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Uni: Week 8

Finally got back to university today. The workshop today was ‘Revisiting Verse’. The tutor played us a piece of music and we had to write down our impressions, then write a poem. Not my strongest subject, but I gave it a bash. I wrote a narrative poem. It was okay, but I didn’t read it out.

I might try the same thing in future, if I get writer’s block.

University update: Week 7

I haven’t written much of anything about university this year. That’s because, after the first two weeks this term I haven’t been. For various reasons the workshops have been cancelled.

Week 3 – tutor sick, no replacement available

Week 4 – tutor sick, no replacement available

Week 5 – reading week

Week 6 – cancelled due to snow

Week 7 : Authorised absence

Only this week have I been responsible for me not turning up, and that’s because I had my first ASC Diagnostic team appointment. I arranged an authorised absence for Wednesday.

According to a colleague, I didn’t miss much; the tutor was still not up to snuff so he showed a film called Fat man on a beach by B. S. Johnson. This isn’t Bloody Stupid Johnson, famed architect and inventor of Ankh-Morpork, but another with the same initials. The film was quite daft, but the discussion got philosophical, and all I can think is did STP know of this film and film maker? Because something that obscure would appeal to him.

There are two weeks left before the end of term, my assessment booklets have arrived – they’re getting the proof copies, not ones I plan to sell. After the Easter break there are three weeks of workshops and I understand that at some point there will be three extra sessions to make up for the three cancelled workshops.

Then it’s on to the dissertation.

I probably won’t be reviewing many books between May and September.

Enjoy your weekend, I will be reading books and cuddling my hounds.