The summer hols are almost over once more - thank god. It's been trying, as always, and I'll be glad when I no longer need to arrange childcare for Rowan while I'm at work ( Read more... )

My current course is almost over now - thank god! - and I'm in the process of signing up for the new one starting in October. On looking through the application form for financial aid, I noticed for the first time that there's actually a limit to how long you can continue to study while getting help towards your course fees - on reflection, this is ( Read more... )

Does anyone have any first-hand experience with an Amazon Kindle ( Read more... )

Well, next week anyway!

We're approaching the seventh and final week of the school holidays, and Rowan starts Year Four next week. We called it Standard Two when I was in Primary School. Three more years then he goes up to High School! Iesu Grist....I've taken next week off work, because summer camps only usually run until the last Friday of ( Read more... )

My exam for the current OU course was today *exhales in relief* I certainly don't think I aced it, but I did at least find something to write about for each part; four definitions of linguistic terms, an analysis of a transcript and an essay question. Don't think I wrote anywhere near as much I should have done, but meh. As long as I get more than ( Read more... )

Today was my annual appraisal - been with the company seven years now! o.O I always dread these things, as I'm not comfortable talking about myself and never know what they actually want of me - management-ese sucks! Last year I actually burst into tears, even though my manager at the time wasn't being nasty with me. I just get that defensive and ( Read more... )

My next assignment is due noon Wednesday and, while I've managed to meet the required word-count, I am entirely lost on how to conclude the essay for part two ( Read more... )

So, a week or so back I posted about my current assignment for the OU, looking into 'Workplace Discourse Communities'. Now, my workplace has a number of good examples I can use for my essay, but I was talking to my Dad about it the other day and got to wondering about how language is used in other workplaces ( Read more... )

Despite only submitting my last assignment a week ago, I have less than a month in which to complete the next one! *brain frazzle ( Read more... )

I recently made a post to my LJ asking that the f-list help me with my research for my current Open University assignment, in which I had to write an essay on a specific word of my choice. Thank you ever so much to those who kindly responded ( Read more... )