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After five years on the waiting list I finally have had the opportunity to attend instructor training for Software Carpentry, with the downside was that the training sessions were being held remotely in the U.S. - so for two days in a row day started at 2am in the morning and I would make it through as far as I could during the rest of the day. As for content it was pretty good overall, even someone who has done plenty of adult education like myself still found plenty of material to work with. There is a bit of post-training work to do before certification (including making an improvement to an existing course), but it's largely a matter of procedure now.
With the most boring task yet to do to complete my Kickstarter pledge for Cow-Orkers in the Scary Devil Monastery, i.e., critter statistics, I've finally forced myself to head towards the final line on this very late task. There are just a few thousand words to go on content, around 61K out of an aimed 65K completed, which I really can get done in a day or so. But I have just discovered that the line-count is too long and, as a result, I may have to take some material out. Squeezing all the content that one wants in the right page count is quite a pain.
Despite these brain and time-consuming activities, I have managed to get some more economics studies done. I am almost finished with the first round of intensive studies for Public Economics and have had a flurry of activity in Macroeconomics as well. The next few days I will switch to Microeconomics and Econometrics. The latter really worries me; I think I'll need another year to get that course complete. In addition to this, I rattled off the weekly short essay for the MSc InfoSys without much effort (it was project management content that I am already familiar with), and likewise with the MHEd on adult learning. Mid-semester assignments for the latter two courses are due quite soon so next week will have significant dedication in that regard. At least my sleep patterns seem to be reasonably well back in sync again - it's quite remarkable how little sleep I can get away with, and it's been like that since, well, since my adolescence, which was a quite a while ago now.
With the most boring task yet to do to complete my Kickstarter pledge for Cow-Orkers in the Scary Devil Monastery, i.e., critter statistics, I've finally forced myself to head towards the final line on this very late task. There are just a few thousand words to go on content, around 61K out of an aimed 65K completed, which I really can get done in a day or so. But I have just discovered that the line-count is too long and, as a result, I may have to take some material out. Squeezing all the content that one wants in the right page count is quite a pain.
Despite these brain and time-consuming activities, I have managed to get some more economics studies done. I am almost finished with the first round of intensive studies for Public Economics and have had a flurry of activity in Macroeconomics as well. The next few days I will switch to Microeconomics and Econometrics. The latter really worries me; I think I'll need another year to get that course complete. In addition to this, I rattled off the weekly short essay for the MSc InfoSys without much effort (it was project management content that I am already familiar with), and likewise with the MHEd on adult learning. Mid-semester assignments for the latter two courses are due quite soon so next week will have significant dedication in that regard. At least my sleep patterns seem to be reasonably well back in sync again - it's quite remarkable how little sleep I can get away with, and it's been like that since, well, since my adolescence, which was a quite a while ago now.
