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strange_complexGiven that I have complete and up-to-date copies of my book on:
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redkitty23 next term on The Operas of Handel arrived today. I'm very excited! It tells us what operas we'll be covering each week, and there's a recommended reading list as well.
This means that I can now see that, thanks to superhuman CD-copying efforts over the past couple of months, I have indeed successfully acquired copies of most of the major works we'll be studying. In fact, over a 10-week course, there's only 3 weeks for which I don't have at least some of the appropriate listening material. So that's good - I can listen to the relevant operas in preparation, and read the right bits of the books, and turn up with a big, swotty 'I did my homework' grin on my face. :)
And homework is right, because we also have to do worksheets each week, to 'consolidate' what we've learned in class. We can even do an essay if we want! (Although I'm not sure I'll actually go that far - I may have finished my book by then, but I have a paper queuing up to be written, too.)
But yay! I am going to be a student again! How amusing.
- My hard-drive
- A CD
- My Yahoo email account
- The Warwick University server
In other news, the materials for the course I'm going to be doing with
redkitty23 next term on The Operas of Handel arrived today. I'm very excited! It tells us what operas we'll be covering each week, and there's a recommended reading list as well.This means that I can now see that, thanks to superhuman CD-copying efforts over the past couple of months, I have indeed successfully acquired copies of most of the major works we'll be studying. In fact, over a 10-week course, there's only 3 weeks for which I don't have at least some of the appropriate listening material. So that's good - I can listen to the relevant operas in preparation, and read the right bits of the books, and turn up with a big, swotty 'I did my homework' grin on my face. :)
And homework is right, because we also have to do worksheets each week, to 'consolidate' what we've learned in class. We can even do an essay if we want! (Although I'm not sure I'll actually go that far - I may have finished my book by then, but I have a paper queuing up to be written, too.)
But yay! I am going to be a student again! How amusing.
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Date: Wednesday, 29 March 2006 11:44 (UTC)but... what if yahoo goes pffft, your PC blows up, your CD is defective and Warwick Uni suddenly disappears into the depths of the space-time continuum (or, perhaps worse, turns into a small bowl of petunias)
Back it up, back it up again, then back it up a third time. Print off a copy and hide it in a bank vault...
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Date: Wednesday, 29 March 2006 11:51 (UTC)I might succumb to the temptation of emailing it to myself on another couple of accounts, though. That has the great advantage of meaning that it's physically in more than one place, so that, say, if my house burnt down and both PC and CD were reduced to charred, melty lumps, my book would still be safe.
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Date: Wednesday, 29 March 2006 11:54 (UTC)When my friend Anna was working on her PhD, she turned up at my house clutching a bunch of floppy disks, 'just in case'
Burn copies of the disc and give it to all your friends!
I've got a backup of my digital photos on CDs, on a spare HD in the PC at home, and on the PC here. I'm wondering how to get the ones off here (given they have all the Leeds photos etc, which didn't make it home) and where to put them next...