Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.

Monday, it seems, despite getting off to a rather rocky start was a pretty good day.

The rocky start was pulling up at the petrol station and realising I’d not got my purse. Turn around, drive 15 minutes back home, grab my purse, fill up… and drive straight into roadworks in Norton *facepalm* I got to work 10 minutes late but hey, who exactly is going to know that since… oh, right I was all on my own.

With no work.

I got a lot of Frontierville missions accomplished mind!

No, to be fair, there was a fair amount of post that lasted me probably through til mid-afternoon but then I was going slowly and playing Frontierville at the same time. If I’d concentrated solely on invoices I would have been done by lunch.

A moment of self-congratulation and pride happened too. We had over £18k worth of cheques come in and I had to do the banking. Now, I know how to do the banking – credit control basics people! – but have never done it for QMP myself before. So getting that done made me feel quite good.

And then I had some fantastic news. The stress and panic of my assignments on Cleopatra and Cezanne was well worth it. I got my results back today with a 70/100.
Now, my assignment booklet says that 70 is

[a grade] awarded for work that is well-constructed, well-argued and clearly written; which is well supported by evidence or argument; and which shows and intelligent grasp of the study materials

The grade was split 34/50 for Cleopatra and 36/50 for Cezanne. My tutors comments were for Cleopatra

This was a very good answer in many respects – well done! You responded sensitively to Dio’s account and picked up on most of the more significant aspects of his attitude towards Cleopatra. You left out references in a few places and at one point repeated something you had already said but in a different way. However you established Dio’s place among other Roman authors who criticized Cleopatra, quite clearly. You tend to write in short paragraphs: note where i have suggested you merge them. Otherwise – great!

and for Cezanne

This is a sensitive response to Cezanne’s painting, Paula, and I could tell you understood the course materials and why the work was so scathingly dismissed. You made some important points but at times your phrasing is a bit askew, especially in the second half of the essay. Perhaps you might like to have another attempt at some of these sentences for TMA02?

But a good start to the course overall – well done!

So yes, very pleased indeed.
*PREEEENS*

And huge thank you to EVERYONE for the handholding and backrubbing and cheerleading.