Another general update

Jun 21, 2008 02:11

Results came out; my Uni (officially speaking) wants (due to me having a good overall mark but screwing up two units) to give me an upper second class BSc rather than letting me go onto the final year of my MEng, which is not what I want. So I'm intending to go in on Monday to find out my options - unofficial policy is supposedly more lenient, but I'm not sure if it's come into play yet or not, and thus whether that's their final position or if it's still negotiable. Hopefully I can get a chance to do the fourth year somehow...
I'm reminded of one thing a friend said a few times, though: "Why does everything have to be so hard?". While it doesn't seem to fit me very well, it does have a certain ring of truth to it, particularly now when things should have been a lot more relaxed than they have been.

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I mentioned how LC was "offline for renovation" in a previous post; this turned out to be an admin choice made for unknown reasons. With that said, I managed to collect most of the regulars at a new board, although, it was really Travis (and others, recursively, after being contacted by him, I think), who did the actual collecting of people. In any case, I'm watching over the place carefully, with two main short term objectives:
- Get hold of the last member who was active on that RP on LC. I've made a move in this direction, but as it may not get noticed quickly would like to get one of two certain people to use a more direct approach.
- Work towards getting the right 'flavour' on this new board, which mainly means driving forwards for a bit before considering recruiting of new people. I am not sure how wise this is, but I think it is an important part of trying to replace a forum.

Indirectly getting hold of specific people is a rather weird feeling, though. Also, adminning in this way is rather scary; while having source-code level control over a forum is really cool for what it allows, it means that every lull in activity after I make a change gets me wondering if I broke something somehow. O_o

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My last (as in 'most recent', but also 'last chronologically of the ones I was aiming to attend this academic year') Wing Chun session was quite interesting; as the others who showed up were more advanced, I got shown the second form for the first time. I mean, I've seen it performed before, but not been asked if I'd like to follow along - since later we covered application of stuff covered in it, that meant I got introduced to some new techniques. It was pretty cool. ^^

I think I've been learning pretty quickly at this, though that's probably due to being very diligent about turning up. I am not sure how effective it would be for me in an actual fight situation, though; while WC strikes me as a brutally efficient fighting style, little of the training I've done has been to hurt an opponent. On the contrary, strikes have had to be pulled to make practice safe, so I wonder if I'd be able to switch to hurting-mode without my technique breaking somewhat at least. Or if I can even hit hard enough to take someone out without needing to target dangerously weak points like necks and such.
Still, it's possible I'll never need to find out. I started this because I wanted to be able to fight (to protect myself or someone else or whatever), not because I need to particularly often...

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I was going to add something here about comforting and/or offering condolences and such to people, and it not seeming to come naturally to me, maybe due to coldheartedness or my detached thoughts or such? I mean, I care, but if there's no advice I can give or other stuff I can do, I really don't know what to say. There've been times, I think, when I've said nothing when random people on forums have wanted support - that is maybe the reason why, in that when I don't know what to say I'm more likely either to give up trying to say it, or to not know how by the time I should have spoken, or perhaps even by when it's no longer necessary.

That last paragraph rambled a bit perhaps, but that is because I am not really sure what it is I wanted to say on the topic. Other than perhaps "silence doesn't mean I didn't read and care", maybe.

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Princess Tutu is a good anime. I've mentioned my thoughts on it elsewhere, so won't bother repeating them here; instead, the topic to bounce off it should maybe be recommendations. Some ones I've thought recently about making:
- Witches Abroad (the Terry Pratchett book) to those who liked the ideas about stories explored in Tutu's plot. This strikes me as particularly something I should consider suggesting to Barry?
- Kekkaishi, to... I dunno. It is a shounen action series, but strikes me as a lot more intelligent than the stuff that usually implies. I think it's really good, but don't know who else would if they had it pointed out to them...
- Nanoha, to appropriate targets of opportunity. It is, after all, my highest-ranked action-y series.

One problem, though, is that I think I'm pretty bad at advertising stuff, which seems pretty much what convincing someone to watch something comes down to. Part of this might be my tendency to understate stuff, maybe? Or I may just be terrible at it.

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I think that was all of what I had to say at the moment. ^^
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