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12 days ago
The flight from Heathrow to Belfast tonight was seriously chocca with turbulance from take-off to landing. Fantastic! I think the bloke next to me needed some new pants! Remember when I was terrified of flying? My how things change!
26 days ago
The insomnia monster has me. I'm tired but my brain just won't turn off! Time to resort to hot milk. Which, incidentally, never works because by the time you've overheated the milk in the microwave and had to clean it all up you're more awake than you were before you even started.
38 days ago
I couldn't even last 48 hours - I've registered on the next OU course already. I haven't even finished my 'got-through-my-3rd-year-and-MST209' celebratory bottle of wine yet and I've gone and signed up to a short science course to do until the my next maths one starts in January. Some people are addicted to alcohol but me...? I'm addicted to the Open University. Until January (which will be pure maths or statistics, I can't decide) I'm going to do a short course about forensic science. How cool is that?! So, anyway, you might be wondering how the exam went on Friday. Then again you might not. I didn't have another 'polo-rolling-down-the-desk' incident this year. Instead I had the 'fruit-pastilles-on-the-floor' incident. Followed by a 'how do I fill out the front pages?' conflab with one of the ancient invigilators. Me: "Do I write down ALL the numbers of the questions I've answered here?" Him: "Yes" Me: "Are you sure?" ...
40 days ago
Good luck to anyone taking the OU MST209 exam this morning! I've woken up a bundle of nerves. A week of solid revision finally at an end. Today is scary, a whole year's work boiling down to just three hours of frantic writing. I keep saying to myself it doesn't matter because I almost quit halfway through the year so haven't lost anything by trying. But the truth is that now I've finally gotten to the end of this year's course I don't want all that blood, sweat and tears to amount to nothing. So, here goes.
45 days ago
Revision time has arrived again. MST209 exam on Friday. The problem is that I can't remember half the course - I seemed to have studied it to complete the assignments and then promptly forgotten it all! Very helpful indeed. Hm. Well I have the week off work in order to cram the maths in.... The thing is, it's only day two of six. Of six days of solitude. And it's DRIVING ME MAD. I am craving outside world. Contact with... real people! It's all well and good having a chat on the phone but you can't beat a cup of tea with a real life person... And who can one ring at 1am on a Monday morning anyway? Um. I don't think the Samaritan's would be too interested in a conversation about whether I should have bought those custard creams because perhaps bourbons are better. I should have bought the bourbons.
