Kel's Blog

As I am studying off campus this year (therefore teaching myself from the class notes etc) the uni decides to be nice and send off campus students the reader and study guide materials that are required for subjects. Around 2 weeks ago I received the reader and study guide for 1 subject, and the reader for another subject. As yet I have received nothing for a 3rd subject.

Uni starts in 2 weeks and according to the unit guides for the subjects, I should have a reader and study guide for each subject. So yesterday I emailed the unit chairs asking to confirm if the unit guide was correct in stating we needed those materials, and if so, I would follow it up with the course materials people.

Subject 1 – I have received the reader and study guide.

Subject 2 – I have only received the reader for.

On the booklist website there is no mention of the reader, so I sent an email to the unit chair asking about it. He nicely replied saying that it was almost finished and he would post it on dso for us to download this afternoon or early next week. Nice and simple answer.

Subject 3 – I have received no materials.

On the booklist website, for the 3^rd year subject (the level I’m doing it at) it only mentions a textbook that we need to buy. For the 2^nd year subject, it also mentions the reading pack. Now, I emailed the unit chair (like I did with subject 1) asking if the reader and study guide were needed for the 3^rd year subject even though it wasn’t listed on the booklist. In the past there have been differences between the 2^nd and 3^rd year subjects and materials required so I thought I’d seek a clarification before harassing the course materials people.

Here’s the response I received today…..

“ I have spent a whole year writing and preparing the Study Guide and Reader for this unit. Read the Unit Guide again! Have I wasted my (il)literacy on this kind of wild goose chase? Bookstore doe snot send them out, DSO and some postal operation within Deakin does. I am not a postman, sorry (professors don’t need to burden themselves with shop deliveries matters, they need time and space to sit and think and write!). I am sure the Unit Guide tells yuo who to contact in such matters – surely not the ‘Unit Chair’, there must be a ‘Unit Table’ too.

Few students who live outside the Melb-Geelong metropolis have complained to me about this. A class complaint may be in order, but to the appropriate division.”

WHAT A BITCH!!!!!!!!!!! (I assume it is a she…..it’s some weird Indian name which is only adding to my dislike of Indian people)

All I was after was a clarification that yes, I did need those materials (as they aren’t listed on the booklist) and I’d follow it up with the course materials people.

So, I replied saying I didn’t realise I was asking such a trivial question and that I’ll know not bother her in the future with any problems.

*sigh*

anyway, we’re in the middle of a nice summer thunderstorm at the moment….nice thunder, a bit of lightning and HUGE raindrops. So I went outside to take a photo or two of just HOW HUGE they are, when my computer finished downloading an update for Picasa and then restarted my computer. DAMN THING! Luckily wordpress saved this as a draft so I didn’t lose it all! I had written it in Word but that only saved most of it, not all. So that’s all good and I’ll be posting some pics on flickr soon showing just how HUGE the raindrops are!

seeya!

Hey, sure has been a while since I’ve updated this hasn’t it? There’s been no excuse, just that I haven’t really bothered to sit at my computer long enough and write! But uni will be starting again soon so I’ll have plenty of time to update!

AT the moment I’m at my place by myself, just chillin’ and listening to DC Talk. It’s been a while since I’ve listened to them and I had forgotten how much I like their songs! When I was at Ev and Jo’s on Monday night, Ev had Jars of Clay playing (their self-titled album) and when I heard the songs it just took me back to another time and place completely! I could picture myself in my room in DeCarle St, curled up in front of my heater (as it was winter!) listening to the songs and trying to get over yet another crush that was to remain just that! I so have to get a copy of that album as it is also another one of my favourite cds, and at the moment I only have it on tape and my tape player in my stereo doesn’t work! 🙁 Don’t worry, I’ll live!

So what’s been happening? Well since the start of Jan, I’ve been working 2 days a week and just taking it easy and getting some things sorted out on the other days! Rich, my parents and I went to the tennis on day 4 as part of “The Heard”. That was a lot of fun, although we’ll have to make sure next time that we’re sitting in the middle (or thereabouts) and not next to people who have an interest only in being a part of the Heard, and not watching the tennis. I was very close to telling off the girls who were next to us! But other than that it was heaps of fun! Rich and I were able to score corporate tickets to Rod Laver, so we were able to get in and watch the last bit of Hewitt’s match. By the time we got in we only got to see the last game but it was still cool to say I’ve been in Rod Laver for the tennis!

Work hasn’t been too bad. My days are mostly filled with filing – we still have a backlog from when we acquired another firm and when we moved! Since Monday I’ve been working full time with the other 2 casuals as we have been destroying about half of the archiving that we have in storage! On Tuesday we chucked out 5 tonne of stuff, into the back of a truck in around 45 minutes! That was around 400 boxes weighing an average of 16kg EACH! Man, were we all tired that night or what!?! While it’s been fun to get out of the office, the novelty is really starting to wear off and we’re really starting to get sick of the tin shed! It gets quite warm after lunch and so our productivity drops greatly while the level of silliness goes up!

There’s also something else happening in the job world for me at the moment but as I don’t really know much at this stage, I’ll keep my mouth shut! But I’ll let you know what it is when I know more.

This weekend I’m off to join Richard at the beach! One of his friend’s have a holiday house there and Rich is already there! So I’ll be joining him tomorrow afternoon. Will be nice to have a break in somewhere that isn’t Horsham! And we haven’t really had a break/get-away these holidays so it’ll be nice. The weather will be perfect for it too which is good. Anyway, I’m outta here to wash the dishes and clean up before getting an early night as I have to be at work by 7:30am tomorrow!!

And as I have no idea who reads this, can you please leave a comment? Would be nice to know if anyone does actually read this!