I feel confident that I have learned lectures #1-#6.

I now feel confident that I have learned lectures #1-#6 and am watching lectures #7 & #8 today and maybe lectures #9 and #10 today. These are my public law lectures at Carleton University.

I may be able to do my final review of the first term by the end of the weekend given that we have a long weekend in Canada.

I am keen to study today. I will start my public law lectures on the TV and attempt to study all day.

I have woken up on Saturday morning when I am usually just going to sleep. I will attempt to read books and watch lectures all day.

I continued to study community mental health and public law.

I continued to read Tom Burns yesterday and also to watch public law lectures.

Recorded lecture #19 yesterday and watched 3 hours of lectures this morning.

I recorded but did not watch lecture #19. This morning when I got in from some socialising I watched some of lecture #4, #15, #9, and #6. I spent about three hours watching these lectures and took more notes than usual. I am feeling that I am ok with watching the lectures and do not need as much of a review of past lectures that I thought I needed. If I really had to review everything in the course I had thought needed reviewing yesterday, this would amount to 40 hours of TV watching. I don't think I need that much. Watching many of the lectures this morning made me realise I had seen these lecture already. But it does help me deepen my notes.

My volunteer position has added responsiblity now.

I have been elected president of our peer to peer self help group. I have served on this board from 1999-2002 and again this past year. I have been vice-president before and treasurer. I was secretary this last year and this coming year I will be president. Hopefully in my term as presdient I can get us some more funding. I will continue to study mental health issues and keep providing knowledgable leadership to this group.

Reading about Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) teams.

I am reading Tom Burns' Community Mental Health Teams: A Guide to Current
Practices (Oxford, UK: Oxford, 2004).

Tom Burns spent 10 years managing a generic community treatment team then 10
years managing an ACT team. He is a professor at Oxford University.

I spent the last four hours reading a few books and got chapter one of Tom
Burns book read. Here are some facts from chapter one to share with you.

Beside meds contributing to deinstitutionalisation also the welfare state
(i.e money to live outside the hospital) and various other societal
developments such as human rights have contributed to community living. Also
professional developments and the therapeutic community movement played a
role. Unlocked wards were developed in Britian in the late 1940's although
some these days in the early 2000's are going back to locked wards.

Italy outlawed mental health hospitals in 1978. Replaced them with community
health care teams.

It really goes in waves and each time we think we have the ideal thing.
Victorian hospitals were great in their day. Unshackling the insane was a
big move way back when. ECT was great in its day.


He pokes open and deepens my understanding of mental illness.

Completed grading the mid-terms.

Well I completed grading the mid-term papers now. I will now rest and then go to school for the labs later today. I will give the mid-terms back and receive the student's 4th lab for marking this week. I am also working 20 hours this week in security. I have a fair amount of time off of work this week too. I need to step up my own studies both of public law and other topics.

I got Q5 marked by 11:30, and will be working on Q1 from 12 to 1 AM.

This marking I do gets done in increments. Thus these posts accounting my progress question by question were formerly written only in my private pen and ink journal. I have been keeping various pen and ink journals since high school. I have one agenda book from high school which was an Economist yearbook. I also have pen and ink journals these days back to about 1994 in some sort or another. Since about 2003 I have kept my pen and ink journal on notebook paper in a standard binder and store them in a binder now putting them out of the active binder every time they are three months old.

Well I have only one Q and that is Q1 a simple standard deviation, mean calculation, and a box plot drawing with calculations to grade. Once this has been graded I will total marks and record them and print the marks in hard copy. I will start on this final Q in about ten minutes and I think it won't take more than one hour.

Finished marking Q4 and maybe I will get Q5 done by 11 PM.

Well I completed marking the poisson problem by 10 PM. Now I will mark Q5 and maybe get that done by 11 PM then Q1 done by midnight. Then I can go back to my own studies until 4 am.

Watched another Star Gate SG1 episode, "Brief Candle".

I watched another Star Gate SG1 espisode from the first season. I have now watched about 5 or 6 episodes plus the pilot episode and the movie. I am watching them almost perfectly in the correct order except for some very recent episodes watched with friends. We will create our characters this week on Wednesday but won't start playing until four weeks from now.

Almost done marking Q4. Hope to finish marking the mid-term by tomorrow early morning.

I have almost completed marking Q4 on the mid-term. Q4 is a poisson problem. I will complete Q4 by midnight then Q5 by 1 AM then go back to complete Q1 by 3 AM then record the marks and sleep.

I also have to pick and solve some problems for the other statistics course I am TA in. Then present these problems in tomorrow's tutorial.

Got to the 1.5 hour break in lecture #17 lecture tape.

I watched up to the break in lecture #17 now. I am not sure if I watched lecture #15 but have watched lectures's #13 & #14 and most of lecture #16. Lectures #13-#17 are the lectures on administrative law. The next lectures are on Charter law. This means I am about 9 hours through a possible 15 hours of the second term tapes. I will record lectures #19 & #20 this week bring the time up to 20 hours. I will also need to buy some more blank tapes for lectures #21-#24, this week or next weekend.

I did mark two Q's on the STAT2507 mid-term as planned.

I am up until 4 am as planned. I did get two questions graded for the statistics 2507 mid-term as planned today. I did not get all my TV watching done. I wasted some time surfing to buy things on ebay, airmiles, hbc and also looked into camping in Cuba. I did spend a little time thinking about my fall schedule and also accounting my August schedule. I put CUPE4600 activities in my agenda book, my TA work in my agenda book and my volunteer schedule for August.

