Long weekend’s, I love them. But that’s easy for me to say as I don’t have to work them at the moment.  In the UK they’re called Bank Holidays which has an interesting history and Britpop legends Blur wrote a song about it. 

In NSW I was essentially always on call so couldn’t really relax just in case something went pear shaped.  In the UK at Carlsberg I was on a 24/7 roster.  In my 18 months there I think I worked all the public holidays.  In my double life as a project leader and student, all I have to worry about is me, and if I want or need to work over the long weekend in either of my roles I can.

I do appreciate how sucky it is when you see an update from family and friends mates and there’s nothing you can do about it.  So if you have worked this weekend I hope it wasn’t too hard, you had some benefits and fun from it.

Vac week.  What an interesting concept.  No lecture videos to catch up on, no PASS sessions and no tutorials.  The chance to catch up and hopefully get ahead of the curve.  To be honest I tried, but not very successfully when I consider what I wanted to get done.

With the swimming season over the whole family has been around and doing things with them is far more amusing than restating financial details and reading Chapters 5 and 6.   Though I have managed to complete the first draft of my LAWS11030 assignment and finish off my ASS#2 step 1, if you want to read it it’s here. Paul Feasey ASS#2 Step 1

We did go up to Rockhampton see child #1 on campus.  Students in Rocky, you are very privileged.  What a great campus!  The halls are great, the food for the res students is amazing, the sports facilities are great and the gardens are lovely.  When I went to Uni the only facility we had was a common room with a TV.

We used the BBQ’s in the gardens for our sausage sizzle. Absolutely fabulous.  Public BBQ’s rank in my estimation as one of the greatest societal  benefits of all time.

Alice is in a great spot to study.  I’m happy she’s there, though she’s got a lot on, with balancing an RA role, adjusting to being an adult, having a social life and intense study.  Dentistry is not for the fainthearted or lazy.  Very proud of my eldest (takes after her mother in awesomeness)

As there’s no work today I’ve caught up on some blogs.  Amazing how we all interpret the chapters in different ways.  Maitland’s blog made me laugh, Lisa has managed to break herself, Kyle is working on centrifuges and sugar, and Caitlin has new cows.  This all links into Chapter 5 when Martin starts talking about relationships.  As a distance student I doubt we’ll physically meet many of our fellows, but reading blogs does give an insight into how we all tick.

It looks like I’ll be getting some more study time in.  I had a great run before parkrun on Saturday morning.   Just shy of 8k in the dark and the pouring rain.  I haven’t run in the rain or in the dark for ages.  The Zombies, Run mission was great and I was soaked to the skin.  It was awesome. Though it was a bit painful.

About three months ago there were indications that something had come adrift internally.  After much abuse by Mrs Feasey and my work colleagues I finally went to the doctors and I have an ultrasound next week.  This means unfortunately I’m going to have to stop running for a week. Hopefully it’s nothing too drastic and I can get back out soon.  I do get a bit rangry (grumpy due to lack of running) if I have too much of a gap.

This gives me some increased study time.  Speaking of which, while everyone else is slowly rising in the Feasey household I’m going to have another cup of tea and read Chapters 5 & 6.

Happy Studies folks.