The girls' room is finished, and so is Stephen's.
The girls had picked out what we had thought would be a very very pale pink; but now that it's all over the walls we see that it is actually a very very pale lilac. They still like it though, thank goodness. Steve's room looks very nice - a soft cloudy grey-blue. I hope he likes the finished product. He hasn't seen it yet, as he stayed home today in order to study. Supposedly. I will be very interested to see the results for the set of exams he's currently taking. Bobby and I do not feel he's working nearly hard enough; he thinks he is. We shall see who's right in a week or two.
We take the radio over to the house when we're doing all this DIY stuff, so we have heard an awful lot of the BBC's World Service recently. I had the radio upstairs with me when I gave Steve's room its first coat of paint, but it was downstairs with Bobs when I was doing the second coat. It was really odd; as I moved round the silent room, repainting, I remembered all the different news stories I'd heard earlier quite clearly. The muslim lifeguards in Australia when I was painting by the door; international reaction to Bush's "surge" in Iraq along the right-hand wall, a silicon-valley based Indian entrepreneur talking about the use of biomass in green energy when I got to the window wall. This must have implications for recalling other information. Maybe I should suggest that Stephen study in the room in which he's going to take his exams?
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There's a remembering method (mnemonic device?!) that lecturers use wherein they post imaginary signs along a well-known path--in their imagination (or around the room they're going to be giving the lecture in)-- each with a prompt for each part of the lecture, and then when they actually give the lecture, they stroll around the room (or along the path) in their head and remember the next part of the lecture. Not sure I explained that properly, but maybe you've heard of it. It's supposed to be extremely effective, just as you described.
It's all to do with the strong smell of the paint, well just strong smells in general. Rosemary for remembrance and all that, it's said the strong smell of rosemary brings back memories but it's actually just strong smells in general.
What Muslim lifeguards???
You move in soon? That's great.
It will be interesting to see how the tests turn out. Who's perception is more accurate.....
I think what MF wrote is very interesting...I have never heard of that before. Makes me think about learning lines for a play. I like to learn my lines as I learn my blocking, not before I learn my blocking. Same result. Interesting.
Glad things are going along at a nice pace. Perhaps he should paint while you read him his notes?
Someone told me to choose a different essential oil for each subject. Diffuse it in the room when you are studying. When you go to take the exam, all you will need is a little whiff of the smell. I haven't tried it, but it seems plausible.
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