Well, I'm still no better healthwise!
I'm really getting fed up with not being well and, more to the point, not being able to concentrate long enough to do my O.U. work! Pshwaaa!
I've managed to print out the 'Washing Day' poem, so that I can study it, and scribble all over it as much as I need to (I absolutely hate to write in books, so this is a better bet for me!), but still haven't found the energy necessary enough to do an in-depth analysis of it.
It's a real shame, as I'm really getting to like the poem - but I'm finding that the concentration needed to focus on rhyme, rhythm, alliteration etc., is just beyond me at the moment.
I've a feeling that I'm going to be asking for an extention on this one, which is something I hate the thought of, as it will then make me behind with all the work to come - I guess I'll have to see how I get on over the next week or so, as the 10th of May is almost upon me already!
I've been looking around for alternatives to all the tablets I'm taking for my various complaints, and have come across a tincture called knotgrass, that is supposed to be especially good for both Fibromyalgia and Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, so I'm going to be ordering some in the next few days to see how I get on with it - it's got to be better for me than all the artificial chemicals I'm having to take now!
I'm thoroughly enjoying this good weather, although my husband, Bob, is hoping for rain to water our veg. patch. At least I'm able to look out the window into our garden, and the field beyond where our sheep are grazing!
A view through the window of my crafting life.
Sunday, April 29, 2007
Thursday, April 12, 2007
It's been a long time . . .
Well - I didn't realize it'd been so long since my last blog!
I've just spent the previous 5 months battling ill-health, due to the onset of Lymphodaema in my right leg, as well as my Fibromyalgia getting worse than ever due, a nursing friend tells me, to the battle the two are causing in my body!
To make things worse, my Carpal Tunnel Syndrome is playing up something chronic and, as I'm not allowed any more injections of Cortozone, as too many can cause Brittle bones, I am now on a concoction of various drugs to ease the pain of the three different things wrong with me! (I'm very greedy, to have three things wrong with me, aren't I?) lol
Due to this, I have only just got around to checking my blog - I really have lost track of the time, haven't I?
To get back up to date - I passed my last course with a decent Pass3 (only a few points off Pass 2, much to my disgust!), and I started my A210 (Approaching Literature) course in February.
I don't think I've done too bad so far, especially considering that I've done the first two TMA's whilst on morphine!
I got a great 76% (my best mark so far with the O.U.) for TMA 01, which dealt with doing a close analysis of an extract from Pride & Prejudice, and I got 68% for TMA 02, where we had to assess a particular novel (in my case Frankenstein), as to whether it was, as a novel, written to draw us into thinking 'this is fiction', or not.
Considering the pain I was in, and the medication I was taking, I am very pleased with this result - I fully expected to either fail, or only to get a bare pass!
Our next section is the Romantic Poets, and I have to confess that I haven't even looked at it yet, although I've checked out what TMA 03 is - it's a close analysis of the poem 'Washing Day' by Anna Laetitia Barbauld. I think I'm going to need the course work to appreciate this, and am trying to get myself well enough to concentrate on it fully.
I'll get back to you as I go along, and let you know how I'm doing - both health-wise, as well as in the O.U!
I've just spent the previous 5 months battling ill-health, due to the onset of Lymphodaema in my right leg, as well as my Fibromyalgia getting worse than ever due, a nursing friend tells me, to the battle the two are causing in my body!
To make things worse, my Carpal Tunnel Syndrome is playing up something chronic and, as I'm not allowed any more injections of Cortozone, as too many can cause Brittle bones, I am now on a concoction of various drugs to ease the pain of the three different things wrong with me! (I'm very greedy, to have three things wrong with me, aren't I?) lol
Due to this, I have only just got around to checking my blog - I really have lost track of the time, haven't I?
To get back up to date - I passed my last course with a decent Pass3 (only a few points off Pass 2, much to my disgust!), and I started my A210 (Approaching Literature) course in February.
I don't think I've done too bad so far, especially considering that I've done the first two TMA's whilst on morphine!
I got a great 76% (my best mark so far with the O.U.) for TMA 01, which dealt with doing a close analysis of an extract from Pride & Prejudice, and I got 68% for TMA 02, where we had to assess a particular novel (in my case Frankenstein), as to whether it was, as a novel, written to draw us into thinking 'this is fiction', or not.
Considering the pain I was in, and the medication I was taking, I am very pleased with this result - I fully expected to either fail, or only to get a bare pass!
Our next section is the Romantic Poets, and I have to confess that I haven't even looked at it yet, although I've checked out what TMA 03 is - it's a close analysis of the poem 'Washing Day' by Anna Laetitia Barbauld. I think I'm going to need the course work to appreciate this, and am trying to get myself well enough to concentrate on it fully.
