Spinster Aunt

Wow. So much is happening right now. Here are some edited highlights:

• First, Pimping a show: The Gruen Transfer, ABC1, Wednesday night.
  30 minute show about advertising, including tactics used by the industry, analysing different campaigns, and my favourite part: "Selling the un-sellable", where two agencies are briefed to come up with an ad for an utterly un-sellable product. (Think: Baghdad Tourism.) And because Aunty is awesome when it comes to new media, the entire thing is vodcast. Check it out.



• New Glasses! ( Pic under cut )
  
  
• Australian universities are starting to get in on iTunes U. So far they have ANU, Griffith, Uni of WA, Uni of Melbourne & UNSW. Come on, Sydney. Get your act together. I'm happy to listen to Economics or Shakespeare or History from the US. Law...not so much.



• I randomly went to a lace exhibit at a local gallery, and ended up randomly moderating a group discussion on the difference between "Art" and "Craft" and presenting the results to a group including curators at the Powerhouse Museum and presidents of the guilds. I did not embarrass myself.



• I graduated from MTC, and on the night my friend mentioned she was going to do a short course at NIDA. I was reminded of the other short courses at NIDA and...



• I enrolled in a corset making class at NIDA. Two weeks in, one to go. I have something resembling a bodice - I need to put the boning in. Pics here



• Went to the Stitches & Craft show on Saturday. Bought some beautiful green laceweight yarn...mmmmm.... Don't know what I'll use it for yet. ( Pic under cut )
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• My Feedback got read out on Filmspotting! Top 5 Best Dressed Characters. Of course that <i>would</i> be the subject upon which I am most opinionated and articulate when it comes to film...) Check it out here: I'm in for two minutes starting at 40:30)

Have left assignment to the last minute...again.  Unfortunate, since I'm less than half way through my outline and am already over the word limit.  (It's on how Mark uses incidents involving Peter to show more of Jesus' person and/or work.) 

Essay contains the phrase, "Peter freaked out." 

I can't help thinking that Peter is such a Gryffindor.  He wears his heart on his sleeve and is capable of such loyalty and bravery on one hand, all brash promises and gusto (and has the typical Gryffindor notion of planning - this is a guy who's in a boat in the middle of a lake, sees his friend in the distance, jumps out of the boat and runs over to him), and on the flip side is capable of heartbreaking betrayal ("Nope, don't know the guy." "Don't know who you're talking about." "Never heard of him.  Must have me confused with someone else." ::cock crows x 2:: ...  "I told you so.") 

Paul, on the other hand, is pure Slytherin.  This guy had three ambitions in his life and was singleminded in his pursuit of each of them.  1) Become Hebrew of Hebrews (check).  2) Destroy church of Jesus Christ (was midway through persecution when ambition III came along).  3) Proclaim Christ crucified and make him known.  In the course of this one he went to prison, was about to be released but appealed to Rome, got sent to Rome (all roads lead to, and consequently from), spread the good news there from which it travelled everywhere in the known world and used the time under arrest to tell his guards (conveniently chained to him 24/7 in shifts) about Jesus.  Now that is Slytherin planning. 

Ravenclaw is too easy: The Bereans were more noble than the Thesalonicans because they searched the scriptures daily to see if what Paul was saying was true.  (Acts 17:11)  If you want something a little more obvious, look no further than Solomon (as in "the wisdom of...").  It takes a certain kind of intelligence to see a problem, and see that the answer comes through saying, "Cut the kid in half".  He was given the choice of anything and asked for wisdom.  A Slytherin may ask for wisdom in the hope of getting honour and riches, but I trust that God knew his heart better than any sorting hat ever could and would have picked up that kind of duplicity. 

Hufflepuff, anyone?  (Not my speciality.)



And icon, 'cause...I can.  ;-)



Is it possible to list the word count on an assignment as "You don't want to know"?

And no prizes for guessing what I've been doing.  (Why, no, I haven't been studying for my OT1 exam on Wednesday like I planned.  How did you guess?)

To give you a hint, here is my great thought based on my activities of today: "I know" will always be a better answer than "I love you more". 

That is all. 


(Not quite all - health update for those who have been praying: Still coughing, but I'm less likely to keel over if I'm standing for more than 30 seconds.  This is a good thing.) 

Writing an essay of 500 words when you know nothing is so much more difficult than writing an essay of 1000 words when you know nothing.  When you're writing 1000 words, you mention everything you can think of to boost your word count and you know you've covered everything in some small measure.  When you're limited to 500 words, you actually need to weigh the relative importance of each point to make sure you don't waste words.  Grrrr.

So...any takers on all references to the exile in Deut 28 for the 100 words I have left? 


the_least, I hope you're having a wonderful time at the Archibalds.  ::is jealous::  I want to know all about it. 

Also, I spent my time most procrastinatingly last night.  Cate Blanchett was on Enough Rope with Andrew Denton.  I was in interview heaven.  The end to the "wordless interview" was quite lovely.  Yay to both of them! 

I added it up yesterday.  I spend 20 hrs/week at the tender mercies of cityrail.  That's almost a day a week.  This makes me sad.  And tired.  ::yawn::

Anyways, on the way home from work yesterday I ended up sitting behind Draco Malfoy.  And not just Draco, but Fanon Draco.  DT!Draco.  It was disconcerting.  Seriously, this guy looked like every piece of DT fanart that's ever been done.  I think he was annoyed with me  'cause I moved the seat.  (I was being a miserable git, as one normally is upon one's 19th hour of cityrail in a week). 

Righto.  Back to procrastinating and wasting time writing my Deuteronomy assignment.  Coffee awaits.

(so naturally I'm procrastinating and making LJ posts about it...)

