Result (hmmm....)
Got my mark from my tutor for that piece I put on here recently.
I got 82%, which is a "B". You need 85 for an "A".
OK, I know that 82 is a good mark, but I was quite pleased with that piece of writing, more than anything else I've handed in, so I was a wee bit disappointed. So, I wrote and asked him what would have made it an "A".
He said that there were similies and metaphors in it that he didn't get, and so it couldn't be an "A", as "A"s are only for stuff that is publishable. Huh?
Hmmm...... sort of knocked me down a tad.
OK I have a piece of prose, 2000 words, due in by 14th September, plus another 500 words written about it.
Then two pieces of 1250 words each due in by 5th October, along with another 700 words about them.
Nothing written so far.
Nothing in my head writing itself, as sometimes happens, either.
Oh bugger!!!
I got 82%, which is a "B". You need 85 for an "A".
OK, I know that 82 is a good mark, but I was quite pleased with that piece of writing, more than anything else I've handed in, so I was a wee bit disappointed. So, I wrote and asked him what would have made it an "A".
He said that there were similies and metaphors in it that he didn't get, and so it couldn't be an "A", as "A"s are only for stuff that is publishable. Huh?
Hmmm...... sort of knocked me down a tad.
OK I have a piece of prose, 2000 words, due in by 14th September, plus another 500 words written about it.
Then two pieces of 1250 words each due in by 5th October, along with another 700 words about them.
Nothing written so far.
Nothing in my head writing itself, as sometimes happens, either.
Oh bugger!!!
It's a distance course, but there is an online "forum" for other students. Not many take part. I'm not a part-taker, myself, not much. But I've had a browse over the last few days and see a lot of them talking about having lost their "Muse".
MUSE????
The only muse in my life are mews, and they are produced by my lovely two cats, who live with my mum now, cos she has a big garden and I don't, and I live by a busy road, and anyway, if I had them here, how would I be able to get down there to see her without a cat-sitter up here?
Sorry. It's a sore point.
THIS cheered me up though. Wasn't going to put it on here - not keen on long posts. But it made me laugh.
This is from an online test, to see if you're Bi-Polar:
- Are you on medication?
- Do you like blue cars?
- When considering heights, does the thought of jumping / flying come into play?
- Do you have bad credit?
- When contemplating seeing a psychiatrist, do you consider yourself an experiment?
- Do you shuffle your feet?
- Do you like blue cars?
- Do you think "they're" crazy?
- When you think about being 'normal', do you get depressed?
- Do you keep noticing things that others miss e.g., birds, daisies, bricks, blue cars?
Results:
0-2 Check your pulse!
3-4 Close, but no cigar
5-8 Yep, you're bi-polar
9-10 This isn't funny, get professional help immediately
