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tcpipThis evening I finished my final essay for Climate Change Mitigation-Environmental Issues (a strangely combined paper), where I concentrated on climate justice issues in the Pacific. The day previous I finished the final essay for International Climate Change Policy, where I wrote about China, Russia, international tensions, and international relations theory. The day previous I sat the final exam for paleoclimatology, and earlier in the week I finished the final essay on Climate Impacts and Adaption, where I wrote on the issue of food security in China. Due to an awful cold that knocked me flat for a few days I do not think some of my work on any of these is at my highest possible standard, but I'm hoping it's certainly good enough to carry me through for a B+ average so I can do the final trimester's research dissertation. Oh, and I have lazily topped the Duolingo Diamond League again.
Despite the aforementioned illness, I did have a number of social events this week. Careful planning meant that I was able to sleep deeply during the day and night, whilst in the evenings rugging up and going out without over-exerting myself. This included a debrief dinner of my recent visit to the PRC with Anthony L. and Robin M. at Gasthaus on Queen, an Austrian restaurant where I managed to practice my much-neglected knowledge of German. The following night, having purchased tickets in advance many months ago, I went with Robbie K. and Des J. to see The Sparks, a band whom I hadn't seen for some 22 years since they were last in town, and have been performing since 1966! (Someone has a video up already, good work). That event was also with Robbie at The Corner Hotel and they've picked up enough support over the years here to play at The Palais instead this time.
The following night Liana came over for a visit and dinner and celebratory drinks before we headed off to a Fringe Festival event, an "Adults Only Magic Show", which did have some very clever tricks and was more on the light-hearted bawdy rather than erotic side (if one must know). On the PT trip there we ran into![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
excessivepurple, whom I hadn't seen for almost twenty years, a very pleasant surprise. After the show, Liana and I were talking about old Murdoch University courses and she mentioned how she would love to go through some of her old course readings in screen studies and drama. I mentioned that I had quite a collection of these books and, following an fossick through my collection, Liana discovered her old "Drama: East and West" course reader from over thirty years ago (it still had her name in the front cover). There really is some excellent writing in that old book by the course co-ordinator, David George, and it's a bit of a shame that there's no online references to it. It seems that in some ways my own home has become an archive of knowledge produced decades ago.
Despite the aforementioned illness, I did have a number of social events this week. Careful planning meant that I was able to sleep deeply during the day and night, whilst in the evenings rugging up and going out without over-exerting myself. This included a debrief dinner of my recent visit to the PRC with Anthony L. and Robin M. at Gasthaus on Queen, an Austrian restaurant where I managed to practice my much-neglected knowledge of German. The following night, having purchased tickets in advance many months ago, I went with Robbie K. and Des J. to see The Sparks, a band whom I hadn't seen for some 22 years since they were last in town, and have been performing since 1966! (Someone has a video up already, good work). That event was also with Robbie at The Corner Hotel and they've picked up enough support over the years here to play at The Palais instead this time.
The following night Liana came over for a visit and dinner and celebratory drinks before we headed off to a Fringe Festival event, an "Adults Only Magic Show", which did have some very clever tricks and was more on the light-hearted bawdy rather than erotic side (if one must know). On the PT trip there we ran into
excessivepurple, whom I hadn't seen for almost twenty years, a very pleasant surprise. After the show, Liana and I were talking about old Murdoch University courses and she mentioned how she would love to go through some of her old course readings in screen studies and drama. I mentioned that I had quite a collection of these books and, following an fossick through my collection, Liana discovered her old "Drama: East and West" course reader from over thirty years ago (it still had her name in the front cover). There really is some excellent writing in that old book by the course co-ordinator, David George, and it's a bit of a shame that there's no online references to it. It seems that in some ways my own home has become an archive of knowledge produced decades ago.