Or at least their abuse of the letter z. And damn them for winning. It’s not stigmatized, it’s stigmatised… Aaaaugh.
Category: General
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EuroPride
Help?!
We’ve got a float (well; a Morris Minor dressed as a police car) in EuroPride and two of our friends have generously agreed to be stewards; our good friend Guy would like to bring his minor also but has not got the required 2 stewards. If anyone fancies being a steward, they get a free ride from Brizzy in a Minor, get to be part of EuroPride 2006 – and generally have a fracking great day :-)
Um, so, anyone… we need to know by tomorrow, and need to get people registered by tomorrow. If you can, mail me [k a te [at] p y o or (dot) org] and we’ll sort you out with the link to register. *Looks hopefully around*
It’ll be fun, honest…
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La la la not listening
So, work.
Today it’s back to work. After 3 days off (again) I pile headlong into the following:
4 EU Questions (to be finished today)
2000 Word Essay (to be finished tomorrow, I hope)
6000 Words of Dissertation (to be finished monday)I need to go and have a shower; and then work. At least I’m feeling better today; yesterday I was exhausted and felt rough as fuck; after swimming we went back to Nikkis and suddenly the mild background headache did it’s best to overwhelm me; by the time I got home I felt utterly terrible. I had a kip (unintenionally); still felt rough. Felt rough enough that the concept of food was unpleasant. I continued to feel rough – ate some dinner (well, breakfast, technically) – continued to feel rough. Headed to bed where I lay there for over an hour, feeling rough before I finally got to sleep.
So today’s not feeling rough is a really good thing. I realise this is the world’s most dull LJ post, but the choice is between this and reading stuff on Critical Reflective Practice. And this is more interesting….
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Poot.
I’m shattered. I’ve done some research for the 2k word essay despite falling asleep while trying to read some of the papers I’ve got. So yeah. I’ve won an auction for a bit that I need to fix Cherry but I’m waiting for the bloke to e-mail me back to say whether he can supply the rest of the bits. I can’t see the wing mirrors that came off Claire anywhere, so I’ll have to have a proper hunt. Hopefully though, I’ll get her back on the road next week…
Blah. Really. I just feel completely done in and want to sleep. Lots.
I went swimming this morning though, with Nikki, Lorna and Onne; Nikki, Onne and I forming the world’s worst synchronised swimming team under Lorna’s careful direction; and Nikki learning to do Butterfly stroke (very impressive, if somewhat more splashy than the rest of her strokes).
Then Lorna headed off and we went back and produced a roast dinner. Sadly, the Yorkshire’s were made with gluten free flour (a mistake, but it was all we had), but the rest of it went really well. We then played Mashed, Auto Modellista, and some racing game that I can’t remember the name of, but discovered that if you set the damage to ‘simulation’ instead of ‘cosmetic’ I actually have a hope of winning – or at least, not embarassing myself quite as badly as I did yesterday…
But the poot. The poot is because I saw someone interesting on LJ, in a community, either queer Toronto, canadian lesbian, or whatever; and I thought ‘ooh, I will keep their page open and I shall look…’, only I closed it and now can’t find their post. So poot. And the house is going for insaneoheat. I wish it’d make it’s mind up.
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MMOC website rally
Pickytures from a fabby day are here
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Site update.
My god, I’ve actually updated the bikes page. No, really, I have. Go meet Cherry (who I keep typing as Cheery which is actually how she got her name (“Chirpy chirpy cheep cheap cheery cherry”) (or something)).
The picture of Cherry is, incidentally, very flattering. And yes, I realise that for reasons which are not entirely apparent to me I’ve managed to call all my bikes names beginning with C.
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My god, how did that get there?
Err. I appear to have aquired another motorcycle. Um. Yes.
Cherry, I think, from our first meeting. A Red 1996 Kanuni MZ ETZ 251. Err. Yes. She runs, and is complete, which are definately the best things about her. The layer of surface corrosion is less attractive, the rattly top end isn’t brilliant, but she’s got lots of bits, so there should be two good ETZs, and she’s pretty much ridable; I just need to put a battery in, put a new fork-seal in and a new speedo cable, she should then be fit for an MOT :-)
Shiny* :-)
*Shiny as in the firefly / serenity, not shiny as in shiny, ‘cos that she ain’t.
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I’ll just take an hour off…
(4 hours later)
Yeah, so I thought, I’ll just swap the hinge, a really nice bloke on the MMOC sent me a replacement hinge, ESM only list one so we wrongly assumed they were all the same – it turns out there’s a different variant of the hinge. Of course, this only became apparent when I looked rather more closely at it, having spent several happy hours swearing, leaning heavily on things attempting to persuade the panel gaps to be right, trying to coax the door into not hitting the wing, and eventually calling John to see if he had any ideas.
Attempts to remove the hinge pin to take the different part from the old hinge (which was okay) and swap it for the new one, that failed too. Eventually we settled for making up some spacers… and adding some washers… the door now shuts beautifully, but the word ‘bodge’ springs to mind.
I shall clearly have to obtain a new hinge. I also, sadly, need two hinge bolts as two of them stripped their threads instead of coming out. Sometimes I wish I’d not started these jobs.
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Help!
Okay.
Certain things in my degree have to have evidence provided on ‘skills sheets’. Drug administration is one of these, Communication, bizarrely, is also one. But today we’ve had: Literacy, Numeracy, Application of IT and… Problem solving. Okay. So, it’s a skill, but can anyone suggest how *exactly* you fit problem solving into:
Preparation: The student prepares the patient/client, environment and self appropriately
Performance: The student should perform the skill, demonstrating their understanding of how they practice the skill using an evidence base.
Reporting/documentation: The student ensures all essential information is appropriately communicated to the team.
I’m tempted to do:
Preparation: The student prepares the patient/client, environment and self appropriately
Talk to patient (see communication skills sheet) and find there’s a problem.
Performance: The student should perform the skill, demonstrating their understanding of how they practice the skill using an evidence base.
Fix the problem.
Reporting/documentation: The student ensures all essential information is appropriately communicated to the team.
Document the problem and its solution.But somehow I feel that doesn’t cover it. *sighs*. I think that *is* what I’ll write, just with longer words. And if you really want a challenge, put ‘Numeracy’ into that format.
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The Learning Outcomes
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