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kyrasantae
I went to the Secondary Education orientation presentation today. Most of the talking was done by people from the student services office, and I just wanted to note that they really really really made a big deal about being around to support students in any situation, from academics to personal issues. Even if they turn out to be empty words, they are words at least spoken.
That's the kind of assurance I never got in Engineering >_>
Hmm. I need some happy userpics, so I've uploaded some Beijing Olympics mascot pics.
In other news, I've ordered a crap load of stuff, which is coming in the mail in the next few weeks! I hope my flatmates don't mind the mailman sounding the door buzzer so often.
I've so far received the Ö-deck for Agricola, a big box of Finnish goodies, and the Friberg verse* translation of Kalevala (yes, the exact same book involved in the Antonuk saga)** and the graphic novel version of same. Both are illustrated and are the same translation, but the graphic novel is abridged and its artwork features a lot of downcast eyes and people sitting on chairs/beds/boats and standing around looking kind of dejected***.
Coming soon will be more goodies for the Agricola game, a print of a fan-made expansion to Pandemic, and something else COMPLETELY cheesy which I'll... only mention when I get it, because I'll probably have forgotten about it by then. (Hey, I can be cheesy when it's free for the cost of shipping!) It's nice to have a little money in PayPal to drop for little things like this.
Oh yeah, there's a few more "Finnish goodies" coming soon too.
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* "Verse" as in rhythmic, not as in rhyming. Well, it's not really all that rhythmic either, but it's not paragraphs and prose, nor forced back into the original meter.
** I should laminate the dust jacket, now that I have legitimate access to the print shop in the basement of the Education building (not to say that I would be using it for "legitimate" purposes, i.e. instructional materials).
*** Cover and sample page here, which, sadly, doesn't show any people standing on boats but some of those dejected, stoic faces. The style throughout is very dark like that and a little gritty, which seems kind of typical of epic graphic novels these days. Which kind of makes sense for the kind of story it is. The original Finnish edition was in two parts and therefore had more awesome colour covers.
That's the kind of assurance I never got in Engineering >_>
Hmm. I need some happy userpics, so I've uploaded some Beijing Olympics mascot pics.
In other news, I've ordered a crap load of stuff, which is coming in the mail in the next few weeks! I hope my flatmates don't mind the mailman sounding the door buzzer so often.
I've so far received the Ö-deck for Agricola, a big box of Finnish goodies, and the Friberg verse* translation of Kalevala (yes, the exact same book involved in the Antonuk saga)** and the graphic novel version of same. Both are illustrated and are the same translation, but the graphic novel is abridged and its artwork features a lot of downcast eyes and people sitting on chairs/beds/boats and standing around looking kind of dejected***.
Coming soon will be more goodies for the Agricola game, a print of a fan-made expansion to Pandemic, and something else COMPLETELY cheesy which I'll... only mention when I get it, because I'll probably have forgotten about it by then. (Hey, I can be cheesy when it's free for the cost of shipping!) It's nice to have a little money in PayPal to drop for little things like this.
Oh yeah, there's a few more "Finnish goodies" coming soon too.
_________
* "Verse" as in rhythmic, not as in rhyming. Well, it's not really all that rhythmic either, but it's not paragraphs and prose, nor forced back into the original meter.
** I should laminate the dust jacket, now that I have legitimate access to the print shop in the basement of the Education building (not to say that I would be using it for "legitimate" purposes, i.e. instructional materials).
*** Cover and sample page here, which, sadly, doesn't show any people standing on boats but some of those dejected, stoic faces. The style throughout is very dark like that and a little gritty, which seems kind of typical of epic graphic novels these days. Which kind of makes sense for the kind of story it is. The original Finnish edition was in two parts and therefore had more awesome colour covers.
