Apropos of my last post wherein I had a good old bitch about APA 7th edition referencing, I am validated. It is DEFINITELY a whole new layer of Hell and Dante would do well to steer well clear. I received an assessment back this morning and I have been let down by my referencing. Can I just say referencing totally fucking bites the bag? There, that's off my chest.
Here are my options:
1. Cry.
2. Start a whiny Change Dot Org petition wherein I call for the person responsible for this dastardly requirement to be stuffed into a weapons-grade trebuchet and catapulted right out to Betelgeuse.
3. Accept that my referencing skills need work, speak to a tutor, install some referencing software, and work like a Trojan on my next assessment to ensure I get the overall marks necessary to pass this unit which, ironically, is about resilience.
Guess I'll go with the third option.
So, what's good at the moment?
1. My new kitchen is coming along nicely and I adore the new white tiled splash-back. I hyphenated the words 'splash' and 'back' because they refer to a noun, but spellcheck won't let me type them together, and I therefore say they must be hyphenated.
2. I had a good tutoring session via Zoom this morning and successfully shared a screen. To all you digital natives out there, I know you're thinking: 'Ho-hum', but this is a big moment for a digital immigrant of my age.
3. We have a new TV. Our old one died so we bought a new one yesterday, you know the kind: apps like Stan and Netflix already on it. I am old enough (why I'm a digital immigrant) to remember colour television being introduced in Australia, and how exciting it was to get a new colour TV. Also recall having to roll a button back and forth to tune in a channel that was blurry or snowy. Guess what? Had to get up off the lounge to do this. If the kid I was back then could envisage the television set I now have, that kid would not believe it.
Anyway, I will now either work on my other assessment or watch something on this big-arse new TV.
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