15 sunday
went to campus to work on my ESM draft and to the gym.
16 monday
had a skype meeting with adrian at 9 in the morning. end of his day but the start to mine. it was really really really nice to talk to him. hadn't had contact other than emails since he left i guess. and with the things we were discussing (related to this ESM article draft) it really works better to be able to have a back and forth conversation. not a delayed attempt at describing my question via email. so that was great. it was the last day of the holiday break and so i wanted to do something before re-starting the regular week. and since it wasn't raining, i decided that i would take part of the afternoon and go for a walk and see the modern art gallery since i had never been. so i did that and had a lovely few hours to myself seeing sculpture and walking through a bit of town that i don't usually.
and then i went to campus and worked on my draft and went to the gym.
photos: http://blogographannex.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/modern-art-walk.html
17 tuesday
article draft work and then oscars work
18 wednesday
went to the gym and to get work done on campus before oscars work.
received word that i have been awarded a scholarship to curtin university which makes it financially possible to live in australia while going to school there. which is amazing. it really is, but while that news is great, it didn't come with a revised letter to be able to apply for a visa. so i'm still trying to sort out the visa, and being here, and getting there and whatnot.
19 thursday
while my pottery class has finished, the thursday people still have class. so i went to pottery class to finish glazing my 3 pieces that weren't fired before my class finished. and i picked up a bunch of my finished stuff. i like some of them. i don't know what to do with them though now.
photos: http://blogographannex.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/edinhoodies.html
20 friday
called australia to ask about my scholarship offer and then went to the post office to post my acceptance of the scholarship. sadly it has to be a physical thing and will take 7-10 days to travel there. and the lady that goes to is not someone who is able to help me with my enrollment letter. so i emailed that lady hoping that in this coming week i can get that letter sorted out. i'm still stressed about the whole process - my brain hasn't really factored in this scholarship to make it more likely that australia will happen. i think i need to have the letter to apply for the visa before that. i went to school to try to be very productive. and i was sort of productive and cleaned out most of what i had there but being on campus wasn't that great. was hoping to see jane-marie but she didn't come in so that was that.
spent the evening going through clothes and things to find more to donate and clean up my room. and scanning some documents to cut down on papers that i then won't need to move.
21 saturday
spent a large portion of the day cleaning since brittany and i are having an open house today (sunday) for potential new renters for the flat. as part of our deal in breaking our lease early we're sort of in charge of dealing with finding new people for the flat. the open house is happening right now, we've had three sets of people come in. only one group was interested but we're waiting on more people who said they were coming although it's close to the end of the time we said we'd have it. so i'm less excited about the chance of sorting it out today.
after cleaning, brittany and i went to the cafe to do some writing. i re-went through my discussion and conclusion bit of my draft and figured it's at a point to send back off to adrian. so i did email it to him last night. hopefully it's not too terrible. i think that bit is a bit jumbled - the ideas are there but it's not the most precise writing. and now it's 19,500 + words (a dissertation amount). as adrian said, it will make a nice sound when dropped on a desk in paper format. and it is a then a considerable chapter of my thesis. so hopefully it's not terrible.
we went to wetherspoons to have a pint and burger meal deal for the evening. there was this concert thing that was supposed to happen but then plans got all iffy and weird so we opted not to do that and just go to the pub. it was a chill evening although real madrid was playing barcelona so the pub was packed for the match.
22 sunday (today)
went for a walk along the canal and ended up at asda. and this open house. so far not as successful as hoped. but the flat's really nice and clean and tidy. maybe people will still arrive. we'll see.
photos: http://blogographannex.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/canal-walk.html
went to campus to work on my ESM draft and to the gym.
16 monday
had a skype meeting with adrian at 9 in the morning. end of his day but the start to mine. it was really really really nice to talk to him. hadn't had contact other than emails since he left i guess. and with the things we were discussing (related to this ESM article draft) it really works better to be able to have a back and forth conversation. not a delayed attempt at describing my question via email. so that was great. it was the last day of the holiday break and so i wanted to do something before re-starting the regular week. and since it wasn't raining, i decided that i would take part of the afternoon and go for a walk and see the modern art gallery since i had never been. so i did that and had a lovely few hours to myself seeing sculpture and walking through a bit of town that i don't usually.
and then i went to campus and worked on my draft and went to the gym.
photos: http://blogographannex.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/modern-art-walk.html
17 tuesday
article draft work and then oscars work
18 wednesday
went to the gym and to get work done on campus before oscars work.
received word that i have been awarded a scholarship to curtin university which makes it financially possible to live in australia while going to school there. which is amazing. it really is, but while that news is great, it didn't come with a revised letter to be able to apply for a visa. so i'm still trying to sort out the visa, and being here, and getting there and whatnot.
19 thursday
while my pottery class has finished, the thursday people still have class. so i went to pottery class to finish glazing my 3 pieces that weren't fired before my class finished. and i picked up a bunch of my finished stuff. i like some of them. i don't know what to do with them though now.
photos: http://blogographannex.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/edinhoodies.html
20 friday
called australia to ask about my scholarship offer and then went to the post office to post my acceptance of the scholarship. sadly it has to be a physical thing and will take 7-10 days to travel there. and the lady that goes to is not someone who is able to help me with my enrollment letter. so i emailed that lady hoping that in this coming week i can get that letter sorted out. i'm still stressed about the whole process - my brain hasn't really factored in this scholarship to make it more likely that australia will happen. i think i need to have the letter to apply for the visa before that. i went to school to try to be very productive. and i was sort of productive and cleaned out most of what i had there but being on campus wasn't that great. was hoping to see jane-marie but she didn't come in so that was that.
spent the evening going through clothes and things to find more to donate and clean up my room. and scanning some documents to cut down on papers that i then won't need to move.
21 saturday
spent a large portion of the day cleaning since brittany and i are having an open house today (sunday) for potential new renters for the flat. as part of our deal in breaking our lease early we're sort of in charge of dealing with finding new people for the flat. the open house is happening right now, we've had three sets of people come in. only one group was interested but we're waiting on more people who said they were coming although it's close to the end of the time we said we'd have it. so i'm less excited about the chance of sorting it out today.
after cleaning, brittany and i went to the cafe to do some writing. i re-went through my discussion and conclusion bit of my draft and figured it's at a point to send back off to adrian. so i did email it to him last night. hopefully it's not too terrible. i think that bit is a bit jumbled - the ideas are there but it's not the most precise writing. and now it's 19,500 + words (a dissertation amount). as adrian said, it will make a nice sound when dropped on a desk in paper format. and it is a then a considerable chapter of my thesis. so hopefully it's not terrible.
we went to wetherspoons to have a pint and burger meal deal for the evening. there was this concert thing that was supposed to happen but then plans got all iffy and weird so we opted not to do that and just go to the pub. it was a chill evening although real madrid was playing barcelona so the pub was packed for the match.
22 sunday (today)
went for a walk along the canal and ended up at asda. and this open house. so far not as successful as hoped. but the flat's really nice and clean and tidy. maybe people will still arrive. we'll see.
photos: http://blogographannex.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/canal-walk.html
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