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   Morning Updates...

Hey all... Wonder how long I can keep this regular diary thing up? I feel absolutely wretched this morning, primarily due to a lack of sleep.

So, today's updates: I pretty much got the last of the conference details sorted or delegated, save for the fugly title graphic. I'd link to the temp site, but that'd get me into troubule.

For large chunks of last year I was working part-time on a teaching development program in which we were using an audience response system (remote control keypads) to ask students multiple choice questions during classes. The idea being that by getting them to (anonymously) answer questions you get students more involved in the class and they're more likely to study and pass the course. Well, I'm still involved in this stuff for a few more months (until the money runs out), and today's great news is that the software to drive these things is finally available for Macs!
While this sadly means that I now need to put MS Office on Minako (my iBook G4, can't remember if I ever blogged about her), it also means that happily I don't have to spend my weekends suffering on the PC. I think this means it might be time to copy over the last of my files and give Asuka back to James.

My love for CLAMP continues to grow after I read the spoilers for the next arc of Tsubasa (whee! Fye-sama!!!! *dances*). It's almost enough to make me start reading fan-translations rather than waiting for Del Rey to hurry up and get up to date (then again, a check of their website tells me that there's another volume due out this month - ah, I'll forgive them for now).

Speaking of manga, Del Rey has released a one-volume shoujo manga of Train Man, based upon the Densha Otoko story. Thought James might like that link. Actually, James will probably also like this story about events in Second Life (sadly not involving any flying penises).

And Brendan has convinced me that I should become a slashfan for the Domus Prime novel. It's all his fault. Fortunately I have no desire to write fanfic slashing my favourite characters together yet, but I'm definitely going to squee over the fanart he drew for me. I'll post it once here once he scans it for me.

Now I think I ought to start pretending to work. Bleh, I still feel crappy and hungover.

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