New Year

Mmm, this is nice, isn't it? It's just after 3.00 in the afternoon, and the storm has arrived in Edinburgh... this is the view from my flat window!

Glad I'm not going to be out, squashed into Princes Street with everyone else, getting wet and blown over by 90mph winds tonight then.... What happened to nice cold New Years? I'm sure I remember at least a couple...

Sequences

So what else is there to do over Xm*s other than get on with my next course? Hurrah!

Been wrestling with sequence stratigraphy for the last couple of days. Sounds very arcane, doesn't it? Actually, though, it's not as complicated as I thought it might be - or maybe that's because I haven't got very far yet! Lots of new terms to learn though - and abbreviations - but I think it's making sense.

Think I'll try and summarise some of the pertinent points tomorrow - so watch this space!

In the meantime - got a signal booster for the Freeview card in the PC, so the reception is infinitely better. And there are some surprisingly interesting films on this Xm*s - which, in itself, is somewhat surprising...

Exam results!

So the results are out at last - what a long time the OU makes you wait! And as you can see, I've not been on here since... oh well... can be a new year resolution... be better at blogging.

Anyway, exam results. Very pleased with mine - managed two distinctions in geology and ecology - hurrah! Got a Pass 2 for the geology summer school, and a pass for the maffs course (they're not graded, but I got 90% - which I thought was pretty good for someone who wasn't really sure about maffs...)

Very pleased with the ecology result, cos that means I only need a distinction in one more 30 point Level 3 course to get a First when I graduate :O) And I've got three more goes at getting one...

Now getting a First didn't seem that important when I first set out doing this degree stuff. In fact, I was really only doing this for interest - then I thought, might as well go for a degree. And now I could possibly get a First, well, that would be nice, wouldn't it?

So, on to next year - already got the S369 stuff and waiting for the oceanography books to show up... So more about all that next time.