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Yesterday was a really positive day:

  • Because I actually slept for six hours last night, rather than fretting and not sleeping pre my early uni start.

  • My 'Sense of Place - 1984' has come back with 68 % (tweak it a gnats and I have a first :-D)

  • Have had a glowing report of work from main lecturer who says I am a good, hard-working student.

  • I am now up to date and therefore not stressy anymore.

  • I am better at poetry than I thought I was.

  • The satellite has now been fixed, which means for the first time in weeks, I can take time off and watch some telly.

​Really pleased that it is going well, but I have quite a lot to get done within the next few months, including; writing/illustrating a child's book; essay on Modernism; prepare a piece of writing about a historical person involved in development of Cornish identity; 19th century literature analysis; and read Passage to India very, very soon.  Oh, and Du Maurier (read Jamaica Inn already, will have to read Rebecca).
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ExpandAnd I want You So, It's An Obsession )
Eurythmics seem to be featuring heavily in my life at the moment - ironic bearing in mind my dream entry just now.  Think it's because I am writing the 1984 essay - or at least trying to.  I must admit it is looking a LOT better than a few days back.  Today is the last day I can write it before the deadline.  If I can't finish, the deadline is email by Sunday.
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When I read 1984 in 1984, I was sixteen years old as part of my 'O' level English (now renamed GCSEs). For reasons known to myself, I was not able to finish the course and the book has been on my conscience ever since.  I have an interested in dystopian societies and even as a young adult, I was drawn back to this book.  When I was asked to find a book that would convey 'Sense of Place,' I went back to 1984 as it is the perfect book that conjures up a bleak impoverished police state. I am stuck and have spent hours trying to get unstuck on this.  Mostly it is about too much to say in too little time.

I have a framework to follow and I am only about halfway down the discourse - I have blown 1,100 words already on a 1,650 limit and I am not even half way through.  I have until Friday, but in reality I have only got til tonight to get most of it done.  Tomorrow is taken up by another assignment, that in theory shouldn't take long - but in practice may just swallow up two days.  I am at college the day after that and have an engagement in the evening that I can't get out of.  This leaves me Thursday to get it done.  Another assignment is on hold, simply because I haven't had the time, but the deadline was a little more flexible. Yet another is pending soon after.

One may argue as to why I am on here - good question.  I am on a break because I have drawn a blank. I have a very personal reason to see the back of this - it is 30 years ago exactly that I had to walk away from my education.  I need to slay this Hydra.  I remember having a similar problem this time last year re Wuthering Heights - somehow I managed to get through it, but the marks weren't as good as I had hoped.

*bangs head on desk* - OK - back to work.



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