Long Time No See

Woah, has it been that long since I’ve been on here! Uni has sort of taken over my life in this last month but in a good way because I’m really enjoying it so far. The workload is noticably increased and I tend to get a little on edge a couple of times a week about my abilities to get through it all and unfortunately my family are just waiting in the firing line of my anger (wanted a slightly less powerful word there but couldn’t think of one). I try to control my mouth as much as possible and spend as much time at uni as I can on the days that I need to be in to make the most of the quiet library.

This week has been a bit more relaxed because one of my seminars was cancelled. I’ve thus had a bit of catch up time although not enough – on top of my usual workload I’m supposed to be writing an essay at the moment. The topic is the relationship between gender and nation in the First World War. I thought it was impossible at first, especially since I didn’t understand the question, but I did my first bit of reading for it today and actually found it quite engaging.

Dancing’s not been so good lately. My module on Victorians is on the same night as my dance class so I can’t make it there any more and Adele seems a little reluctant to go to another class on a Wednesday. Also, I’m just so tired of an evening, the last thing I want to do is dance! However, I’m going to a social dance tomorrow night, so that should be good.

I’m going away for the weekend soon with the CU from uni and I’m really looking forward to it. It’ll be nice to get away and break up this long autumn term. I’ve got a fair few (self-imposed) study deadlines before that though, so I need to keep focused.

My sister has been running an evening course in Beginner’s IT for OAPs these last three weeks and after a disastorous first lesson, I’ve been going along to help out. I’m really enjoying it and I think it’s confirming my intentions of going into teaching. However, it is so difficult to explain those things that we take for granted in IT. One lady in the group inserted some text into a prepared word document, as was instructed in the task sheet, and, when she’d completed it, she asked me how to get rid of the flashing cursor. I asked her why she wanted to get rid of it and she replied because she’d finished that task and didn’t need it anymore. I explained that it would keep flashing there until she moved it to the appropriate place for the next task and she couldn’t understand why it should do that. I couldn’t think what else to say! Next week we’re moving on to spreadsheets and I can see that that will be a complete nightmare for them.