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razornet has been unwell recently - asthma-type wheeziness and coughing, keeping him (and me!) awake half the night. cam.misc today suggests many people in Cambridge are having similar problems, perhaps due to pollen, low-level ozone, humidity or fungus spores and dust in the atmosphere. In an effort to remove possible dust from his atmosphere, I have cleaned the flat top to bottom this morning. Now I am very dusty :-( I hope it helps.
Partly this is displacement activity - it seems I would actually rather sweep floors and scrub sinks than do the marking I'm supposed to do! Also, there are several other absorbing things that I ought to do, though not so urgently as the marking, which I expect I will allow to take priority over the marking until the last possible moment. The most interesting of these is working through Halliday's Introduction to Functional Grammar and Martin, Matthiessen and Painter's Working with Functional Grammar - this is the most appealing because it is new linguistic stuff. The other thing is working through the preparatory materials for my forthcoming Maths course - this is interesting, but not quite so interesting as functional grammar, because it's all stuff I once knew, and vaguely remember, so it doesn't have novelty; also, it's possible that I just find linguistic things intrinsically more interesting than mathematical things (although, the levels at which I'm studying them are very different - I might find higher-level Maths much more interesting once I can understand it!). The marking is sort of mid-level very familiar linguistic stuff, however, and having marked half a dozen scripts, I feel I've largely exhausted any excitement or novelty that might be found in answers to this particular question - however, I still have at least twenty more scripts to mark on the same topic.
razornet has been unwell recently - asthma-type wheeziness and coughing, keeping him (and me!) awake half the night. cam.misc today suggests many people in Cambridge are having similar problems, perhaps due to pollen, low-level ozone, humidity or fungus spores and dust in the atmosphere. In an effort to remove possible dust from his atmosphere, I have cleaned the flat top to bottom this morning. Now I am very dusty :-( I hope it helps.Partly this is displacement activity - it seems I would actually rather sweep floors and scrub sinks than do the marking I'm supposed to do! Also, there are several other absorbing things that I ought to do, though not so urgently as the marking, which I expect I will allow to take priority over the marking until the last possible moment. The most interesting of these is working through Halliday's Introduction to Functional Grammar and Martin, Matthiessen and Painter's Working with Functional Grammar - this is the most appealing because it is new linguistic stuff. The other thing is working through the preparatory materials for my forthcoming Maths course - this is interesting, but not quite so interesting as functional grammar, because it's all stuff I once knew, and vaguely remember, so it doesn't have novelty; also, it's possible that I just find linguistic things intrinsically more interesting than mathematical things (although, the levels at which I'm studying them are very different - I might find higher-level Maths much more interesting once I can understand it!). The marking is sort of mid-level very familiar linguistic stuff, however, and having marked half a dozen scripts, I feel I've largely exhausted any excitement or novelty that might be found in answers to this particular question - however, I still have at least twenty more scripts to mark on the same topic.
