This Week

[muninnhuginn]

The good:

• Placed confirmed on Manchester Radio Astronomy course next year
• Bought dress to wear to wedding in August (now only need shoes and a new handbag)
• Finished a pair of socks
• Watched Looby Loo song as part of a 1200-strong massed choir in the Albert Hall

The relief:

• The car that took out the traffic lights outside the house this morning when its driver fell asleep at the wheel swerved right (so we still have a car and a front window)

The less good:

• Insufficient studying
• Insufficient writing
• Insufficient reading time (and I'm beginning to feel the need for actual new books)

Goes off muttering: I have not yet bought books this year; I will not buy books this year.

Comments

[purplecthulhu.livejournal.com]

Tell me more about the Jodrell course!

[muninnhuginn]

It's Exploring the Radio Universe which added to the Maths for Sciences and Introduction to Astronomy that I've already got (via the OU) plus the two OU courses I'm currently doing (Planets: an introduction & How the Universe Works) will eventually give me an actual undergraduate-level astronomy qualification later on next year. (I think this is appropriate somehow: accidentally ending up doing Physics-of-some-sorts runs in the family.)

All a bit of a panic: I had intended to apply to do the Manchester course next year, but it's now my last chance as it's all going to stop. So I put in a very hasty application--far scarier than just paying up for the OU--at the end of last month and had to keep my fingers crossed.

Of course, I now have a dilemma as I'm not sure what to do next (or even in the potential empty Autumn, if I finish the current stuff quickly): going back to maths was lovely; planetary sciences is lovely; cosmology, lovely. And I can't fit all of it in. (Odd: when I was a "proper" undergraduate I ultimately had no problem in deciding where to specialise.)