Marking Time

On Monday I blogged about course choices, and the issues it caused over timetabling.

The reason for that is that I have a 60 minute lecture and a 2-hour tutorial each week in each of my core subjects, Creative Writing and Media Communications. So far so good. However, I also have to take two electives, which in my case are Poetry and Introduction to Scriptwriting. These also require me to take a 60-minute lecture and a 2-hour tutorial, but on alternating weeks. I also have an additional fortnightly 2-hour lecture in Creative Writing.

So this week my hours are:

Tuesday 11 - 1, and 3 - 5pm

Wednesday 9 - 1, and 3 - 5pm.

Last week and next week I have a more 'stretched' week:

Monday 4 - 6pm

Tuesday 11 - 1, and 3 - 5pm

Wednesday 9 - 11, and 12 - 1pm

Thursday 9 - 10, and 5 - 7pm.

In fact I need to leave an hour before the module starts, and get home an hour after it finishes. So my true times this week are:

Tuesday 10am - 6pm

Wednesday 8am - 6pm.

and:

Monday 3 - 7pm

Tuesday 10am -- 6pm (with these times, there's no point in going home and back so I stay on campus)

Wednesday 8am - 1pm

Thursday 8 - 11am, and 4 to 8pm.

The good thing about taking the bus is that although it takes longer, I can do a little work on it (if my brain hasn't packed up on the way home!). The bad news is that one week my seminars and tutorials alone account for 18 hours, and the next 24 -- before I've done any reading or tackled any assignments, which add another 12 hours or so.

Add to that the 2 days a week that I'm working at the hospital, adding another 16 hours a week with journey times. So an average of 49 hours are off the clock before I've started blogging. I'm now asking myself how on earth I'm going to write the next novel.

I'll let you know when I work it out...

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