Three Star Gate SG1 episodes in a row with feminist themes.

I am not even sure a younger person would notice that three episodes in a row in the first season of Star Gate SG1 had feminist themes. One involved women's place in society, one women and rape, and one controlling and abusive partners. I hope to watch two more episodes today or tomorrow.

Bayes rule question marked.

I just got the Bayes rule questions marked. I now only need to mark four more questions.

Started to watch lecture #17 and recorded lecture #18.

We are in the home stretch now. I have started today to watch lecture #17. I am also finishing up watching lecture #4 today. Tomorrow I will watch lecture #18.

I completed watching lecture #14 just now.

Ending with a summary of various government bodies and their functions and levels of functions and how they are controlled lecture #14 is now watched completely once. I have watched most of lecture #16 as well so am about a quarter of the way through viewing the second term's lectures now.

In terms of the professor's notes I have printed 20 of the 24 note sets and have reviewed lectures' notes #'s 1-9 carefully once. By the end of the week end I would like to have reviewed all the notes for the 20 lectures.

Of the 17 lectures broadcast so far I have about 6 watched sufficently with no more review needed. I have another 2 in the second term to watch plus today's which I will tape and watch later. And I have watched almost 4 completely twice in the first term with the rest watched a little or with distractions. I really need to start watching lectures #'s 5-10 carefully still.

Reading sent emails and union volunteering.

I spent about an hour reading emails I had sent in the last two weeks. This is post publishing proof reading. Everything seems ok.

I also did some union emails concerning our newsletter, and web site. With my more radical union I did a few emails about dues and also our literature supplies.

I will read a little before going to work for 12 hours today.

I plan to read a little about computers and also public law this morning. I will also push myself to read a little more of the advanced statistics books I have. I will also review some of the textbooks on statistics for the courses I am a teaching assistant for. I am working 12 hours today in unrelated work.

I worked hard on public law studies over night.

I managed to study and review the professor's notes for lectures #1 to #9. I had been meaning to do this before the final review to familerise myself with the basic concepts in the course and as exam preparation. I did not manage to watch the end of lecture #14 nor watch any of lecture #17. Lecture #18 will be broadcast tomorrow.

Reviewing professor's notes continues.

I have now reviewed lectures #5 and #6. I took some breaks and will now review lectures #7 and #8.

I received an email from Sheryl Hamilton.

I had emailed Sheryl Hamilton about her MA and why I found it to read in the sping. I corrected my reasons for finding her MA and choosing to read it, in yesterdays email and discussed my understanding of IP law and why I would find her course interesting. She emailed me back within one day and attached the course outline for LAWS3202 from last year. I read the basic rules in the outline carefully and then read the marking scheme carefully. These sections of the course outlines are often very similar from course to course in the law department. I did not read the weekly readings list that carefully but noted that the readings are all mostly recent writings and also that some come from Wired Magazine and involved Open Source stuff too. I also read her email carefully and replied to her on Wednesday after work. I am feeling relaxed studying overnight certainly academic work like studying is more relaxing than teaching and more relaxing than some of the other jobs I hold.

Studying pubic law over night.

I spent the last hour and a half studying public law. I watched more of lecture #14. I am just past the break now by about a quarter of an hour. After watching this lecture I read and reviewed the professors power point slides. I reviewed the first four lectures. I am now going to review the rest of the first term's notes from lecture #5 to lecture #12. I will then complete watching lecture #4 then watch lecture #17 which I recorded yesterday. This might take about 7 hours and I hope to be done by about 9 am.

I will study later on Thursday morning.

I was working 8 hours today with no time to study. I will study some after midnight tonight.

Sent some email to a couple of my law professors.

I just sent some emails to two law professors at Carleton University. In one email I let the professor know that I might be in her fall term course on intellectual property as my last law course in my BA. In the other email, I let my honours paper supervisor know my plans for the year and let him know I might ask him to be my MA supervisor in 2006-2007.

Still reading David Bell's book.

I woke and had more luck reading David Bell's book. It is the section on cyborgs that is slowing me down. One of our law professors wrote her MA thesis on cyborgs and feminism. She will be teaching an intellectual property course this coming fall term and I might study that but it is given on Tuesday mornings at 8:30 so might mean I would still be on an odd over night schedule for studies and work.

Web mastering for the school union.

I got in the right frame of mind to do some web mastering for the CUPE4600 web site. Which means I have had two pots of coffee in the last 9 hours and lack sleep. I posted our by-laws and constitution on the web site. I also updated an external link.

Read an article about judicial and non judicial controls of the government administration.

I was feeling a little sick being up 22 hours so rested a little. Then I continued reading and read the first article in chapter three of the second term source book for LAWS2005 my public law course. I tried reading about cyber culture today from David Bell's book but was too cynical or he was too shallow and too hyped on VR, and AI, etc. I did complete reading the introduction to the biotechnology lectures book from the Arab world. I need to print some lecture slides later this morning then sleep for work early tomorrow morning in my non-academic job.

Read about writing and addictions

I read a chapter of a book on writing and addictions. The author of this chapter is addicted to reading she says. This is of course incorrect in that she misinterprets addiction to write her story which is really about books she likes to read by addict writers and also the brief and cynical history of alcohol in Alberta. This history jumps into her writing in regular paragraphs. She uses three alternating paragraphs in her chapter. One as I said is a cynical look at Alberta and its prohibition period, the other paragraphs are her own reading of addict's fiction and the other is her exploration of her own possible addictions and generally the topic of addiction. These last paragraphs are where she is basically incorrect but still cynical.

