Tag: Uni

Hello,Guten Tag, Salut,,Ciao, Dzien Dobry,Hey,Hi,How are ya?

This is my ninth Blog post(closed for business and last weeks don’t count so it’s technically the 7th i”ll be graded on so lets get to it.

The Website

I feel like I’ve been pretty vague about my website over the past couple of weeks,saying things but not of any meaning, this here,is where that changes.I’m a day away from completing it,I’ve got about 5 more sub-pages to write up and then it’s 100%,the last 5 will be light on text so it’ll be a doddle tomorrow.

The Process

As I’ve said before the idea of the website is to create a website for the School,Pencey Prep(A location in J.D Sallinger’s Catcher in the Rye), i had very little to go on from the book,a couple names,a a vague location and no real description of the school,so all that was left to me.

I started visiting all kinds of schools(from primary to university) websites and noted what they all had in common, the layout,heading and text of nearly everything on the website is a paragon of all the buzz words and pompous shite,you find on any school website. It was fun to collect notes for it and write it up, the text found on the website, i feel is supposed to be intentionally boring and elitist,much like the sense and mood, Holden describes it as in the novel.

I was halfway through my first draft of the website when i scraped the whole thing, a few weeks work was to me now useless,a bad layout and a Frankenstein’s monster of text that sounded horrible. So i started over found a new layout and took the monster of text and compressed it into my own words and well way of structuring.

All the images found on the Site come from Pexels.com, a royalty free image hosting site that allows free use of any image without the need to reference the text,the amount of images are limited but it just had enough that i could space them out over the Site.

Everything Else

Sub-editing is over, another 50% assesment. We all should be fine i’d imagine. Most of us did well in InDesign so we don’t need that much marks to pass the module

I’ve taken a break from history from the time being,i’ll be starting my essay in the coming days

With english,i’m just getting as much reading done as i can in the next few days and slowly laying out my essay.

And i’m still Exempt from radio

Conclusion

I’d normaly have my recommandations now but i’ve had a change of plans,with everything being more or less done now. There isn’t much point waiting til next week, so i’ll post my final post of the Semester Tommorow. Where i’ll discuss the semester as a whole,the people along the way and my main take aways from a year in University.

For those that have read all of these, i’d like to say sorry,thank you and Dog Bless you.

Goodbye,Auf Wiedersehen, Au Revior, Ciao, Do Widzenia,See ya,good luck, mind yourself because someone out there loves ya, but it ain’t me kid.

Seán

Ding!Ding!Ding!Ding!Ding!Ding!Ding!Ding!Ding!Ding!

Welcome To the Blog’s Covid-19 Special! Wooooooo! (I Might be dead by next week) Woo!

A little context before we begin, as it’s easter week, and in the guidelines it says we don’t have to write one for this week, i’m going completly off book, not mentioning what i’ve done and use this post as a scarttering of my general thoughts and feelings surrounding COVID-19 and some peoples impending doom, this post visually will be like as a Paintball Shotgun shot to a white wall.

Now to provide a bit of structure, here’s morpheous

Hit Me!

So now, with you taking the Red Pill, lets talk about the bad, and oh boy, there’s lots to discuss. At time of writing(here in Ireland) we’ve been under lockdown for almost a month now, on the one hand the month has gone by pretty quickly, on the other, it’s been a month. A month where i have tried to soak in as much information about this as possible, one of my first thoughts being,”oh seán, you were so very wrong about this” that being my mistake in judging the scale of this, initially back in January, when it was just Sars’ Faster but weaker younger brother. The initial response from a collection of the biggest nations in the west, was…..how shall i put it…. Fucked. The initial couple weeks with Boris and Donald dragging their heals to doing the right thing, this speech from Larry Kramer, a Aids activist in the 1980s kept getting recycled in my head, he ends his plea for greater activism and awareness with the brutality pessimistic line “If we don’t get our act together,We are as good. as. dead. 

Now i know the scale of both disease aren’t similar  but the generational impact is the same, this is something that defines a lifetime, ” I was there, when i happened” “When i was young i lived through a pandemic”, Covid-19 creates this reaction because for the first time in mine and in many others lives, not ever have we seen something of this scale that the world grinds to a halt, a biblical event. People dying by the thousands everyday, it truly is a dark time, a time where our world is shown how fickle it is and how one action can trigger the stagnation of 7.7 billion people.

One positive in this section and (get your pitchforks and torches ready) has been here,us,Ireland. It’s this sort of response that make me glad that i voted Fine Gael, i believe and i know this isn’t the time to get political but i believe that if he handles the rest of this pandemic as well as he’s handled it so far, i’d put money on Simon Harris becoming Taoiseach some day.

