Designing whilst Midterming

Take a look. New design. Not a sin­gle graphic serves as a struc­tural or con­tent ele­ment. Every piece is in type. I have addi­tional bits of type-based ele­ments I’m going to toss into the works, but — after midterms.

I’ve oodles of bugs to work through with var­i­ous nooks and cran­nies, and I need to recon­struct the archives and cat­e­gories in full, but — after midterms.

I’ve a midterm exam due tonight — two and a half hours on Old Testament his­tory. This has been one of the most inter­est­ing courses I’ve had in a long time.  I’m draft­ing up out­lines right and left, watch­ing lec­tures, etc. I’ve two book cri­tiques I want to fin­ish this week as well.

I’m hor­ri­ble at this dis­tance class con­cept. I delib­er­ately chose a pro­gram which demands just as rig­or­ous a sched­ule as an on-campus pro­gram, and it’s still a fan­tas­tic way to fill a year over­seas. The result is some­thing much closer to the British tuto­r­ial sys­tem. Independent dili­gence is not my strong suit! The inter­net isn’t mak­ing things any eas­ier. The con­nec­tion here in town, thanks to the rainy sea­son, is skip­ping out con­stantly. I’ll get online after much tedium, it’ll be dirt slow, and then it’ll dis­ap­pear again. Not great for Blackboard and its hog­ging of the broadly bandy­ing net-wit. Here’s hop­ing I keep the net long enough to take the test!

In real­ity, I’m lucky that so much of South America has inter­net at all…