Here is her bibilographic cite: Aritha van Herk Ladies and Escorts in Szabados Bela & Probert, Kenneth, G. eds. Writing Addictions: Towards a Politics of Desire and Its Others (Regina, Sask.: Canadian Plains Research Center, 2004).

School schedule 2005-2006.

I worked on picking courses for next year. I could have a two statistics course schedule this fall. I will wait on multivariant analysis until grad school. I might study time series this fall in statistics and/or stochastic processing and queuing theory. In law courses there are a few choices most fourth year course except for intellectual property which is a third year course. I considered studying the business enterprise frameworks course which would let me study corporate crime in the winter. For fourth year seminars this term coming up the fall term I have about 6 choices. There is a justice theories course, and a contraversies in rights course. There are courses in criminal law on sentencing, police, and aboriginals for the three criminal law courses. Then finally there is an environmental law course concerning groups and the environmental law making process. The courses I am keen on are the policing course and the intellectual property course but would also like the justice theories course and the environmental law course.

Getting back into reading academic books overnight.

I read a little Petra Kelly on political parties. I also started a book on Ethiopian cities and the state of these cities. I also read the beginning of Weinberger, Shmuel. Computers, Rigidity, and Moduli (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University, 2005). I also starting reading the introduction to The Emirates Centre for Strategic Studies and Research. Biotechnology and the Future of Society: Challenges and Opportunities (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates: The Emirates Centre for Strategic Studies and Research, 2004).

I am getting this marking done.

I am doing ok with the marking. I am half way through the one courses tests and then need to mark some 4 Q's on the other courses mid-term. The mid-term does not need to be marked by tomorrow but the other test does need to be marked by tomorrow. That's the one I am half way through. I want to get three quarters of the way through before going to sleep tonight.

Got a little marking done this morning.

I got a little more marking done this morning. I should do more before the day is over. I should also study some lectures today.

Read chapter 2 in the 2nd term source book.

I had some quiet time at work to read chapter two of the second term source book. I have about two chapters to read still in the first term source book but have started the second term source book now. I hope to have these both read my early August before the exam.

I watched most of lecture #16 as it was being broadcast.

I watched most of lecture #16 as it was being broadcast. It was about judical review of administrative decisions.

Learning the basics of administrative law.

Lecture #14 starts the teaching of administrative law. I am about half an hour through this lecture now and should watch another half an hour tonight. I also successfully recorded lecture #15 this past Wednesday morning. I will be watching about 7 hours of lectures before I work again in security work on Friday night.

I marked a multiple choice mid-term.

I marked a multiple choice mid-term. This was not as difficult as the more advanced or probablistic course I am a teaching assistant in this summer. I can easily solve all the questions on the mid-term I gave last night. Marking a multiple choice test might always be easy. I double checked some answers too and I agree with the marking scheme. I am getting to know the students and chat with when off duty. In general school is a very positive experience for me right now.

I completed watching lecture #13 just now.

I completed watching lecture #13 just now and am starting on lecture #14.

I think I started a flame war on Usenet

I was reading alt.support.schizophrenia and got mad at a few things. I ignored the first thing namely some guy who posts tens of posts a day about nothing. I replied to some posts and added some useful content. Then I read some story about a disAbled teen being misunderstood and kept in US jail after having trouble communicating at the border. While this injustice would make me mad it was really a characterization of disAbled people in jail as extremely violent that made me respond. I ended up cross posting, a no no. Oh well I did then get some positive feedback about a study plan. The plan is to spent less time on the Internet amongst other time wasters. So I quit my email and Usenet.

I should sleep now. I completed reading chapter 9 in the spring term source book and started chapter 10. This is for lectures #7 and #8.

I did give labs and gave advise to students for the mid-term. I also gave a test. I tried to relax the students more this time and they seemed to complete more work on the test. I need to mark these tests this week. I told my boss that computer crime has intersections for law and statistics. She said computer crime is interesting just like one statistics professor told me in an email about four years ago when she said computer tinkering is interesting.

Got my marking done and got some more work booked.

I completed marking STAT2507 assignment #3 about an hour ago. I will give this class two labs tonight and then they have their mid-term this Wednesday. I am also giving a test tonight for the other statistics class. I will mark these two tests over the next week. I booked a fair amount of security work for the next three weeks about 54 hours total. I also wrote a resume and cover letter for working as a law teaching assistant and will drop that off at the law department this afternoon before working over in the math department. Things are going well and I have some time this afternoon to upload the Suzuki lectures to my PSP so I can listen to them today. I have tomorrow off of work but can mark tomorrow and get caught up on the LAWS2005 course work.

Downloaded a David Suzuki lecture as an mp3.

From www.oneworld.ca David Suzuki spoke recently at the National Farmers Union Convention held in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. He spoke about biotechnology. I just downloaded his lecture as mp3 files. The mp3's were provided by http://www.makingthelinksradio.ca

Reading about e-commerce

I am more than half way through a business book on e-commerce. The book is Adams, Gerald F, The E-Business Revolution & The New Economy (Mason, Ohio: South-Western, 2004).

Reading about the Canadian Charter of Right and Freedoms.