I have an outline I'm working from (bashed out over two train trips in the last two days - Cityrail's infernal delays are at least good for something). It's quite an interesting topic ("How does the coming of Jesus Christ transform the Old Testament understanding of worship?"), but I'm half way through my outline and I'm already 200 words over the limit. Sheesh.

Methinks there will be some heavy editing going on in the next few hours.

Back to MS Word I go...

Wow, it's been a while since I've updated.  And so much has happened!  The big thing, I suppose, is that I've found permanent, full time, gainful employment.  Whohoo!  I start this week at African Enterprise, a missions organisation that some of my friends have been involved with in the past.  The travel will be an absolute bear, but if I can keep it to one connection I'll be happy.  (I do not trust cityrail that much...or at all, really...)

My campaign of procrastination for my exam on Tuesday is going remarkably well.  Three days to go and I haven't typed a single word.  It's been a fascinating subject, but I have defeated the fascination by my razor-honed skills in putting things off to the last minute.  It's been particularly interesting looking at the differences in the development of Christianity in .au and the US.  Some very, very, very different presuppositions went into the colonies.  Anyways, interesting stuff.  And I do have just under 48 hours now to cover 200+ years ;-)

Also, behold!  New icon!  My beloved Tyndale.  I've even modernised the spelling.  Somewhat.  (NOT A WORD, SUMMER!)  ::fangyrles::

My knitting progress has been steady.  Clapotis is finished and has been making frequent appearances upon my person.  It's a fabulous pattern; it has a certain je ne sais quois.  Folly is partially assembled on my dress form, sleeveless and having roses slowly attached.  I discovered a major problem with the sleeves that I hadn't noticed on either of them while I was doing them.  Both sleeve caps are 90o off centre.  And not even in opposite directions so I can't even call it a "design feature".  Wah.  Both sleeve caps have to be ripped back to before the cast offs to centre them properly.  :-(  The folly of Folly.  (Oh, that was dreadful.  No more puns, I promise.)  And I'm still working on the counterpane bedspread.  Not many squares to go now!  Then, of course, there is Dave's fuzzy pink knitted tie.  But I haven't figured out the correct decrease rate for that yet.  I'm a perfectionist in all things, even stupid novelty joke gifts done on a dare.  Plus, I can consider it a swatch for hallowig ;-)

Summer & Nancy, your stuff will be sent tomorrow. 

The David Hicks book of flower arranging. Presumably with a special section on Cuban foliage for those indefinite periods of detention in Camp Delta. (Possibly talking about two different David Hickses.)


Also.....

Hannah & I had our ten year friendship anniversary this week. She didn't know the exact date, but I'd looked it up in my old school handbooks and surprised her on Tuesday night after our Romans exam. I gave her tea stuff, a large hand knitted black lace stole (the blocking of which was a horrible, horrible thing, but it looks great now), and a book of Spurgeon's prayers (with instructions to PRAY for ME, because I am a selfish, selfish creature in terrible need of prayer).

Then last night I went 'round to her place for tea (with the new tea things!) and to watch Sense & Sensibility, which in Marianne & Elinor has the most accurate representation of the Hannah/Sophie dynamic that I've yet seen in literature or film. I took the video and my knitting. Hannah seemed quite impressed that I could knit with only the light from the TV - honestly, it's just stocking stitch.

I came back with the video, considerable progress on the knitting, and.....

THE BRIEFING CD-ROM!!!!!!!!!!! SQUEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!! 300 issues as pdfs! Wow wow wow wow. I'm so excited. I stayed up 'till 1.30am reading the first couple ::g:: I'll have to..er..ration my reading of the others, I think ;-) But this will be so much help for college stuff, and for personal interest reading, and it's all indexed, and you can search for authors or subjects and I did a search on Mark Thompson straight up so I could read his stuff on evangelicalism and....

wow.

So humongous thanks to Hannah for her generous and thoughtful gift. I love it.

( Reposted due to LJ stupidness )

Just back from a particularly horrid exam. Requiring doughnuts, Spinal Tap and drop spindle to recover. Wah. :-(

There's a Tyndale New Testament on display at Newcastle Library!

http://www.anglicanmedia.com.au/index.php/article/articleview/1320/1/124/

Whohoo! Oh, this is terribly exciting. (For someone who's, you know, me.) I'll have to start planning a road trip.

::fangirls Tyndale::

I was woefully underprepared for my Epistles exam. Bleh. I struggled with the short answers, because for the first time they didn't give us the references for each passage. We were meant to simply look at them and know where they came from. I didn't recognise any of them, so spent half the time I had allocated for that one randomly flipping through 1 Peter & Hebrews trying to find the context for them. I think I did okay with what I did write, though. (At least with the Hebrews one - Christ being superior to the angels...)

The other two sections, on Pauline & General epistles, were much easier. "Why did Paul write Galatians?" was a gift question, and I could have written for hours on the question of Jesus as High Priest in Hebrews. I had so much fun with that one. It's strange to be sitting in an exam looking at these things when something new hits you...I kept getting torn between writing more, and dwelling on the idea a little longer. (The writing eventually won out ;-)

Doctrine 2 next, which covers the Holy Spirit, the Church, and the End Times/Heaven/Second Coming. (Or Pneumatology, Ecclesiology and Eschatology, for those of us who wish to be completely pretentious about it :-P) Three subjects about which I know bugger all, so it ought to be interesting.

I have an epistles exam in less than 20 hours, for which I Have Not Studied at all. Reasonably, I should be cramming. But nooooo, I'm here at 1 o'clock in the morning reading Draco Malfoy, the amazing bouncing...rat. I've forgotten how much I loved that one. Entirely too funny. I'm sure my random bursts of laughter has been disturbing the neighbours.

( More fun in the SMH letters pages (not me this time!) )