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Date: 27 April 2004 20:19:28
I'm really chuffed with myself that I managed to get the phrase “decentred interconnectedness” into one of my exam answers. It's something that a friend of mine dropped casually into a conversation a few months ago and wondered why we all laughed at him, and I've wanted to find a way to drop it into an essay ever since.
Anyway, it's over (for now). I started with my usual prayer of preparation for exams, from Jeremiah 33:3: “Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know”. Very apt.
Revision was a bit fraught. Usually with my OU modules I always feel when I'm doing the coursework whilst working full-time like I can only skim the material (as there's always so much of it), but when I come to those last few days before the exam when I'm revising it all seems to slot into place and make sense and then I wish I'd had enough time to have engaged properly with the material while I was studying it, but at least I've got it now and it means that I can write well in the exam (blimey that was a long sentence!). This time, although I found the material really interesting, I still had to skim it, but when it came to revision, although it was interesting I never had that ker-CHING!!! light bulb moment where it all crashes into place. Oh well, we'll see what happens - it's out of my hands now. As long as I pass it, it should be my last exam ever - everything else from hereon in will be squillion word dissertations.
I'm mildly embarrassed by Yay's admiring comments on my last blog entry. Actually, I must confess that despite saying I would be offline for a few days, I did have a few sneaky peaks at the internet. In my defence, it was mainly when I was revising the theory of ecofeminism, which was making me lose the will to live, so I really needed some light relief. Actually I'm sure I'd have some sympathy with the ecofeminists, if only they would write articles in plain English and not be so up themselves. Oh well, at least I never have to read any more about it ever again (she says, assuming she doesn't have to resit the exam!).
Anyway, now I'm back and have caught up with everyone's blogs. And what do I find? Arti is heading for Guinness Book of Records stardom, Yay narrowly avoided a chainsaw massacre, Euty's garden received some unexpected fertilisation, and somehow I'm going to have to smuggle a cake with a file in it to Smudgie. Honestly, you just turn your back for 5 minutes .....! And as if that wasn't enough, <img src="http://www.wibsite.com/wiblogimage/maddie_c.gif">