuck's sake. Whatever, there are plenty of reasonable sources who take apart the entire series for it's horrendous misrepresentation of BDSM not to mention romanticising and idealising a toxic relationship that seems to mirror, for a majority of the time, very closely what an emotionally manipulative abuser does to their victim. Seriously, it's so cringe-worthy. I feel bad. But I'm still going to read them so that any of my arguments can't be "refuted" (in the defenders' minds) as ill-informed. Again, as with any other problematic media, I'm not telling anyone to boycott anything they enjoy - go see the movie, buy the books, whatever floats your goat.
What I want is a media-critical stance where consumers a. are informed enough to recognise problems when they see them or b. they are suspicious enough to do research about things they are interested in. Boo-hoo, it's harder to enjoy things that way. But it's also the only way to be an actually responsible media consumer.
Anyway, that's enough ranting for now, seriously. I'm going to go back to watching the season 1 finale of The 100.
Bye!
Saturday, 14 February 2015
Tuesday, 3 February 2015
#61
Oh my god, I am so caught up on my ish, you wouldn't believe.
Only one assignment left, and that one I just have to improve it a bit by actually sourcing things. Ay.
Also I finished reading the Finlandia Literary Prize -winning novel of 2014, and it was really good. The three main characters all had distinctive, realistic narratives and the plot development was great in my opinion. If you can read Finnish, I definitely recommend it! He eivät tiedä mitä tekevät by Jussi Valtonen. Ugh. Really good though. I've read two Finnish novels in a row this month, it must be a record. Ha. But now I'm starting Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn, so there goes that streak.
Our lectures were kind of irritating and mind-blowingly dull today. We have to write a communication plan and some kind of article-like piece and actually try to get it published in some local newspaper - because our Uni of AS is funded based on published works. So they make us write up articles 90% of us don't have a relevant subject to work on for, just in case it'll improve the funding. Great academic goals they're setting, huh? Oh well, that must kind of be the reality of difficult economic situations, I guess.
I started actually playing AC:Pirates on my iPad. The writing is atrocious (as was to be expected, it's not like it's and actual AC game) but the character design is pretty nice, and I love the gameplay where you get to sail your ship around. All in all, I think it's a pretty good tablet / mobile gaming format, and the graphics you can run on tablets and smartphones surprise me positively sometimes.
Right now basically the only reason I'm writing a post is that both my tablet and phone had software updates available, so I'm waiting for those to finish downloading and installing. We'll see if the phone update makes all my keyboard shortcuts disappear again, like they've done with all past updates since iOS 8. FYI: If you have this same problem with keyboard shortcuts (the list) disappearing from your Settings > General > Keyboards > Shortcuts, try turning Predictive keyboards off and on again. It seems to work for me. Some people have also reported that the problem of the shortcuts remaining in the phone as a list but not showing up when you type can be sorted out with the same solution. Of course, all of this information and various other possible solutions can be found on the Apple discussion forums but I thought I'd share it here in case someone else is struggling with this.
I'm sorry I keep talking about how "well" I'm doing at school right now, I'm just really proud of myself. Also, in case someone is interested, I added all of my social medias into my profile.
Bye!
Only one assignment left, and that one I just have to improve it a bit by actually sourcing things. Ay.
Also I finished reading the Finlandia Literary Prize -winning novel of 2014, and it was really good. The three main characters all had distinctive, realistic narratives and the plot development was great in my opinion. If you can read Finnish, I definitely recommend it! He eivät tiedä mitä tekevät by Jussi Valtonen. Ugh. Really good though. I've read two Finnish novels in a row this month, it must be a record. Ha. But now I'm starting Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn, so there goes that streak.
Our lectures were kind of irritating and mind-blowingly dull today. We have to write a communication plan and some kind of article-like piece and actually try to get it published in some local newspaper - because our Uni of AS is funded based on published works. So they make us write up articles 90% of us don't have a relevant subject to work on for, just in case it'll improve the funding. Great academic goals they're setting, huh? Oh well, that must kind of be the reality of difficult economic situations, I guess.
I started actually playing AC:Pirates on my iPad. The writing is atrocious (as was to be expected, it's not like it's and actual AC game) but the character design is pretty nice, and I love the gameplay where you get to sail your ship around. All in all, I think it's a pretty good tablet / mobile gaming format, and the graphics you can run on tablets and smartphones surprise me positively sometimes.
Right now basically the only reason I'm writing a post is that both my tablet and phone had software updates available, so I'm waiting for those to finish downloading and installing. We'll see if the phone update makes all my keyboard shortcuts disappear again, like they've done with all past updates since iOS 8. FYI: If you have this same problem with keyboard shortcuts (the list) disappearing from your Settings > General > Keyboards > Shortcuts, try turning Predictive keyboards off and on again. It seems to work for me. Some people have also reported that the problem of the shortcuts remaining in the phone as a list but not showing up when you type can be sorted out with the same solution. Of course, all of this information and various other possible solutions can be found on the Apple discussion forums but I thought I'd share it here in case someone else is struggling with this.
I'm sorry I keep talking about how "well" I'm doing at school right now, I'm just really proud of myself. Also, in case someone is interested, I added all of my social medias into my profile.
Bye!
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