I started chapter 9 in the first term source book. This chapter concerns the Constitution Act 1982. I also completed chapter 1 in the second term source book and started chapter 2 in the second term source book. I should be reading more of these today and also watching lectures 13 and 4.

Completed watching lecure #3.

I finished lecture #3 which ends with a brief look at the early history of English legal Canada. Next I will watch lecture #4. I will also complete watching lecture #13 and start lecture #14. I would hope to get all this watching done by the end of the weekend. I did grade two minitab questions this morning. I will grade the rest of the minitab early Saturday morning and then grade the other two textbook statistics questions on Sunday. I will save Monday for any left over grading. I need to give the STAT3502 students a test on Monday. On Wednesday I will help give the STAT2507 students a mid-term test. Then I will be marking these tests over the next weekend but also working in security at a different time next weekend.

Almost completed watching lecture #3.

I have a few more minutes to watch in lecture #3 and this is my second time watching this lecture and this is my studying for the exam. For a week before the exam I will read the professor's power point slides. I did a fair amount of the extra reading for the first spring term. I am getting started on the required reading for the second summer term.

I spent some time this morning reading some more of Daniel Bell's Introduction to Cyberculture. I completed the chapter on identities in cyberspace this morning. Class and cyberspace figures in macintosh ownership.

I surfed the school course schedule for next year and looked at available courses in math, philosophy, sociology as well as reviewing the schedule for statistics courses.

Watching the terrorism news and my lectures.

I am not much moved by the terrorism news today. I did call some security officals to see what I could do to help. I also discussed the issue with a community volunteer. We were discussing the differences between threats and conspiracies. I recalled speaking in a public lecture about paranoia as a sick form of politics building on my experiences of jealously and schizophrenia. The world may be a violent place but it certainly doesn't need to be seen that way. I have been studying Petra Kelly's writings on erotica and also will study her non-violence and protest writing this weekend. I also have been reading a study about victims of terrorism. I have been a little more relaxed and played dungeons and dragons last night successfully. I have been watching my public laws lectures slowley getting through lecture #3 and now the newest lecture #13. Lecture #14 will be broadcast on Friday at 1:30.

Getting studies organised.

I am getting my studies organised. The 2005-2006 schedule of courses being given is now available. I put the schedule of almost all third and fourth year law courses in my little paper agenda book. Along side these I put the advanced statistics courses I am interested in. I did this on Wednesday and just last night picked a schedule for next year. While studying Alan Hunt a professor at my school I though perhaps that legal studies and a legal studies MA might be the best direction for my future. Thus my schedule could change allowing me to study other types of courses like sociology or political science or philosophy. I also considered studying extra legal studies courses. I am going to read the calendar a bit now as my reading of school books is slowing down a bit this morning.

Reading a federalism case about marine pollution.

I had considered law studies in the middle 1980's because of my concerns about the environment and my goals in green politics. Today I am reading a case about marine pollution and the Federal governments law concering dumping. The Supreme court in this case found generally that pollution was a federal concern.

I also received Petra Kelly's book and read the last chapter of it concerning erotica. It seem she also finds dialogue on the left lacking about some personal topics in this case erotica. I am concerned that personal needs including mental health are not talked about enough on the left and thus we loose some important activists due to their suicides. Petra Kelly was murdered by her lover apparently. But reading these books now sugggests they were both killed by their enemies in an assassination.

Getting back into reading academic books overnight.

I read five books while on break from marking. I know more about cyberculture now and the basics of French post-modern cultural theory. I also know more about Silicon Valley North from a business and success perspective. I also know a little bit more about some philosophical foundations of human rights now. I also know more about uncertain input and how and why to use the worse case scenario method. I need to read much more about this for statistics graduate school. I also know more about my school and graduate school from reading the school calendars. I also watched more public law lectures. I also know a little bit more about the iBook now. I bought an iBook which might arrive by UPS delivery this coming week. I believe in a beautiful computer world. I guess it was another 24 hours of advanced study.

I worked long hours this morning on my teaching assistant work.

I managed to mark some assignments and one test this morning. I just completed 48 hours of volunteering on call this morning at 8 am. I am working tomorrow for 5 hours. I also have a volunteer meeting in the morning. I also have a volunteer meeting on Tuesday too. I could also go to another volunteer gig's orientation session on Tuesday evening. Then on Wednesday I have a lecture but no work or volunteer duties. Then Thursday I can take a day off. Then Friday I have lecture again. Then I am back on over night hours for the weekend. I will have to mark another assignment by next Monday.

Studying lecture #3 today.

We are covering Max Weber a little at the start of this lecture. I will watch this lecture and then watch lecture #4. I hope to get this done by Monday. I am waiting to hear about my essay mark. I should be able to pick this up at the CUTV centre in a couple of weeks.

Just got to the break in lecture 12 and my other studies continue.

I plan to catch up on lecture viewing over the study break. I managed to get through the first half of lecture #12 now. This concerns the Supreme court ruling on secession from Canada of Quebec. Mostly the first half of this lecture is about the courts ruling on a unilateral declaration of indepedence.

Last night I read about Silicon Valley North and success characteristics of a silicon valley. I also read some stuff about scientists critiquing their own fields from a feminist perspective. Speaking of my own field of science I have some statistics tests to grade this evening and I graded one question on the poisson process last night for all the tests. I also have gotten the respect of another student of data mining by telling him that I know a little Russian, Finnish, German and Estonian. He is studying Japanese this summer and values other language abilities. I have been talking to him all spring term in the library whenever we meet and also I bumped into him at an academic bookstore downtown once this spring term.

