It’s been a while since I wrote anything – so what’s happened.
Not much really, people are looking to buy a new Theatre Lighting desk
to replace the Arri. We went too look at a Strand 300 Series and we
think that might be good but we still need to look at others before
ruling them out.
We had a Dramsoc social in the Holland club on Tuesday. I went home on
Wednesday and did very little and on Thursday I went to Union
Council. I went to council to set up radio Mic’s and record it onto
mini-disc (for Dramsoc rather than my own personal pleasure). Since I
was there I decided to stay there and observe. It was interesting (in
a slightly weird way). This council was a bit of a fight really as
most of the candidates were there to ‘add’ to the discussion on the
recent election events. It’s quite surprising what some people will do
in order to get elected.
Being my own site – here are my own views. I would express them on
Live! but I wouldn’t want to
give the Editors any more of a headache from Editing comments.
Darius (a candidate for Felix Editor) complained about the recent
articles in Felix on the Bike racks and 24/7 hr Libraries. Dave
Edwards (another candidate) wrote these. Darius complianed basically
that they were political and affected the election. He seemed eager to
point out that his own articles and those of the third candidate were
a-political and not connected to the election – pretty much what one
would expect of a Science or Puzzle section really, but not of a News
section. In my opinion it was nothing more than attempt to
disadvantage another candidate.
There were also complaints from various people connected to the
candidates belonging to the Socialist W
Smith seemed to be trying to get Mustafa disqualified from the
elections leaving his mate Ameet Bahkta the only candidate standing
for President. What Mustafa wrote in Felix was maybe foolish but I
don’t believe it was with malice or an attempt to gain an unfair
advantage.
Ameet was also at the meeting. He was quite forceful during the
meeting and seemed to know what he was doing. I couldn’t follow his
line of thought though. He appeared to be arguing some very strange
combinations of points. He also got quite worked up. The meeting
dragged on and eventually most things were resolved. One last issue
remained but at around 11:30 when they were about to vote on this last
issue Andrew Smith (a former DPE&W himself) asked about Quorum. As it
turned out there was one too few people and the meeting was
finished. Ameet seemed miffed to say the least. So much so that he
called Andrew Smith “f**king *nal” through the Microphones (and as it
happens the minidisc was still recording too). Not particularly
impressive for a potential President. Long reign Mustafa is what I say
(well one more year anyway).
Now on the the topic of this post – Motivation of several kinds.
Firstly I really need to get on with my final year project. Today went
well in that sense. I have been finding doing any work on it quite
hard but I’m starting to make progress and I’m getting to the point
where I’ve got something to work with rather than a blank (electronic)
page.
Secondly – why am I writing the blog (as a whole, rather than just
this entry)? I got asked this by Mark in the Holland Club on Tuesday. The opinion was expressed
that people that kept blogs used to keep diaries but were disappointed
no-body read them. I have tried on several occasions to keep diaries
to very little success. As one of my first post may or may not have
said every single diary without fail lasted less than a few entries. I
normally decided that everything I had written was pretentious rubbish
and tore it up. I’m not quite sure why this has lasted so long. Ah
well, never mind, I’m sure it’ll go soon.
