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Saturday, November 15th, 2003
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1:44p
Well, essay is done and over and handed in, grossly over the word count. Well, not grossly, about 400 words, which I hope is ok. They don't ask you to declare the words so I'm assuming it's not a hanging offence. and if it is, then I guess you'll just have to get the noose out.
At least, thank god, my pseudo-flu is going away. I did go to Leeds yesterday, wrapped up well, but running across some of the roads, which you have to do because of the carefully composed insanity of the traffic lights, did bring back my long gone asthma. Basically, I took it easy and dawdled up to the Parkinson building, handed in my essay and went to my Divine and Diviners lecture.
I think I might be starting to actively dislike Professor Levene. I hope not - we spend one hour a fortnight alone in his office and when I feel bullied by someone I don't like it's only a matter of time before I start retaliating, which could end up being messy. Anyway, soon I'm going to have to go and do his reading, which I would have started last week but for the crippling illness.
I bought pretty things yesterday though: a new zip-front red hoody jacket thing from H&M and Sting's new book, Broken Music which really cheered me up last Friday when I was feeling depressed and suicidal after my Levene session. I thought I owed him the price of a hardback book after that! It surprised me by being really quite well written, or certainly very readable. It's basically the story of his early life, before he became really famous, and it's fascinating, I know because I was up until four o'clock last night reading it! It's making me want to quit the sensible life and try to be a writer properly...but I'm too pragmatic - plus I've paid them all that money. I'm a Yorkshire woman; I don't give up money that easily!
I was looking into jobs with the Civil Service on the net. The Department for Education and Skills has its main secondary branch in Sheffield (the main main one being in London of course) and I think I might even like working for them. Schools and education interest me, they always have, and besides being a teacher, I can't really think of a job in education besides that. Schools inspectors, governers, administrators and so on all got to those jobs through teaching. I think if I was going to be a teacher I'd be an English teacher rather than a Classics teacher, becaue then I could work in state schools. I've heard of exactly one state school that teaches classics. Mine. I'm not sure if R. would be able to cope with that!
Anyway, the News Quiz is almost over, and there's lots of work to be done.
current mood:  blah
current music: The News Quiz::Radio 4 (comment on this)
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