Watching lectures continues.

I watched more of lecture 12 yesterday and might finish it today. Then I have lectures 3-11 to watch but have seen lectures 11 and 7 a fair amount and also the other ones I have watched some of already. I also have the power point slides for all the lectures printed out in my notebook.

I am volunteering a little today and yesterday. I will also volunteer for 28 hours this weekend.

I am working on grading slowly.

I have been slowly grading minitab questions on the student's homework. I should be done with the minitab today. I will then mark the textbook questions.

Yahoo, another spring term ends successfully!

After a steady pace and then two long days and one short day I completed my essay. I worked with a tutor this morning and got the paper touched up. Mostly with these tutors they point out grammar errors then it is up to me to rewrite the sentence. I then handed it in to the law department office.

Well this course requires this one essay then a final exam. The exam is in mid August. One of school friends who also has a mental illness is writing a mid term test in statistics tonight at 7 PM. I helped him with some concepts from multiple regression while we smoked in front of the library. I couldn't directly answer his question but I helped him understand the whys and hows of making multiple regression models. He asked about the sequential sum of squares something I don't know about.

Completed public law paper on Judicial Review with reference to Bill C-38.

I just completed the paper. I added some evidence for my point by refering to Bill- C-38, An Act to amend the Contraventions Act and the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act, 2d Sess., 37th Parl., 2004. This was to make my point about marijuana laws being unreasonable and refering somehow to the number of Canadians who use marijauna. Thus marijuana laws could be considered undemocractic.

Now I just need to make sure the ibid's and supras are in italics and I am done. I will though see a writing tutor this morning for one more read through with someone else. I will then make any final corrections and print at school or come home and print and then take the paper back before 4 PM today, the official due date and time for the paper.

Getting my footnotes done.

My immediate plans to do the final footnoting of my essay this weekend are coming along as planned. My lecture watching plans are not coming along very well. Nor are my course long reading goals working well at the moment. Maybe this morning I will complete the footnoting and then work on reading and watching lectures.

Paper in near final state, referencing begins.

My public law spring term paper is written now. I slept on it. I am about to read it now. I will then complete referencing it. Mostly this is the journal articles from the April 1999 Policy Options journal. I also need to reference the Oakes case from 1986. I will use my McGill law student style guide for legal writing.

I did watch lecture 11 as it aired.

I watched most of lecture 11 as it aired. I have started to watch lecture 12. I really don't need to review lectures 1 or 2 again. I could watch lectures 4-10 again. That means I have about 8 lectures to watch again or 20 hours of watching. I have about a week to do this or eight days. I have no security work scheduled in this time. That breaks down to one lecture a day. I will complete lecture 12 today and watch lecture 3 on Sunday.

Completed reading Cheffins and Johnson.

I finished reading Cheffins, Ronald I. & Johnson, Patricia A. The Revised Canadian Constitution: Politics as Law (Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1986). That is I have read the recommended chapters of this book.

My public law essay is almost done now.

I worked a fair amount on Wednesday and Thursday morning to get my paper done and then some more on Friday. I have seen a tutor twice now and also had a psych councilor look it over. It is looking good but is a bit too long. I have another appoinment with a tutor on Monday morning then I can work on it in the library and hand it in on Monday afternoon.

I saw a writing tutor yesterday.

I saw Eric in our school's free writing tutorial service. We needed to formalise my writing a bit. Today was the first day someone else read my paper. I have some rewrites to do and then I need to write more. I need to do this this morning before 4 am. I can do more later tonight and on Friday.

Watching lectures

I watched the 9th lecture last night. This covered amendments to the constitution. I watched the first hour. Tomorrow while I sleep I will record lecture #10. I won't get back to these studies until Tuesday early morning. I may have some quiet time to read at work and so will take the Cheffin's and Johnson to work and our course source book to work with me.

I have also watched most of lecture #7. I have watched a good part of lecture #2 for the second time now. I hope to watch lecture #11 when it airs. But watching lectures is not as useful right now as doing my essay which means I need to be clear about exactly which lectures cover judicial review and also read more judicial review sources.

I know I'll cover the Oaks test and sketch that test out. I have about half an hour to do that tonight then I will rest my legal studies for the weekend.

I read the graduate school calendar for the graduate school regulations. So I know the rules generally for graduate school.

I think my feminism arguments are just table thumping

I need to be more analytical with my essay. I am just pounding the table about feminism. I need to rewrite that paragraph that covers feminism and the charter. I am gald I caught this because otherwise it appears well written.

Peter Hogg is a good constitutional scholar for this public law course.

I am finding the Peter Hogg book a good read to help me understand the lectures. I have been watching the 8th lecture just now after the guests have gone home. This part of the course is about constitutional amendments. This concerns Pierre Trudeau.

I am using both Open Office and Word to do school work.

I have had to use Microsoft's Word to count words in my legal studies paper. I have about 700 words written now in my paper so am about a third of the way through now. I read some more of the sources last night and also watched more of lecture #2 yesterday. I am set up to record lecture #8 later today in five hours.

I am printing using my Epson 820 photo stylus.

I read some more of an MA thesis today about cyborgs and feminism. I borrowed a book on Monday about addictions and writing.

Supposed to be working on my law paper.

