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I woke up today, it was still just morning, read a bit of Jeeves and Wooster to stop me thinking and then, the thought could not be stopped, realized that I couldn't think of anything horrid that I'd done in yesterday's exam. I got up, did some gardening with my wife, who has been horribly neglected of late and wrote a few posts in the fora. I found that I had nothing to do.

Well that's not true, come Monday there will be work hellishness, still nothing that I haven't coped with in the past, old, old, horrid stuff. And I have to get the gas bill problem sorted out and a lot of the unopened mail looks a bit sinister, some of them look like they are from the bank, are they going to turn-off the money supply? My blog has gone staler than some of the stuff that's in the cupboards. I hate real life.

What I do have to do is to get registered for my next courses. This would be easy if I had pots of money but I haven't and, because in Scotland you get these things paid for you, I need to talk to non-OU people. I could just go the OUSB way but that would cost me actual cash. So I have to deal with people who's job is to ensure that I'm not some kind of chancer; if they weren't fascist twats when they took the job....

Still I'm two modules away from a degree. About this time next year I can walk away from this. I won't but I can. I don't know how I should feel about that.

Recently someone on a course forum asked me to post the modules that I have done. I was surprised by the length my reply, It lookedas if I was really clever. Am I? Doubt it. My OU journey has well-taught me the infinite value of the limit-of attribute of my ignorence.Still, I've discovered that I always want to be learning.

There's another side to this, yesterday as I was sat, on the carpeted floor, waiting for the exam to start I loved the fact that my coursemates and I were talking, nobody else seemed to be doing that. [I did talk to a teacher from one of my old schools who was doing an MA but once we started talking code...] We were, not exactly happy, but at least together.

It's the people. 

That's what I love: the people I meet in the real, the people that I meet in the fora, the people that I have eluminate sessions with... . I suppose that I could do this by myself but I wouldn't. The OU is a heady mixture of knowledge and folks.

I'm not going to stop doing this am I?

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