Now i’m paranoid at the best of times but oh boy, this month has been emotional,on top of me believing i have the disease every time i sneeze and my mother coming down with a chest infection, while out at work it’s certainly been emotional

Okay, now with my paranoria out of the way, lets get down to facts,current projections and other minor stuff

So let’s jump back out of the rabbit whole and take the other pill

So, on the other hand, or in the other pill. Let’s try and inject a bit of reason into this, that usually helps. So with all i can gather the best estimate that i can make is that my the end of the month of April, we should see (if the measures put in place have worked) the number of active cases in Ireland peak and start to decline.

Based on the numbers and graphs on –https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ (Which has been the only thing keeping my sane for the last month)

The hardest hit areas like Italy and Spain are right now hitting their peak. Germany,Austria,Austrailia and New Zealand and South Korea at the moment are seeing a steady/but slow decline.

While the States,Belgium,France,the UK and us are weeks away from potentially hitting their peak.

There is still no conformation, if a second wave it going to hit. I’ve seen a lot of theories but until they’re concrete i don’t think about them. The theory i’m most worried about,(it’s a theory,so i could be bull,we’re not sure yet) is that of china(that man has provided me with so much laughter and paranoia over the last month) and whether or not the numbers they’re realising are correct, now all numbers aren’t correct,there are cases that aren’t and will never be counted to the data isn’t air tight but the numbers coming out of china about how quickly the outbreak has decreased are, well…..

And that’s just about it i suppose,still working,still reading, still breathing.

To end here’s my weekly recommendations.

For those my age that have seen “The Lighhouse”, you’re welcome.

For a Movie recommendation, about good journalism,here’s a scene from “Spotlight”

Aaaaand for the theme tune for this whole Pandemic and my sign off for this week. Ladies, Gentelman and all the rest….R.E.M.

I hope you are doing well, i hope you are healthy and i hope you’ll come back next week to read more about me. CaUsE i’M SpEcIaL……..

Mind Yourself

Seán

Hey,tis me,tis you,TIS US COMRADE!,welcome back

I regret to inform you that due to the radically informal nature and self-deprecating content found on this blog, the author of the blog, Seán Finnan(known idiot), has been taken into custody and will stand trial on account of his crimes against the English language. The author pleads guilty to his crimes on the sole request that i,Pierre Murphy, carry on his messages and tell you what he has been doing. He wrote me this letter for you, his readers, that i will now recite *Coughs* Ahem!…….

“Good morning,noon or night, dear readers. I hope you followed up on my advice last week and kept yourself busy, what have i been doing….. well to paraphrase the rest of my class…. not much. I have been working though, because what else am i going to do, even if i plan to do nothing, with all this time on my hands i’m bound to do something productive now and again, because even a broken clock is right twice a day.”

Hey, Pierre here, my god does this guy ever shut up and get to the point,these things are supposed to be 300 words and he’s talking to himself,it’s not like he gets comments or anything,sheesh, get to the bloody point. Sorry,i’ll continue with his letter.

“To get down to the nitty gritty, y’know, the brass tax, the bottom line, the business end. I’ve been juggling work from each module over the past handful of days, which is ironic because, i can’t juggle shit,like not actual shit but you get what i mean..”

Pierre again,here he goes again,bad humour, informal language and does he think he’s funny when he breaks the fourth wall,c’mon seán,it’s not like you’ve invented the wheel, move on.

“…..So work, i started the week re-reading 12th Night and Macbeth to get the gears moving and they were both better the second time round. I took in a lot more information and was able to start putting together some points that’ll be my main focuses for my essay.”

“Speaking of essays, more reading about Louis XIV and female life in 17th France, Woo!!! Aren’t you pumped just by the sound of it…. no?…. well neither was i, reading and extracting points from texts isn’t a enjoyable time by any means but in terms of history it’s what i get the most marks for, so hey i’m doing something right at least.”

“And last but not least,The Website. My god the website. A couple things one, as said in last week i created socials for my fictitious school, the thing is that i’m pretty sure that my facebook page for this school is what caused my own facebook page to be hacked and was for a very short space and time that largest advertising page for RayBan sunglasses this side of the Atlantic, with prices slashed by 90% off, who wouldn’t believe the scam that was being hosted on my page. So needless to say, my website’s facebook page is currently 404. That was the downside, the upside is that i was able to get a large chunk of the writing done for the pages, i re stylized the website because i couldn’t get everything to fall into place but i found a new one that does and now as one of my culchie friends would say(Xan or James) take your pick,” “We’re Sucking Diesel now Boss!” “

“That all the coursework out of the way i just want to end on a little message, over the past few weeks,i’ve noticed that me(yes, this ol cunt) has been mentioned directly and indiretly in other people’s blogs, with the general jist being about how helpful i am, how great i am, how i’m an angel, a good friend, y;know a very positive image has been painted of me and i just want to set the record straight that i am none of any of these things,that’s right folks, these people are publishing fake news about me being a good person and i hope i’ve opened your eyes, that me, Seán Vincent Pierre Finnan, am not and has never been, an angle.”

