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TMA 01 has now been passed. Our tutor has had to extend the marking of our TMA, and I always get nervous when waiting for a mark because I’m scared I won’t pass, but I guess that is the same with everyone.

I am so glad that I have three days off. I did try to book this week off, but I couldn’t get Thursday and Friday off. I tried for next week and couldn’t get Friday off, so I booked Wednesday and Thursday off and on Friday, but then I have the whole week. I have tried getting a week off for ages and am looking forward to an entire week off.

I am still studying last week's schedule, but I will finish that today, well, this morning, and I will start and complete this week's schedule. Then, I will study the following week's schedule so I am a week ahead. I was looking at the schedule and aim to get to the poetry section during my week off; I’m not looking to study the whole part. I am looking to check my TMA in the morning and the pottery part of the module study in the afternoon; I say the afternoon because I am thinking of going to the library either at Central MK or Westcroft. I think getting out of the house is a good idea. Also, before studying, I can write things down at the library, like the smells, sounds, touch, etc. I am always sitting in my room, and I need to get out; I want to be a writer, but I will be a bedroom writer if I don’t get out of this room, and the last thing I want is not to be a good writer because I was lazy.

So, I have a plan: will I go to the library daily? That is the question. If I do it, I will go on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday. Wednesday, I think I might go to the pictures. I will be the only one-off, so I might go and enjoy myself by myself, and since everyone should be either at school or work, I hope I will be the only or the least quiet one there. What will I see? Again, I don’t know. I’ll look and see what’s up there. I am a member, so I pay once a month, and then boom! I can see what I like. I’m very excited about that.

I have thought about starting my own YouTube channel and am still on the fence because I still haven’t finished Jamie-Lynn’s Things I Should Have Said. This book has many opinions due to Jamie-Lynn’s involvement with Britney Spears or lack thereof. Before I started reading Britney’s The Woman in Me, I thought I should let Jamie-Lynn have her say first and then read Britney, but I have not even finished the book, and that will not work on a YouTube channel. I have many opinions because I am so into pop culture right now, and when I talk about it with my sister or my daughter, they are both like, ‘I have no idea what you’re talking about’, and it’s like? How do you not know about this, that, and the other? It’s a hot topic right now. They watch TikTok, and I don’t; I watch YouTube.

I have a busy schedule today, and I will complete next week’s schedule this week in time for the following tutorial, which is all about TMA 02. I know how to research as I had a one-to-one with a tutor, and I asked for advice about how to study because I didn’t have a baseline to go off, so I was stuck. I missed our first meeting and was so upset, so I am happy that he gave me a second chance. I ensured nothing stood in the way of our meeting because I had the most awful migraine the first time and then forgot. So, I made sure I didn’t forget, and because I believe that the reason that I am having problems with sleeping is because of the medication, I have cut myself back. I have, too. I cannot keep going through it like something is wrong with me. I know they help me sleep, but there are other ways to help me sleep that do not make me feel like I am losing my mind.

I'm doing better and feel better; yes, I remember things slightly better than before, so I will hopefully get better at remembering to get better at my job.

I hope you all had a good weekend and have a good week.

Bye for now xx