Whether the Weather be: Sunny breaks (55F/13C)
In the News: Oil industry safety record exposed (Source: The Guardian online)
Events of Note: Unit 4: Reading/DB
* Today's agenda? Mostly catching up on what was missed throughout the first half of my week, including running our household. Three hours of housework, but I think that I've (finally) broken the back of the mess and dis-organized chaos. I greatly dislike being dis-organized. It's the thin end of a sticky wedge with so much else...Like, trying to keep a timetable and my sanity, simultaneously!.
* If you read my blog for long enough, you may come to realize that I pull my news and current affairs content for my blog from a range of daily sources. I'm something of a news 'junkie'. My mother's career was in the newspaper industry. She was the first person in the Southern Hemisphere to receive pictures off the news wire of the first man walking on the Moon, which she edited and compiled into a special, illustrative edition for the large, metropolitan daily newspaper where she was working at the time. So, I got 'bitten' by the news 'bug' early on!. I landed my first job copywriting advertising for a community-based radio station at the tender age of 16. At that same radio station, I also took on adminstrative, radio production and music programming duties. And you wonder why I love music?. After graduating high school, I went on to technical college and completed an industry-based course in media and marketing studies. That year and the following one, I picked up a minor (lowly paid) historical researching and writing job for a community organization. Poorly paid work or not, what it taught me was the value of archiving, documenting and summarizing secondary sources. Of the importance of preserving the integrity of the historical narrative by sticking to the facts, and of not introducing stereotypical or social biases into my writing. But, more on that part later on in another entry for this week's Unit 4 Blog Response.
* In the early hours of this morning, I did go back and add more into the body of my own book manuscript. Since I'm initially planning on self-publishing, I'm tentatively thinking that I want to put in pictures into my template first, followed by my text. Decisions, decisions!.
* Time to spend a late afternoon at the KU Library. If I calculated how many hours that I've spent or am spending in libraries during my academic career.....!.
