Things don't turn out quite as expected

I spent this weekend in London starting the second (and final) part of my BSL Level 3. The teaching was very good, the explanations were very good, they gave a lot of constructive criticism and I think by far it's one the best training providers I've enrolled with.  However I now feel like a complete dunce.  Partly because I've been given a lot of areas to improve.  Which is good, because without criticism you don't know you're going wrong and you can't improve.

But, I now have a lot of homework to do before next Saturday, which is the next training weekend, and a lot of things to consider and improve upon.  Apart from pre-scheduled posts, I probably won't be posting much.  Unless I decide to upload videos of myself signing, which won't be very interesting for any of you, because I don't think any of you know BSL.

Ah well, we'll see.

Stuff and comments

I'm gonna be really busy for the next few days and have been for the last, well ages, really. I have a word do tomorrow night and I'm off to London for the weekend for the Reclaim the Night march on Saturday.

I have noticed comments have been left on some of my more political posts recently - right now I'm too worn out and got too much life stuff going on to trust myself to be able to answer them and argue them well. So, still here, still reading comments but feel like I may inadvertently pick a fight if I respond. So I'm not going to. Plus, feeling ultra sensitive and not good at criticism right now. :/

Have a good weekend everybody.

Busy busy busy

And full of womb cramp. Not impressed. I've got so much stuff I want to put on here..responses to comments left recently, comments on this week's comics, a general squeakiness about my action figures, I'd like to continue the post I wrote weeks ago about porn and comics, I'd like to respond to Allecto's further review of Firefly's Objects in Space but I haven't even read it yet. If you do want to read more about it check out Lord Runolfr here.

Unfortunately I've been really busy at work this week and also the boyfriend's back - the reason I got so many post up last week was cos he was away visiting his folks so we didn't have the usual battle of who gets to use the pc!

Also it's been really cold and the computer room is the coldest room in the house so my fingers turn to icicles in the evenings. I need mittens. Instead I've been watching lots of Buffy (season 4, Willow gets with Tara and I've finally come up with a satisfactory off screen explanation of how she went from straight to gay with no apparent warning) and reading lots of books.

Ursula le Guin's The Birthday of the World is my current read. Finally, finally I appreciate the short story. This is superb. I love her take on stuff and some of the stories and themes leave my head spinning, they're so fresh and new to me.

So yet again it's cold and I'm due to take the boyfriend out for his birthday so I'll be off. Rest assured I read all my comments and given time I would respond to every one (if only to have the last word ;) )