Tired

I spent today writ­ing up lec­tures for my course because this new job starts on Tues­day effect­ively and I don’t think I’ll have time to actu­ally write the lec­tures during the weeks I’m giving them.

If you’re doing it right, writ­ing a lec­ture takes a lot of damned effort. Even if you know the mater­ial, it’s a matter of read­ing or skim­ming a hell of a lot of stuff to con­firm that you’ve ana­lysed a par­tic­u­lar thing cor­rectly or that you’re quot­ing the right person. These are notes that someone is going to write down as if it’s gospel. I can’t just be at the “good enough” level that I’m at defend­ing an argu­ment at a party.

So, I’ve just done “inter­net cul­tures”, “his­tory of hyper­text”, “the­or­ising hyper­text”, “com­pre­hen­sion and present­a­tion: con­cise, scan­nable and object­ive” and kind of balked when I got to the one on Nielsen and usab­il­ity because I hate him (this’ll be inter­est­ing if any of my smarter stu­dents pick up on the fact that I men­tioned I keep a blog…).

I’m wor­ried I won’t get all 12 weeks’ worth of lec­tures writ­ten by the end of this week (no, let’s be ser­i­ous, I know I won’t) and I’m wor­ried about what that means for my one day a week ‘free time’ I had hoped for.

Anyhow, it’s def­in­itely too late at night now to give you my MIFF reviews, so that will just have to wait.

I will say I’m pleased that Labour has taken a stance on the PBS and the local con­tent aspects of the FTA which were the bits that wor­ried me the most, and that it appears to be a firm stance. Howard’s idi­otic asser­tion that you can only be com­pletely for or com­pletely against the FTA just reaf­firms his narrow-minded con­cep­tion of the world).

Of course, Latham could indeed have said no to the whole thing. That would have been good.