Thursday, April 30, 2009
Last post as a student!
Finished my last exam today! I suppose I get to stay a student until graduation which is in June. Can't believe it is all over and now I have to wait for the results.
Sunday, April 19, 2009
Last one EVER!
Today I finished my last project for the MLIS course. I just need to get my thesis printed and bound, hope to do that tomorrow. The last submission date is actually on the 27th so I am ahead of schedule for once! Then I have a short lecture to prepare for the 24th and then an exam to take on the 29th-30th. Then it is all over! And time to look for a job I suppose but I am trying not to think about that just now :-)
Monday, March 16, 2009
Been a bit bad!
Hooray! handed in Chapter 4 a.k.a. What I found in my research. 41 pages of he said/she said/they thought.
Then I went to return some books to the library and decided not to borrow anymore - thought it safer to re-read old favourites while I am concentrating on the old thesis.
Then I had to wait ten minutes for a bus, which was my undoing. Browsing in Iða I saw book no. 4 in a series which a friend has been feeding me from time to time. It was only 900kr so cheaper than ordering off Amazon now... and book 5....and book 6. So, hrmph, I bought all three and staggered home with over 3000 page to read. And they sit in the bag now, calling to me. "Come read me". "Just a page or two".
Then I went to return some books to the library and decided not to borrow anymore - thought it safer to re-read old favourites while I am concentrating on the old thesis.
Then I had to wait ten minutes for a bus, which was my undoing. Browsing in Iða I saw book no. 4 in a series which a friend has been feeding me from time to time. It was only 900kr so cheaper than ordering off Amazon now... and book 5....and book 6. So, hrmph, I bought all three and staggered home with over 3000 page to read. And they sit in the bag now, calling to me. "Come read me". "Just a page or two".
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
All done!
Yesterday I took what should be my last interview to get data for my thesis. I really enjoyed talking to the guy and although he rabbited on about things which he wanted to talk about rather than what I was asking him, still I got some interesting stuff from him - he was so different to the others.
So I am a happy bunny today. I am making slow progress with chapter 4 Findings. So much to write and so hard to organise it and make it stick together. Only got another 11 days allowed for this chapter and wish it were longer.
So I am a happy bunny today. I am making slow progress with chapter 4 Findings. So much to write and so hard to organise it and make it stick together. Only got another 11 days allowed for this chapter and wish it were longer.
Saturday, February 7, 2009
A sad woman!
I can not see that comments like this (assuming that she actually said it) are helping equality in any way!
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article5679378.ece
"You can see what is happening,” says Katrin Olafsdottir, Associate Professor of Economics and a member of the board of New Glitnir, which is trying to devise a new mission for the crippled bank. “The men went out there and took these incredibly irrational risks — and getting loads of money for doing it, feeling really good about it - and then the women have to come in to clean it up.”
And then “I don't want to lend to men, they take unnecessary risks, they get drunk and they don't give back the money. If I lend to women they use it sensibly and they pay it back.”
There would be an outcry if a man made a similar statement about women. There will be no equality while one sex tries to enhance itself at the expense of another. I know it is engrained in the way we think, talk and joke but surely to goodness it is time it was not dished up in interviews with the press? As my daughter put it "She must be a sad woman". I may just change my bank :-(
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article5679378.ece
"You can see what is happening,” says Katrin Olafsdottir, Associate Professor of Economics and a member of the board of New Glitnir, which is trying to devise a new mission for the crippled bank. “The men went out there and took these incredibly irrational risks — and getting loads of money for doing it, feeling really good about it - and then the women have to come in to clean it up.”
And then “I don't want to lend to men, they take unnecessary risks, they get drunk and they don't give back the money. If I lend to women they use it sensibly and they pay it back.”
There would be an outcry if a man made a similar statement about women. There will be no equality while one sex tries to enhance itself at the expense of another. I know it is engrained in the way we think, talk and joke but surely to goodness it is time it was not dished up in interviews with the press? As my daughter put it "She must be a sad woman". I may just change my bank :-(
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