general stuff
May. 6th, 2008 08:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thedarkprojectMy Bank Holiday weekend was a lot tamer than I had hoped for, with me finding myself indoors doing nothing most of the time. Saturday night in Sheffield was a good exception though, and apart from the organisation getting there being a bit of a shambles, everybody seemed to have a good time. The highlights for me might be that I nearly injured one of the myriad of Other Bens with an elite karaté move, I met up with Internet Friend Dora briefly, and I managed to survive spilling a fair bit of Lucozade on my trousers with no hope of being able to wash it out. Ace. Chris also had to fend off an over-amorous girlie between necking about 15 alcoholic milkshakes, which was funny.
Our current project at work is on the front page of Eurogamer at the moment; the article itself is here. It's been quite interesting to see how people in the office see what they want to see in that preview - the optimists see a good write-up, and the pessimists see the opposite.
I am very much enjoying the nice weather we're having at the moment. Such a shame I'm stuck indoors almost all the time though. No doubt it'll start snowing again soon, just as the social invitations ramp up again.
Anybody had much experience with trying to teach themselves languages? I'm finding that the 'Teach Yourself Whatever' books don't really work for me, possibly because the emphasis there seems to be on hearing and speaking and I am useless at remembering sounds and even worse at trying to verbally reproduce them. I think I fare a lot better with the writing and reading approach with verb lists and conjugations and so on, but even that might not work when I don't have actual lessons, tests, and the like. Hmm.
Our current project at work is on the front page of Eurogamer at the moment; the article itself is here. It's been quite interesting to see how people in the office see what they want to see in that preview - the optimists see a good write-up, and the pessimists see the opposite.
I am very much enjoying the nice weather we're having at the moment. Such a shame I'm stuck indoors almost all the time though. No doubt it'll start snowing again soon, just as the social invitations ramp up again.
Anybody had much experience with trying to teach themselves languages? I'm finding that the 'Teach Yourself Whatever' books don't really work for me, possibly because the emphasis there seems to be on hearing and speaking and I am useless at remembering sounds and even worse at trying to verbally reproduce them. I think I fare a lot better with the writing and reading approach with verb lists and conjugations and so on, but even that might not work when I don't have actual lessons, tests, and the like. Hmm.
