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@tregeagle Oh, goodness, I have Thoughts. I've spent the last six months mostly absent from my U3A classes, and despite the enormous respect I have for the academics in my course, the model of industry-relevant job-ready tick-and-flick credentialism they have to work within is poisonous.

I'm increasingly convinced that the U3A peer-to-peer model is better. My course is as good as it gets, but I've not had a MS Teams tutorial as stimulating as a room full of smart, opinionated old biddies.

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@tregeagle Oh, goodness, I have Thoughts. I've spent the last six months mostly absent from my U3A classes, and despite the enormous respect I have for the academics in my course, the model of industry-relevant job-ready tick-and-flick credentialism they have to work within is poisonous.

I'm increasingly convinced that the U3A peer-to-peer model is better. My course is as good as it gets, but I've not had a MS Teams tutorial as stimulating as a room full of smart, opinionated old biddies.

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I think I'm pretty much done with my essay. It's startlingly similar to past essays, as the bees in my bonnet are well settled and show no signs of leaving.

But I believe I've identified the main villain. It's a bloke called Economic Policy Norm. A nasty piece of work, who's been terrorising this manor for nigh on forty years.

I reckon we've got to nab the geezer. Get him bang to rights in the act of slashing budgets and lifting interest rates.

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I think I'm pretty much done with my essay. It's startlingly similar to past essays, as the bees in my bonnet are well settled and show no signs of leaving.

But I believe I've identified the main villain. It's a bloke called Economic Policy Norm. A nasty piece of work, who's been terrorising this manor for nigh on forty years.

I reckon we've got to nab the geezer. Get him bang to rights in the act of slashing budgets and lifting interest rates.

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AFAICT, the difference between an essay and a case study is that instead of saying "In this essay, I will…", you say "In this case study, I will…"

That's pretty much it, isn't it?

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AFAICT, the difference between an essay and a case study is that instead of saying "In this essay, I will…", you say "In this case study, I will…"

That's pretty much it, isn't it?

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Nope. doesn't matter how loud I have the music. I can't do an all-night anything (sadly - though back in the day…). Up the little wooden hill to Bedfordshire with me.

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Nope. doesn't matter how loud I have the music. I can't do an all-night anything (sadly - though back in the day…). Up the little wooden hill to Bedfordshire with me.

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If I weren't biological I wouldn't need to go to the loo at all, except to check the state of my hair, which I need to do quite regularly anyway for self-esteem reasons. So all things being equal, I might as well just carry on being a biological woman.

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If I weren't biological I wouldn't need to go to the loo at all, except to check the state of my hair, which I need to do quite regularly anyway for self-esteem reasons. So all things being equal, I might as well just carry on being a biological woman.

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Was very biological today. Went to lavatory several times, as a biological person does. Didn't get any grief from any of the other biological people on the way in or out. Nobody accused me of not being biological. Can't really understand why they would, but apparently it's a thing that happens.

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Was very biological today. Went to lavatory several times, as a biological person does. Didn't get any grief from any of the other biological people on the way in or out. Nobody accused me of not being biological. Can't really understand why they would, but apparently it's a thing that happens.

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Damn. Got to Twist and Shout, and I've barely made a dent in it. It won't be long, yeah?

https://www. youtube.com/watch?v=UVKU6Sevef Y

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Damn. Got to Twist and Shout, and I've barely made a dent in it. It won't be long, yeah?

https://www. youtube.com/watch?v=UVKU6Sevef Y

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Got Los Lobos on instead.

https://www. youtube.com/watch?v=8phKeq_BFC c

Just building up to hearing Lennon screaming.

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Got Los Lobos on instead.

https://www. youtube.com/watch?v=8phKeq_BFC c

Just building up to hearing Lennon screaming.

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I watched the first bit of this at dinner.

https://www. youtube.com/watch?v=ihEEjwRlgh Q

So yes, to hell with box-ticking.I have to be authentic. If something has my name on it, it has to be good. I have to be happy with it. I am a near-perfectionist, and fugh the begrudgers.

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I watched the first bit of this at dinner.

https://www. youtube.com/watch?v=ihEEjwRlgh Q

So yes, to hell with box-ticking.I have to be authentic. If something has my name on it, it has to be good. I have to be happy with it. I am a near-perfectionist, and fugh the begrudgers.

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Woah. It's late, I'm pissed, and I still haven't finished the essay thingy due tomorrow. I long ago realised that I missed the point of what I was supposed to do, but here we are. I've the substance of it, so I can squeeze it into a word processor, put in the charts and tables, and do all the referencing while carrying on drinking.

I've been thinking about music. I think it may have to be the Beatles. From beginning to end. Then spring out of bed at dawn to finish writing the blasted thing.

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Woah. It's late, I'm pissed, and I still haven't finished the essay thingy due tomorrow. I long ago realised that I missed the point of what I was supposed to do, but here we are. I've the substance of it, so I can squeeze it into a word processor, put in the charts and tables, and do all the referencing while carrying on drinking.

I've been thinking about music. I think it may have to be the Beatles. From beginning to end. Then spring out of bed at dawn to finish writing the blasted thing.

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@Lucia …and the world has been that much brighter and more delightful ever since! Congratulations and thank you for your contribution to the wonderfulness of the world.

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@Lucia …and the world has been that much brighter and more delightful ever since! Congratulations and thank you for your contribution to the wonderfulness of the world.

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For so long it's been too cold to open the windows. Suddenly now it's too hot to open them. Well done skipping Spring entirely, #Melbourne. I'm very impressed.

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For so long it's been too cold to open the windows. Suddenly now it's too hot to open them. Well done skipping Spring entirely, #Melbourne. I'm very impressed.

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I really never expected to be a positive affirmations person. Ages ago, at the top of the shopping list text file on my phone that reminds me to buy the same things I always buy at the supermarket, I wrote "Katy is brave, brilliant, and beautiful". No idea why. It usually doesn't even register in my consciousness that it's there.

I was really grateful for it yesterday morning. And I went on to have a pretty good day, all things considered.

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I really never expected to be a positive affirmations person. Ages ago, at the top of the shopping list text file on my phone that reminds me to buy the same things I always buy at the supermarket, I wrote "Katy is brave, brilliant, and beautiful". No idea why. It usually doesn't even register in my consciousness that it's there.

I was really grateful for it yesterday morning. And I went on to have a pretty good day, all things considered.

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@tillybridges I just consulted with the Internet, and it said it definitely needs more pictures of your cat.

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@tillybridges I just consulted with the Internet, and it said it definitely needs more pictures of your cat.

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@dfstarshine I don't know what it's like now, but when I was in my twenties, Windows would accumulate cruft and get intolerably slow, so every six months you'd have to reinstall from scratch.

I'd bought the Win95 upgrade disk, so twice a year I'd reformat the C: partition, install DOS (3 floppies), Win 3.1 (8 floppies), Win95, and then finally all the software I actually used. Insane.

The whole house of cards depended on the integrity of those floppies. 1.44MB each. Crazy.

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@dfstarshine I don't know what it's like now, but when I was in my twenties, Windows would accumulate cruft and get intolerably slow, so every six months you'd have to reinstall from scratch.

I'd bought the Win95 upgrade disk, so twice a year I'd reformat the C: partition, install DOS (3 floppies), Win 3.1 (8 floppies), Win95, and then finally all the software I actually used. Insane.

The whole house of cards depended on the integrity of those floppies. 1.44MB each. Crazy.