Foreign Perspectives

I find that we don’t really think of when the kids go back to school after Christmas until it’s time for them to get the school bags packed. So it was a nice surprise to find that after we’d them all packed for today that they don’t actually go back to school until tomorrow.

That gives me a little more time to play with too. And I need it too as I’ve only just started the archaeology assignment which is due by noon on Friday. I’ll get an extension of it as the delay is basically down to the combination of food poisoning and some kind of flu-thing that felled me for getting on for three weeks. Somehow I don’t think that I’ll hit Friday but, all being well, I shouldn’t be more than a few days late.

Which leaves the medicine (SK185) ECA to complete. That shouldn’t take more than a day or two at most though. After that there’s the microbes course (S171) but it’s a background course for me so no great rush as the assignment isn’t due ’til the end of April.

That doesn’t count the main course which, for this year, is biology (S204) that has a page count easily twice that of any other course I’ve done. Having said that, the course team writing the thing got completely carried away and these days quite a lot of those pages aren’t included in the course for various reasons. For example, there are three separate strands starting from around the second month and you only need to do two of those (plants/microbes/animals) although I suspect that the choice of which two will need some thought. My theory is that I’ll do animals and microbes at the moment which’ll ease the microbe course and should help in my planned schedule over the next couple of years. That said, I’ll need some of the plants bit for my plants residential in July.

Oh, and not to forget TT281 although I’m hoping that it will fly just as quickly as TT280 did.