Tonight I am also watching news and politics as the government faces confidence votes about our countries budget. I should be working on my studies. But today was a pay day so when I woke up I needed to do shopping. Even with a quickly looming deadline for a 2000 word paper I was busy starting to paint our bathroom. I did some preliminary poly filla work this evening.

But I have almost read now all the required sources and last night felt the anger and arguments rising about feminism and the Supreme court and the Charter but then I slept without getting the arguments down. I do know that I support feminism and the law and this is my own voice that I need to add to the paper. I have started the paper with a sketch of the idea and concept of judical review.

I web published my honours law paper yesterday.

I web published my paper titled Computer crime: is hacking really that bad? An exploration of the cases and laws concerning unauthorised access to computers. And it can be found as a web page at this address on the web http://www.ncf.ca/~at571/LAWS4908.html

or on my personal home page at this address http://www3.sympatico.ca/ptimusk/LAWS4908.html.

I backed up my present school work files and did a print out of my essay.

I was worried this morning about loosing my work from my public law course so printed out my essay in version 0.1.2 and also the bibliography. I also copied files from my courses from this term and last term over my home network to my Macintosh computer.

Marking assignments today and preparing to solve some problems in tonight's tutorial.

The only work I need to do today is complete marking some assignments and prepare some answers and problem solving for tonight's tutorial. I will then have some time off this job until next Monday when we have a test in one course and then that week I will need to mark the test. In the other course students will hand in their second assignment next week and I will also have that assignment to mark next week.

This will be the same time as my final week of essay writing so I should work hard on my essay this week and get it mostly done this week.

Public law studies continuing today.

I don't know why I am studying Canadian public law other than it is required course in my BA degree. I am interested in politics and this course is certainly about politics and the law. I completed watching lecture #1 a second time. I am now going to at least start the second viewing of lecture #2. I have also completed reading Hogg for lecture 2. I have also been reading Cheffins and Johnson and have added some of their text to my essay on Judicial Review. I learned more about my topic this morning. I now have 200 words in my term paper. I have another 1800 words to complete. I need to reference the McGill style guide for legal writting to see how to include extensive quote in footnotes. I believe professor Jaekl wants us to use longer footnotes to keep our word length down in the paper itself yet still allow us to go on at length.

Aoir email led me to wikipedia today

I was lead by an email to the English language wikipedia today and read a few entries including the entry for community informatics (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_informatics).

I have gotten to the break in lecture #1

I guess I have gotten through the first half of lecture #1. The end of the first half of the lecture concerns Hobbs and Locke.

I just read two Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics papers. One concerned literacy and had nothing to say about crime or victimisation. The other concerned disabilites and did include information about people with disabilities and victimisation but I did not read the whole report. I read about employment statistics of those with disabilities but not about victimisation statistics. Employment of those of us with disabilities concerns me highly.

My TA work is going according to schedule. The renewal of effort on public law studies is proving successful.

I got some more grading done just now for the first assignment in STAT2507. I have to get this done by Monday morning or so. It is going along according to plan. I will not work on it again until this evening or Sunday morning.

I was able to watch the first third of lecture #1. It was a review of the common political theorists in English language political philosophy namely, Plato, Aristotle, Hobbs, and Locke. We also covered the course outline and the basics of the defintion of law in terms of its relation to society, behaviour and politics. I hope to watch the rest of lecture #1 before 3:30 this morning.

I also read chapter 1 in

Cheffins, Ronald I. & Johnson, Patricia A. The Revised Canadian Constitution: Politics as Law (Toronto: McGraw Hill, 1986).

This chapter mostly covered the constitutional changes of 1982. There was some interesting comments on Trudeau and his motives. I could also use a few quotes for my essay, from this chapter to introduce judical review and the charter perhaps.

Lectures # 1 & 2 this morning Lectures 3 & 4 tomorrow morning.

I hope to review lectures # 1 & 2 this morning. I will also read books and help deliver the newspapers and sleep by 8 am. I will also watch Spiderman II, the latest Spiderman movie and also Stargate Episode 2 from the first season.

Public law course continues

My studies continue. The public law lecture #8 should have been broadcast today but apparently they made a mistake with lecture #7 so they played lecture #7 again today and lecture #8 will be played next Wednesday with lecture #9 on Friday and lecture # 10 on Saturday at noon. I will be writing some more over night tonight hopefully getting a better start on my essay.

I will also tonight over night be completing marking the Minitab questions to the first assignment in our basic statistics course. I just read some stuff on the valid regions for parameters lambda 3 and lambda 4 for the Generalised Lambda Distribution (GLD) in a book on this topic. I understood what they did to find the valid regions but did not follow the text too closely.

Reviewed two lecture tapes and copied them.

I now have complete lecture tapes for lectures broadcast to date. I have also viewed them all a little almost completely. There are still minutes I must watch so a second viewing will be called for for all tapes. Basically each lecture is 2 hours and twenty minutes. This means I have watched about 16 hours of lectures. I will need another 16 hours of time to view the lectures again to date. Plus I will need to watch another 5 lectures perhaps twice. This amounts to about 24 more hours plus the 16 would be 40 hours by July 1st. One problem is I am watching them after they have aired and recording them while they are being broadcast so get behind. I am basically caught up now and there is the 8th lecture tomorrow.

I am learning to read his power point slides as I watch the lectures. I need to return two tapes now 6 & 7 by Monday 8 am. But I have no work this weekend, no TA classroom duties, and very little active volunteering to do this weekend. I do have a 14 hour on call shift but that should be quiet. I also have a union meeting mid day Sunday and need to prepare a bit for that. I also have some marking of statistics assignments to do but am started that and it should take no more than three more hours to do that marking.