I'll get back to you as I go along, and let you know how I'm doing - both health-wise, as well as in the O.U!
Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Here we go again!
Well I don't know - I'd just got into my new course, when I ended up ill in bed for eight days!
It drives me nuts when my health lets me down, but it's certainly teaching me patience :o((
I'm very slightly behind in my course work, but I'm gradually catching up again. I'm quite enjoying the stuff we're working on - the texts we're using for the coursework are all from the mid-Victorian era, Charles Dickens being one of them - and I've found it fascinating (and sometimes infuriating) to read the attitudes of the day towards the working classes, and especially women and their so-called role in life (grrrrr).
Don't get me wrong, I'm not a bra-burner by any means (not with my bust anyway! lol), but the way women were treated was appalling - no rights to anything, and belonging to either their fathers or husbands - it seems unbelievable that they could put up with it for so long - no wonder they rebelled!
The whole point of the studying, is so that I get to practise writing academic essays properly, and it's been a bit of an eye-opener for me at that!
I did all this stuff when I was at school, but that was 20-odd years ago, and I'd forgotten so much of it it's frightening.
I'm glad I enrolled for this course now - I've a feeling I'm really going to need it. :o))
Ah well! I guess I'd better get back to the drawing board, and get on with my studying - talk to you again soon!
It drives me nuts when my health lets me down, but it's certainly teaching me patience :o((
I'm very slightly behind in my course work, but I'm gradually catching up again. I'm quite enjoying the stuff we're working on - the texts we're using for the coursework are all from the mid-Victorian era, Charles Dickens being one of them - and I've found it fascinating (and sometimes infuriating) to read the attitudes of the day towards the working classes, and especially women and their so-called role in life (grrrrr).
Don't get me wrong, I'm not a bra-burner by any means (not with my bust anyway! lol), but the way women were treated was appalling - no rights to anything, and belonging to either their fathers or husbands - it seems unbelievable that they could put up with it for so long - no wonder they rebelled!
The whole point of the studying, is so that I get to practise writing academic essays properly, and it's been a bit of an eye-opener for me at that!
I did all this stuff when I was at school, but that was 20-odd years ago, and I'd forgotten so much of it it's frightening.
I'm glad I enrolled for this course now - I've a feeling I'm really going to need it. :o))
Ah well! I guess I'd better get back to the drawing board, and get on with my studying - talk to you again soon!
Monday, November 13, 2006
On, on with A172!
Well, my new 10-pointer course has started - and a great time was had by all! lol
No, seriously, the course looks prety good, with me having to do a series of activities, which are all designed to bolster my knowledge of essay writing - and I'm enjoying them so far.
The course is divided into 5 blocks of two weeks, with two separate weeks reserved for the 2 TMA's I need to do to pass the course, so it's all relatively straightforward! :~))
My daughter started at the same time as myself, although she's in a different tutorial group - but we've decided to be study-buddies, which is fine as we don't live in the same house - and there will definately be no cheating with me being a Witness! lol
Talking of which, I spent a great weekend, 4th & 5th Nov., at Fishguard, for one of our two-day assemblies - it was the best one yet for me, being the first anniversary of my very first assembly, but rather nerve-wracking as I was on the platform giving my experience of becoming a Jehovah's Witness. Everyone was very kind, as they always are, and there was another Baptism, so we have a new sister in our congregation - she was welcomed as much as I had been in March - it was lovely to see
Well, I guess I'd better get back to the drawing board, and get on with my OU work - it's amazing the things we all find to do as study-avoidance, isn't it? lol
No, seriously, the course looks prety good, with me having to do a series of activities, which are all designed to bolster my knowledge of essay writing - and I'm enjoying them so far.
The course is divided into 5 blocks of two weeks, with two separate weeks reserved for the 2 TMA's I need to do to pass the course, so it's all relatively straightforward! :~))
My daughter started at the same time as myself, although she's in a different tutorial group - but we've decided to be study-buddies, which is fine as we don't live in the same house - and there will definately be no cheating with me being a Witness! lol
Talking of which, I spent a great weekend, 4th & 5th Nov., at Fishguard, for one of our two-day assemblies - it was the best one yet for me, being the first anniversary of my very first assembly, but rather nerve-wracking as I was on the platform giving my experience of becoming a Jehovah's Witness. Everyone was very kind, as they always are, and there was another Baptism, so we have a new sister in our congregation - she was welcomed as much as I had been in March - it was lovely to see
Well, I guess I'd better get back to the drawing board, and get on with my OU work - it's amazing the things we all find to do as study-avoidance, isn't it? lol
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