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Completed and Continuing Studies, Gaming Activities, Social Life
I have pretty much finished the Introduction to Psychology MOOC from the University of Toronto. A couple of days prior I did the end-of-semester exam (93%, I think the exam may have a question wrong) and today I handed in the essay for peer review, which I've also posted on the Isocracy Network site for relevance; "Post-Truth Politics and Conspiracy Prejudices". As it is meant to be a 13-week course and I have completed it in a month there will be some time before I get to review the essays of others. I guess I can revise content for fun over the next eight weeks or so. But no fear, I will keep myself busy as I work with yet another MOOC, this time Macroeconomics from the University of California, Irvine. Plus, I may as well get as much of my MHEd thesis completed before the near year comes around; at c25,000 words it is wise to get a bit of a head start on it.
As is also my wont the past few days have witnessed no less that three of my regular gaming sessions; today included both our Cyberpunk 2020 game which is going completely Neuromance on us, and our RuneQuest Glorantha game in which we played "The Rattling Wind" scenario which was released last year for Greg Stafford Day, and on Thursday evening played through another session of LexOccultum; there will be a review of this game in the next issue of RPG Review. I've also taken some stock and restarted the RPG Review store which immediately resulted in several hundred dollars worth of sales. In addition, I've started the initial document for "Great Southern Land: The Continent of Pamaltela", which I hope to work with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
strangedave, who has had an interest in this largely undeveloped region of Glorantha for many years.
As mentioned in my last journal entry, the state of Victoria has done something quite incredible in its success of bringing down the number of new daily COVID-19 cases from several hundred a day to zero, with only one mystery case outstanding. As a result, and following the Chief Health Officer's recommendations, people have indeed being going out and enjoying themselves, albeit with some minor movement restrictions and requisite face masks. On Friday night, for example, took the opportunity to visit Brendan E., who gave us options for popular culture. We settled on The Distinguished Gentlemen, a comedy that was illustrative of political machinations, especially considering that an operative (Marty Kaplan, Walter Mondale's speech writer) had written the script. As much as Melbourne is enjoying the company of old friends and true, I get the feeling that we're being a little guarded and for good reason. Still, what has been achieved is a model for the rest of the world, as the UK is now discovering, a little late.
As is also my wont the past few days have witnessed no less that three of my regular gaming sessions; today included both our Cyberpunk 2020 game which is going completely Neuromance on us, and our RuneQuest Glorantha game in which we played "The Rattling Wind" scenario which was released last year for Greg Stafford Day, and on Thursday evening played through another session of LexOccultum; there will be a review of this game in the next issue of RPG Review. I've also taken some stock and restarted the RPG Review store which immediately resulted in several hundred dollars worth of sales. In addition, I've started the initial document for "Great Southern Land: The Continent of Pamaltela", which I hope to work with
strangedave, who has had an interest in this largely undeveloped region of Glorantha for many years. As mentioned in my last journal entry, the state of Victoria has done something quite incredible in its success of bringing down the number of new daily COVID-19 cases from several hundred a day to zero, with only one mystery case outstanding. As a result, and following the Chief Health Officer's recommendations, people have indeed being going out and enjoying themselves, albeit with some minor movement restrictions and requisite face masks. On Friday night, for example, took the opportunity to visit Brendan E., who gave us options for popular culture. We settled on The Distinguished Gentlemen, a comedy that was illustrative of political machinations, especially considering that an operative (Marty Kaplan, Walter Mondale's speech writer) had written the script. As much as Melbourne is enjoying the company of old friends and true, I get the feeling that we're being a little guarded and for good reason. Still, what has been achieved is a model for the rest of the world, as the UK is now discovering, a little late.
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I usually combine activities and knowledge (e.g., my psych assignment is also an isocracy website article).
Engaging in any sort of popular culture activity (e.g., watching a movie on a weekend) is sufficiently rare that I comment on it. :)