Well, that last post is the perfect indication of a very confused young man: frantically rushing to complete an article in time before Wednesday finishes when Wednesday is just beginning! If this is any indication of what this year will offer I might as well give up now. But I remember last year beginning very optimistically and then descending into what it did, so if the logic works the other way, this year should be the best year of my life. I'm planning a trip to Japan with Adam in June (after this flaming OU Course has come to a welcome end) and there's a trip to Belgium with Yarema on the cards, so it should really be a brighter, happier year.
Just a quick note about the OU, though, with regard to the quality of this year beginning. I've done brilliantly in the last two assignments. You remember I gained 76% in TMA02, and then wrote up a bit about it in my following article? Yes, good. Well TMA05 is the next one on the cards, and if you like, it seems I've completely passed over TMAs 03 and 04. TMA04 has just been finished and returned to me. But first TMA03: I got a lovely 46%. It was about the architecture of the Colosseum and its symbolic place in the Roman Empire. In the comments from my tutor, I was told I'd obviously enjoyed it. Not enough to get me to write a good essay though. So with that in mind, I think I wanted to make a concerted effort not to enjoy this work for TMA04 on the History of the French Revolution, in the hope that (like my theory for year beginnings vs. eventual outcomes) I would write a good essay and get a good grade. No such luck, at all. I got 39%. A comprehensive fail. So I don't know that there's anything left to try really. Since the beginning I've tried writing really fantastically, I've tried enjoying it and not enjoying it (I need a word for the opposite of enjoying, but not quite hate - something that is its binary opposite with no other connotations enclosed in it. Dislike also won't do, because it's slightly different), I've tried writing with the theme of the content, in lovely flowing sentences (according to my possibly incorrect taste, of course) and writing completely uncolloquially and seriously. For this last one I even more or less abandoned writing in complete sentences in the hope that clarity will have no chance of being lost in real sentences, and I tried to be so damn dilligent with answering the question directly, not straying off the point for a single sentence. I think all I need is a guitar really, and someone to listen to me. I'm not for this academic work. I think when I have to write with words I can't provide markers with what they want of a student, but with numbers there can be no chance for them to give me rubbish marks (provided I got the answer right, of course). But perhaps I'm just plain stupid full-stop. Let me now just privately thank the good lord himself that no teachers will be reading this and giving me a goddamned mark for it. I'd just be picked up for glossing over that previous sentence about me being 'just plain stupid' (quote: Miblo - 'It was still Wednesday!'), or for going over my fucking word limit. Ah, shit it! Shit it all!
So, all in all, it looks like a good year to come by all accounts.
