I am sitting in the computer room at the uni. Got the three one hour lectures out of the way for the morning. They have been interesting, giving me new things to think about, or new ways to think about things I already know. One of the lectures was talking about language and text, including graphics. I think the guy is being paid by Microsoft, he talked on and on about their latest ads. He was talking about looking at text and graphics, and the instinctive deciphering that happens when we look at things. All the lectures were saying today that a picture or a graph is not self explanatory, you need text to go with it, and prior knowledge about the things in it to understand it.

I have a meeting to finalise classes and hopefully sort out the placement, but I am running out of time before school holidays start for the highschools. If there are no city placements left, I am thinking of taking a country placement, I could do it in Shepparton, back at good old Wanganui, (not shepp high, I don't think) I could do it at Echuca too, or any of the neighbouring cities. We'll see where they suggest.

The house in Melbourne has been so busy over the weekend. I am looking forward to the visitors all going home so that I can have some quiet and things back to normal. I have had a great time with my sister Jill over the weekend, we cruised around the city, taking photos for her art projects and we went to the beach and swam and laid in the sun for a while. We shared a bed for the weekend, and as a sign about how we have grown up, we no longer have trouble sleeping in the same bed, We used to have to have pillows down the middle to seperate us, so we wouldn't kick eachother in the middle of the night.

Anyway, time for lunch. Yum, pumpkin soup.