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alt_sinistra) wrote2012-12-12 07:37 pm
alt_sinistra) wrote2012-12-12 07:37 pm
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Meteors and exams
First, no assignment, but the Draconid meteor showers peak tonight and tomorrow - and due to the new moon, they should be especially visible. It looks likely to stay clear tonight, but I’m less confident about the rest of the week so come look tonight if you'd like to. (Fifth years, feel free to come up early if you like: I'll have things open around 11.)
Exams
Alas, the forecast for next week is rather dire. Rather than keep everyone up late in the hopes of a clear sky, I am planning to use the projection stones for my exams. This also means you can all get a bit more sleep. Please be at my classroom at 8:55pm on your usual night. My NEWT students, please see below.
Office hours
For those of you with last minute questions, I will have office hours on Sunday afternoon from 2-5:30pm and next Tuesday from 7-8:45pm, as well as my usual Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday.
My NEWT students
Sixth and seventh years: this year, I’d like to gather you all in my office on the Friday night (the 21st) at 10pm. In lieu of an exam, please be prepared to give a 2-3 minute summary of your topic to everyone present, and to submit a copy of your current research notes. (Full review will need to wait for January, but if you have questions that affect your research or reading plans for the holidays, please ask.) And of course, our Friday gathering will have the usual seasonal round of treats and conversation. We should be done by midnight, to make it easier for you all to get off promptly in the morning on the train.
For those of you who can get to New London, I am seeing if I can arrange a short tour of the Astronomy Guild and its library. Scheduling may prove too challenging, but if you are interested, please let me know which of January 2nd, 3rd, or 4th you might be available (daytimes only.)
Exams
Alas, the forecast for next week is rather dire. Rather than keep everyone up late in the hopes of a clear sky, I am planning to use the projection stones for my exams. This also means you can all get a bit more sleep. Please be at my classroom at 8:55pm on your usual night. My NEWT students, please see below.
Office hours
For those of you with last minute questions, I will have office hours on Sunday afternoon from 2-5:30pm and next Tuesday from 7-8:45pm, as well as my usual Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday.
My NEWT students
Sixth and seventh years: this year, I’d like to gather you all in my office on the Friday night (the 21st) at 10pm. In lieu of an exam, please be prepared to give a 2-3 minute summary of your topic to everyone present, and to submit a copy of your current research notes. (Full review will need to wait for January, but if you have questions that affect your research or reading plans for the holidays, please ask.) And of course, our Friday gathering will have the usual seasonal round of treats and conversation. We should be done by midnight, to make it easier for you all to get off promptly in the morning on the train.
For those of you who can get to New London, I am seeing if I can arrange a short tour of the Astronomy Guild and its library. Scheduling may prove too challenging, but if you are interested, please let me know which of January 2nd, 3rd, or 4th you might be available (daytimes only.)
Re: Private message to Poppy and Pomona
As to the roses, yes. They got quite rare for a while in there, did you know? They were always Nana's favourites, and - well, I still have the owl where Mum wrote the last bush she had died. And they've got such an incredible scent.
(Actually, I think it's the scent that made me learn the roses properly in the first place. The route from my room to my favourite observing spot at home was best done through Mum's rose garden, and if I crushed something in the dark, I'd be in deep trouble in the morning.)
Re: Private message to Poppy and Pomona
Roses, really? I knew you were better with them than most green things (not that that says much, as we both know), but you should have told me that when you were struggling with Herbology. We might have made some use out of it. I suppose that's the reason you were so insistant on a few roses for the wedding, even though it's early season for most varieties?
At any rate, I'm glad the introduction was of use. Hard to put a tree under the tree, as it were, but I suppose that's the advantage of being a grown up, and enjoying a pleasure delayed.
Re: Private message to Poppy and Pomona
Though, clearly, I have not caught you up on the saga of the florist, nor her idea for centrepieces that would like to take over the world. Or at least block every clear line of sight in the place, and I am having none of that.
We will be juggling quite enough touchy personalities (and I do not just mean on Raz's side of the equation: some of my own astronomy colleagues are less likely to pull a wand, but perhaps more likely to throw a very public fit if offended) and I am not giving anyone the chance to be surprised from behind a pot of calla lilies or whatever the last round was.
Why does no one take my "No, really, as simple as we can get away with?" seriously? (Never mind. I know the answer to that. It's hard to do simple really well, and it doesn't show off any of their skills to gain hordes of new clients. Anyway. I think I've won the round with the florist, but we'll have to keep checking on it.)