Huzzah for technology, the bane of our existence!

Well, I've been working on this video for a decent chunk of my free time today; as it was raining outside I thought an indoor activity was the smart choice. Yup, we are finally getting some solid English weather. I don't mind if it would be kind enough to let up for the field trip we have (yes another one) on Wednesday to Winchester which should be lovely even if the weather chooses not to co-operate.

I have some reading to do, which is something of both an overstatement and an understatement the way they do things here.  Essentially, we're told that we'll be discussing something that has a text attached to the idea and it is suggested that we 'may want to look at it' rather than actually assigned.  I have the strong feeling that these 'may' suggestions should be read as imperatives rather than suggestions, though some of the students who have been here before say that isn't strictly so.  In any case, it is a bit of a muddle when you don't know what exactly the correct (or rather expected) amount of preparedness you should have by a given time.  I say by a given time because we won't be tested on this until month end (along with everything else, essay format) and a paper about it won't come due until much later - the end of term actually, though it was once again 'suggested' that we have it done by month end to dust off later.

For students who are used to structured deadlines and requirements this is definitely an 'enough rope to hang yourself' situation.  Never fear though, I am on it.  That said, it would be impossible (yes even for me, freak of the book though I am) to read everything that will be touched upon in discussion over the next month - which they told us outright is not expected.  What is NOT expected seems to come up much more frequently than what IS expected.

Meanwhile, I have compiled the video from Gloucester Cathedral and Berkeley Castle (precious little there was of the Castle too, as they do not permit photography indoors - though I did get one room before that was mentioned).  Once again the computer is giving me a bit of a fit about the whole affair - hence the title of this post having such a rosy outlook on our technological world and its gizmos - so if it is fussy for you I apologise, but I'm not going to revisit the issue unless some empty time crops up.  I hope it behaves because I did take a good bit of time to get it to something watchable out of the many clips of video I took - it is about 10 minutes long, which I realise may tax the attention span but there was a lot to see.

With the music I intended, but with some slide glitches

On YouTube with replacement music (I must be the only person in the world who doesn't know how to code my way around copywrite issues) - The swap is "in progress" now, I assume it will be done sometime in the future.