Reading Notes: Mahabharata Part D (extra credit reading notes)

 Bibliography: Tiny Tales from the Mahabharata by Laura Gibbs

What a long strange trip it's been!

Despite it covering a lot of the section, since this battle has been coming for the whole story, it feels like it happened so fast! Still many bad things happening to the Pandavas, but if they didn't happen we wouldn't have a story. 

The ending is kind of wild - climbing mountains and descending to hell. I'm not sure if it's a happy ending, or just an ending. The tale of the Pandavas just stops and then we have a bit about someone else and a sacrifice. I may be confused though because there were so many names in this story that I am not 100% sure who or how this relates. Some googling may be in my future!

"End" by mrjoro is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

Week 8 Comments and Feedback

 Let's be real - this is one area I have really fallen behind on this semester! 

 I don't know what to do to fix this. For me my second semester of social work practicum has really increased the amount of feedback I need to give and receive in 'real life' at my practicum site. That's been... a lot. And I don't always have the headspace left over to think of feedback for this class that is genuine and helpful. Everything would end up as "Great job, I like your story!" 

This is something I will have to think on. I am not sure how to approach this yet for the second half of the semester. I may try working kind of...sideways and do next week's feedback/comments this Sunday/Monday. Give myself a buffer between my daily job related feedback and things for this class.

From the Feedback Cats stream - Image source here

Week 8 Progress

 Progress. Oof.

So after last week I am definitely not where I would like to be. But things happen, internet goes out and all is not lost yet! I've definitely got some extra credit ahead of me to pull back up to where I would like to be.

From what I've looked at, everything should be fine to get back where I want/need to be by the end of the semester. I hate that the first half of this semester has started out so weird for me but done is done.

"Doing all the things. #mov #museumofvancouver" by sharpener is licensed under CC BY 2.0

Week 8 Reading & Writing

 The reading and writing assignments overall are great! It's my life that's a little bit extra crazy this time around and so I am not happy with the number of posts I have and certainly not pleased with the number of stories I've been able to write. 

I do like the look of my blog and project website. There are some things I thought I might want to do with the project website but that may be a bit beyond my coding skills for a project. :)

I have great ideas for my story posts/project! I have just needed about 5 more hours in a day these past two weeks. My biggest accomplishment so far is just maintaining - it hasn't been perfect and it hasn't been everything but it is enough. And sometimes enough is..well, enough. 

I enjoyed Narayan's Ramayana! The Mahabharata was not bad, but there were so many names and people to keep up with compared to the Ramayana.

My reading notes are odd, but they work for my brain! I may use some of them to experiment with micro fiction, which is something I have not done yet!

My favorite picture from my blog so far is this one of Lakshmi. I just really love the colors, and the elephants. :) 

Image source: Lakshmi