Yay!!!!!!!! That's me and the OU done until September!
Thursday, 16 Jun 2011, 16:26
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And can I say what a horrible anusan annus horribilis of a year it's been... I've encountered some right horrible annuses in the past, but this annus takes the biscuit. Or 'Bisquit' as a certain bronx panda might put it...
Anyhoo. A210 finally dust and donéd, and no wonder they've finally put the ol' turkey (or 'toikey', as a certain bronx panda might put it) to bed.
A big thank you, BTW (and if she's reading or if someone points her in this direction), to our lovely tutor LAJ who has justmade the course bearable, and to those of my fellow students who a) made the tutorials and b) listened patiently to the wild theories I espoused on Literature, Poetry, Femininininism and Life the Universe and Everything (42, by the way) .
So, next year I will mostly be doing Children's Lit EA300, a course I have middling hopes (I rarely have high hopes these days, finding myself unequal to the disappointment of having them dashed anymore, so I always try to hedge my bets) of actually enjoying. Sadly, still writing essays rather than what I enjoy writing, but serves me bloody-well right for doing all the good stuff first! I have a great deal of admiration for those who 'save the best bit for last', but I tend to feel the same way about that as I do about 'high hopes', and wouldn't want to drop dead eating cauliflower while my Beef Wellington went soggy on the other side of the metaphorical plate.
Oh. For anyone wondering, BTW, I did questions 2, 5 and 8 (I think?) - one about blokey priorities (sex and drugs and rock 'n' roll followed by a nice kip), one about wimmin escapologists(?) (That threw me - I don't remember any of that in the lit, but luckily I had a bit of background knowledge regarding Hilary Houdini - Harry's little sister - after attending a street theatre workshop in Worksop where I attempted to emulate her reknowned 'fighting my way out of a wet paper bag' trick), and a final one on pomes and the way wimmin harp on about what a struggle it all is.... *whistle*
Oh well, onwards, upward, leftwards and rightwards with a little bit of forwards and backwards thrown in. Whatever OU course you are doing I hope you enjoy it more than I haven't, and that any exams you might have to sit are filled with 'bloody hell, that was lucky' questions suited to the minimal amount of revision you forced yourself to undertake between eating bisquits, toikeys, cauliflowers and beef-wellingtons. and if you happen to be one of those people who saves the best bit until last, has high hopes and revises thoroughly, gawd bless you too, and I hope you find time to celebrate tonight with a small glass of vimto and a celebratory packet of cheese thins. Just the one, mind...
Yay!!!!!!!! That's me and the OU done until September!
And can I say what
a horrible anusan annus horribilis of a year it's been... I've encountered some right horrible annuses in the past, but this annus takes the biscuit. Or 'Bisquit' as a certain bronx panda might put it...Anyhoo. A210 finally dust and donéd, and no wonder they've finally put the ol' turkey (or 'toikey', as a certain bronx panda might put it) to bed.
A big thank you, BTW (and if she's reading or if someone points her in this direction), to our lovely tutor LAJ who has justmade the course bearable, and to those of my fellow students who a) made the tutorials and b) listened patiently to the wild theories I espoused on Literature, Poetry, Femininininism and Life the Universe and Everything (42, by the way) .
So, next year I will mostly be doing Children's Lit EA300, a course I have middling hopes (I rarely have high hopes these days, finding myself unequal to the disappointment of having them dashed anymore, so I always try to hedge my bets) of actually enjoying. Sadly, still writing essays rather than what I enjoy writing, but serves me bloody-well right for doing all the good stuff first! I have a great deal of admiration for those who 'save the best bit for last', but I tend to feel the same way about that as I do about 'high hopes', and wouldn't want to drop dead eating cauliflower while my Beef Wellington went soggy on the other side of the metaphorical plate.
Oh. For anyone wondering, BTW, I did questions 2, 5 and 8 (I think?) - one about blokey priorities (sex and drugs and rock 'n' roll followed by a nice kip), one about wimmin escapologists(?) (That threw me - I don't remember any of that in the lit, but luckily I had a bit of background knowledge regarding Hilary Houdini - Harry's little sister - after attending a street theatre workshop in Worksop where I attempted to emulate her reknowned 'fighting my way out of a wet paper bag' trick), and a final one on pomes and the way wimmin harp on about what a struggle it all is.... *whistle*
Oh well, onwards, upward, leftwards and rightwards with a little bit of forwards and backwards thrown in. Whatever OU course you are doing I hope you enjoy it more than I haven't, and that any exams you might have to sit are filled with 'bloody hell, that was lucky' questions suited to the minimal amount of revision you forced yourself to undertake between eating bisquits, toikeys, cauliflowers and beef-wellingtons. and if you happen to be one of those people who saves the best bit until last, has high hopes and revises thoroughly, gawd bless you too, and I hope you find time to celebrate tonight with a small glass of vimto and a celebratory packet of cheese thins. Just the one, mind...
L8rs T8rs
David :D