While I hate to be one to state the obvious: this blog has been horrendously neglected.
I'm assuming no-ones been hovering around desperate for an update but still, its an appallingly neglected blog and for some reason I have genuine guilt about that so I figure the only way to counteract that is to get off my butt (figuratively obviously, I'm blogging from the sofa) and get blogging again.
Since the last time I updated was September (yes, I did have to go check that on the main page) I think it might be worth mentioning that I did eventually get my End of Module Assessment submitted and by some miracle managed to pass DD101 with Distinction. Hurrah! I was naturally insanely excited about this and there was much enthusiasm for the beginning of W100.
Unfortunately this enthusiasm lasted precisely as long as it took to open the first text book before I realised what a terrible, terrible mistake taking a Law module had been. I feel like I should point out that this is in no way a winge about the OU, their Law department, or the course material. They are, quite frankly, the best possible examples of what is sadly an incredibly dull subject. Obviously with anything like this it's completely subjective, I'm sure my mind numbing tedium is another persons thrilling and life affirming journey into education. Sadly knowing this does not make ploughing through this module any easier or any more rewarding.
My overall course is a Combined Social Science BA with a Politics specialty and to do this meant taking an additional level 1 module to effectively bulk my credits out. Out of the choices I kind of thought Law would be the most directly connected and applicable to a Politics degree and that having a good understanding of the legal system would tie well into having a working knowledge of the political systems around it. Unfortunately Social Science and Law are polar opposite subjects and the enthusiasm and interest of DD101 is just not there in W100, my assignment scores are lower, its a real struggle to make myself do the reading and I have little to no interest in doing anything above the bare minimum required to pass this module. I feel like I spend 50% of my study time for W100 reminding myself of the phrase 'a means to an end' and the other 50% reading news articles to remind myself what I'm doing this for and what the end goal is.
Complaining aside the other important study change is my move to being an official 'Full Time Student'. Ho.Ly.Crap. Putting that in writing makes it seem like a real thing that is actually happening and that's a bit odd but also completely brilliant. Even if just for the purpose of making myself feel better and also slightly less of a thicko!
Moving to full time does have the bonus of meaning that, alongside the dreaded W100, I'm now studying DD206 which is incomparably more interesting and a lot easier to get through. Social Science is without a doubt a much better subject area for me, I find it more interesting which naturally makes it easier to learn and considerably less of a chore to get through. I was a bit worried in October that when February came around the full time workload would be too much but I'm finding that having to completely different modules actually makes it a little bit easier somehow.
In less OU related news (feel free to click back now) the other major change is moving to a new job. Working for a certain call center was a job I really didn't mind all that much and had been in for quite a while but ended up essentially unbearable in the space of a month for a reason I really don't feel the need to waste time blogging about. The upside is that my absolute misery of my job was the kick in the butt I needed to go change things and I've ended up in a new job with lovely 9-5 Monday-Friday hours which is making fitting the huge amounts of reading in considerably easier than it was in between the ridiculous shifts I was working before hand.
After all of that I think I may have just wrote a full page blog post to basically say 'everything always works out in the end' and that all in all things aren't going too bad at the moment.