I also have my paper to start writing and the recent lectures are covering our essay topic so things are going well with that again. I have read almost all the required sources now and done a little thinking about the topic as I watched the lectures.

I am working on a linux computer install right now and may be going to help deliver the newspapers.

Gave talk on recovery and attended health and safety meeting.

I attended a health and safety meeting at the university. This was my first as the TA health and safety representitive. The news for us TA's is that science, engineering and design TA's will face extra safety training.

I also gave a talk on recovery yesterday and was a big hit. I got a lot of compliments.

I have been active on the aoir list discussing social science technical training and statistical training.

I have some 40 assignments to mark and should get those started today. The students generally worked hard with me to get good answers so I hope their marks reflect this. I will try to mark all the minitab questions today and finish off the marking tomorrow. I am skipping out on suicide intervention training that I was supposed to attend today and tomorrow but I have too much work and school work to complete.

Worried about spending enough time on my public law course

I have been making more mistakes recording my public law lectures. I now have the first five lectures taped. But taped over lecture #6 and did not tape lecture #7. I now have to borrow lectures #'s 6 & 7.

I have been steadily reading Hogg on amendments and have read about 71 pages of Hogg. I need to read another 180 pages. I also need to read more Plato and other books.

I started my spring term law paper.

I started my paper on the power of judges and judicial review and the Charter. I am going to call the judges guardians and use Plato's theory found in the Republic to explore the new legal reality in Canada. In particular I want to get at values and judges guarding values from reactionary politicians.

I forgot to turn the mute off on my TV and missed Wednesday's lecture

Oh well my first mistake happened on lecture #5. I forgot to turn off the mute on the TV and thus recorded the lecture without sound. I will need to go in later today or next week and borrow the lecture and tape it. I completed chapter 3 in Hogg. I have read the Bertha Wilson article on judical review and have about four other articles to read for the term paper required sources.

I am going to check out a summer term law course

If I complete another half credit of law this summer I will be able to graduate in November 2005. So today I am going to see if there is a space in a summer term course on Tuesday and Thursday evenings. Then I would not have to study next year at all if I so choose. I would not have the pressure of jumping straight from graduation to grad school or law school.

Speaking of law school I checked out an LSAT guide book that costs 60$ at a book store in a mall. These books stores were my high school haunts back in the middle 1970's. I read science fiction books bought in these stores in those days.

I am just completing printing the lecture slides for this week. The lecture starts in 1.75 hours.

Printing lecture power point slides

I am printing the first 6 lecture's slides from my public law course. I am printing them two slides per page and double sided so it takes one piece of paper to print four slides. I have almost completed viewing the 4th lecture. The fifth lecture will be broadcast today at 9 am. I will be asleep and tape it. I will watch it on Thursday morning and then next Tuesday. I will also record Friday's lecture and watch that on Tuesday next week.

Next Wednesday I am taking part in a recovery forum at a local social service centre. This will be part of my board duties. I will also display a work of art at this forum for sale. The work is a ready made and I will price it at 250$. It is titled Vintage Keyboard. Then on Thursday and Friday I will train in ASSIST suicide intervention. I will then have Saturday off of working except for the newspaper delivery help I do. Then on Sunday the 12th we have a union meeting at noon.

Speaking of union activity I will have a health and safety meeting next Wednesday at 9 am at school. This is for my health and safety representitive duties. We have our summer retreat for this local coming up in June possibly on the 21st.

I have been reading at a slightly slower pace this past week and am increasing my reading this week. I may have spent about three hours now working on the public law course and since the last time I accounted for this I have spent about 5 more hours. I have had about 10 hours of lectures now and put in about 23 hours out of class time including required readings, extra recommended readings and also talking or listening to the professor in his office hours. So I am at 23/60 or about .37:1 hours out of class to in class for the total course. For the present time in the course schedule I am at about 2.3/1 so slightly better than recommended by the simple year:class time ratio.

The spring term paper topic is available now and I have printed the main sources for this term paper.

Battleing it out in email lists. Down with racism and violence.

I commented about the departing UNESCO's Director of Statistics cultural insensitivity on the radstats email list just now. I also posed a question about the use of torture in developed countries like Canada related to the rise of IT on the aoir email list and was refered to Castells and looking at violence on balance with human rights activism and how that is more effective with the rise of IT.

Still trying to get through lecture 4 in public law

I am still trying to completely watch lecture 4 in my public law course. I have about an hour and a half to go in the lecture. I did manage to read a few Judicial Committee decisions in the source book. I did not read any Hogg or Plato yet.

Studying public law today

I am slowly studying lecture 4 of the Jaekl's public law course today on video tape. I might also read some of professor Hogg today, may be some Plato and defintely the source book for public law LAWS2005. I might also study some data mining or other computer topics.

Studies continue

I talked to professor Jaekl for about an hour today or rather listened to him talk. He told me about Plato's republic book 1. He said I should become a judge after listening to me comment on a Supreme court case.

Further in my own studies I read more about ecommerce just now. I also contacted Andrew Patrick an information security researcher at the National Research Council(www.nrc.ca). His personal home page is here at http://www.andrewpatrick.ca.

I spent three hours working in teaching on Friday night. I gave two basic intro minitab labs and one tutorial in probability to engineering and science students. I also gave a few other Math and Statistics TA's a union introduction session.