“I (and i can’t stress how true this is) am a gowl.”

“Mind yourself,good luck,god bless and look after yourselves you complete shower of piss witches.”

Seán

P.S. I’ve decided to add a new feature to this blog, every week i’ll link a few things, a video to give ya chuckle, a song and a recommendation(Film or otherwise)

No.1 – Spiders on Drugs(It’s a bona fide classic)

https://youtu.be/sHzdsFiBbFc

No.2 – Sur Mon ile de Reve

https://youtu.be/BSheQfJ6djo

No.3 – The Iron Giant.

I don’t care how you do it just go find this film and watch it,it packs a hell of a punch, more than 3 year old me could handle,or even now honestly.

Right, that’s the end of his letter,his trial and definite execution isn’t until the end of April so, i’ll be sticking around the next couple of weeks.

Au Revoir,

Pierre

 

Ahhhhh it’s good so good to be back, either that or i’ve cracked even sooner than i thought i would.I hope you enjoyed your time in the parisian cell,if you didn’t get that, go back and read the last post you absoulte melted choc-ice. The last two weeks have been ahhhh, what’s the word i’m looking for……Turbulent, yes, it’s been turbulent. The Second week went alot quicker than the first week did. Those first few days of adapting into staying at home and no college were painfully uneventful. But this blog isn’t about what i haven’t done *COUGH* *COUGH* Mooney’s Moans *COUGH* *COUGH* it’s about what i have done. So what have i done? Well…………..

Well for one i finished my History Assignment, it goes to show that if you’re highlight of the week is reading about monarchy in 17th century France, then it hasn’t been a great week, well for me anyway. I’m positive that there would be people who’d love nothing but to read about Louis XIV and his many mistresses til the fecking cows came home, so who am i to judge. So that’s history dealt with anyway.

For English, i’ve just been prepping for the essay that i’ll start to work on next week, no major developments(or minor ones for that matter) here.

Actually no, i’ll have to go back on what i said about the reading being my 2 week highlight, because that came on March 24th with my first Big Blue Button lecture and oh boy, was it something. As a huge fan of The Office(Not the american one,the actual funny one) i find awkwardness and being cringey so funny( Which is why i must myself so funny hahahahhaiwanttodiehahahahah), so for parts of the lecture i couldn’t stop myself from laughing. An hour and a half wasted it most certainly was not.

Radio’s still radio,still exempt so it’s all good.

For TW, what i’ve been doing, apart from writing this very blog,that you’re reading right now. (Loyal followers and long time readers of the blog will probably have just recognized that i’ve all ready used this meta joke already. So why am i repeating it? The answer is clear, I’m painfully unfunny.) But other than that TW been nothing but website design, i came across the idea while re-reading catcher in the rye(which for those familiar with it, would probably have noticed Holden as the logo of this blog in the tab). So yeah, re-reading catcher when( just like a Frisbee getting much too close) it hit me. My website idea(not the Frisbee). My idea for the website is to create a website for the boarding school Pencey Prep, that Holden is a student of at the start of the book. I’ve got the homepage done and i’m working through writing content for each page. It’s been kinda fun actually,what wasn’t fun however was creating fictitious twitter,Facebook and Myspace pages, yes you didn’t blink, A MYSPACE PAGE. I even wrote and created tweets and Facebook posts and whatever they had on Myspace about the school and school announcements. I’ve fucking worked hard for this website. Watch me die of corona or some shit now before i publish it because that would just sum me the fuck right up. I’m a lot more aggressive this week if you couldn’t tell and for that i apologize.

I hope your surviving better than me dear readers. If you are, then i envy you. If you aren’t, sorry, there isn’t much i can do. All i can say is that if you’ve got a dog- go pet it. If you’ve got alcohol – Drink it. If you’ve got Netflix or Disney+ – watch it. If you’re bored and like football – football manger is free until April 15th. And if you’ve got none of the them..well then you kinda fucked. And on that bombshell i’ll end it there.

Mind yourself, god bless and have a wonderful week, you absolute wheelbarrow of gowls.

Seán