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I know a few OUers have posted comments as general blog-readers rather than people specifically directed to read my blog - I just wanted to let you know that you are all brilliant as well.  Thank you for your well wishes, and thank you for your happy responses to the biopsy results post.  Obviously I was rather pleased with the results; I expected friends and family to be similarly pleased for me; having my “random strangers” (as one of you named yourselves) tell me I’ve made their day too is just wonderful!  That’s probably one of the things that’s taking the most adjusting to right now – yes, I say to my husband perplexedly, obviously people are happy for me...but everyone is just so over the moon...

To Simon specifically – I’ve been pretty determined not to give it a name, but Benny might just stick as that’s a fabulous suggestion!  I was commuting to work this morning on the tube (I only have to do this once a week – work at home the rest of the time) and I saw a lady with one of those ‘Baby on Board’ badges.  It made me think of your suggestion that there must be something to get out of this – I now want a badge to wear when commuting, though ‘Benny on Board’ will mean nothing to almost everyone!

In OU-related news: Wednesday (3^rd) would have been exam day for S383 (relativistic universe).  I was all set to withdraw, but the nice man on the phone talked me in to deferring (I’ll admit that wasn’t too hard) – because if right now I deferred for the next presentation (with assessment banking) I could later turn that in to a deferral for the presentation after (without), or even a complete withdrawal, if that turned out to be necessary.  One reason I’d been set on withdrawal was that the deferral regs say that you have to complete your deferred module before you can start another.  Having got 95% of the way through S383 (two weeks and one assignment left!) I couldn’t quite stand the thought of doing the whole 95% all over again just to get those last little bits.  But, because both S383 and my next module are 30 pointers, they said it was fine for me to do the deferred S383 alongside.  So I can have new things to learn to provide suitable enthusiasm, but must try and remember everything so that this time next year I can get through two exams at once... (oh, damn, just realised I’ll be doing deferred relativity alongside new quantum mechanics.  Might have to rethink this...)