I am up late working on a web site and studying public law.

I just finished reading some critical studies of Internet economics where the author looked at drone economics or the free labour on the web or gift economy contributing to the ever more greedy business world and the capitialist web. The free stuff on the web keeps us surfing and eventually we buy something or at least pay for our Internet access.

I am just up earning a little above minimum wage doing some web linking to mapquest for our self help network. For each group in the network's web page I am making a link to mapquest based on the groups street address.

I am on call right now for my volunteer duties but it has been quiet for 6 hours now. I plan to sleep in about 3 hours. I might help with the newspapers a little.

I am working tomorrow from about 2 PM to 10 PM then I am going to stay up over night help a little with Saturday's papers if they are early then I will be going to another job for only four hours than I might check out a neighbourhood garage sale then come home and sleep at about 4 PM. So after the next 42 hours I will have worked at 4 jobs worked about 12 hours and earned about 130 dollars.

I have about an hour left to watch in my public law lecture which was recorded on Wednesday. I did not read any public law today. I did study Grass today and also computer ethics studies. I contacted Andrew Patrick at the National Research Council to see if he can help me research computer crime.

I studied Grass Open Source GIS and installed it

I succeeded to get Grass working on both my Macintosh and on my Windows computer but do not know how to use Grass yet. I have gotten it to launch the sample Speafish data on both computers now. I also was able to borrow a book from the library on how to use Grass and read the first chapter now.

Spent the day studying the origins of Canadian law and also computers.

The books I borrowed yesterday concern community computing and cyberculture and I started to read these books last night and more today.

I also got through chapter 2 of Peter Hogg's book today. I am just having my social night tonight.

I worked out three problems for Friday's STAT3502 tutorial and have about four more problems to solve. I have a plan for one problems to get myself lost and then show the ease of using the Venn Diagram method to solve the problem. This is a probability of outcomes problem.

The change is good.

I like the new background and will keep it. Now you can click on my profile.

I am changing the back ground now.

I decided to change the back ground template. I will see how this goes. I might ruin things.

I changed this blog so I can add titles to posts like this one.

I opened a new blog last week about music. It is at this web location http://our-musical-experience.blogspot.com/. Enjoy.

me thinking at the computer a few years ago. 

Me thinking at the computer 

Inspired by reading about GIS I downloaded the Grass open source GIS for the Mac and got it to work as per the spearfish tutorial. I stopped when I had an error. I then tried to install it under cygwin on the WinXP laptop I have. Cygwin setup could not install it so I made an ISO of cygwin grass and will attempt to install it now late in the day. I also borrowed a book from the school library that uses the spearfish tutorial.

I also borrowed a book on Silcon Valley North where I live. I searched at the library for books on development and computers but found nothing but documents that I can not borrow. I borrowed about three other books about cybercultures including one book on anarchy and computers.

I used the course reserves but did not read them for long. I had gotten excited when I borrowed them by a student from my data mining course and we explained our approches to the german credit card classifcation assignment. We both had done well with the course. I explained to him how spatial patterns show up in diagnostic techniques for linear models. I also read more about general linear models today.

I returned books on the feminist Supreme court judge, psychiatry and evidence based practices, XML and databases, and one other book.

I read more of Hogg today. I read Plato's the Republlic book 1, I read 1.1, 1.2 and 1.3 in Reesor's book on constitutional law.

I prepared to study first aid and also CPR. I found out today's health and safety training has been canceled.

I read a little about GIS origins and defintions of GIScience and GISystems. I also started chapter 2 in Peter Hogg's Constitutional Law of Canada student edition 2003. I am up early for a day off work but I will study today.

I spent three hours today studying constitutional law so I have 15 hours out of class time to 5 hours lectures or 3:1.

My data mining grade is good enough for graduate school.

My grade in the fourth year data mining course is available and I scored well enough to go to grad school with this mark. This also means my plan to study more third and fourth year honours statistics courses next year might be a good plan. I feel good about this mark too and was more motivated to study law over night and this morning. I was reading about the Canadian constitution and watching my second lecture. I also transfered the professor's power point slides to my palm hand held computer. I had to install power point 97 to do this transfer.

I read more about the decision of the Judical Committee regards section 92 of the Constitution Act 1867. This was formerly called the British North America Act 1867. I am still on the readings for lecture 6 of the course.

I recorded Friday's lecture which was lecture #2. I have watched half of this lecture now. I will complete watching it this morning and check the course web site for details on our essay assignment.

From the first half of the lecture the important dates are the defeat of the French in 1759 with the battle for Quebec occuring on September 13th, 1759. But the date we must know is the date of the Treaty of Paris 1763. We also should know the date of the Royal Proclamation 1763. This act protected the Aboriginals from the greed of the Europeans and still matters in land claims law. Then the next date to know is the date of the Quebec Act 1774 which gave civil law or Roman law back to Quebec private law courts.

So all of this is 200 years old. The author Ressor covers this in his book in advanced high school level English. I scanned his book last week. I would like to read it still. I borrowed Hogg and will read him this morning.

The lecture so far have been a slightly more in depth version of LAWS1000 with perhaps meantion of different legal scholars and new cases meantioned that figure in public law.

I also read some of the Palmpilot book by David Pouge. I also started another paper in the Feminist Science Studies reader. I also read the school calendar and picked out possible undergaduate course to take in law, math and computer science.

On Friday I met new TA's and welcomed them to the union and informed them of some of their rights.