So I finally (finally!) got my grant application forms from the Open University. Naturally they arrived just the day after I had grumpily poked at them, the universe doing its best to make me look silly. Still, I got them all filled in and signed and stamped by the appropriate authorities, inserted the necessary evidences, and sent off on their way for what should be just in time for the deadline which I am told is this very day, the 12th. Although in an earlier email I had been informed the final deadline for applications was the 19th so just how fine I am actually cutting things I don't know. Smrrs. Either way it's been somewhat unnerving and aggravating, but hopefully now everything is in order and I just has to wait, at least I know my actual entitlement is not in any question but judging by how things have gone so far who knows what might yet happen? Still I am now more or less reassured with things.

It's not though exactly been the kind of preparation I would have hoped for in starting this year's course. By now I would have liked to have been getting on with reading through the course materials, pondering my first assignment and such. Still, hopefully I wont now find myself too behind with things when I actually get my paws on the real stuff and will be able to do all the works and so on. The sooner I can be getting on with things now the better really. I mean it does look an interesting course, studying a very broad range of literary works and their various aspects, indeed so broad I am having trouble summarising it simply here so instead here be the the course description as it is on the Open University website. A lot of interesting stuffs no? Anyways hopefully it will be good when I finally actually get round to starting it properly! Hopefully indeed though that will now be very shortly.

Anyways, having got such tasks out of the way today I was able to spend a reasonably pleasant afternoon out at the caravan tending to kitty Ozymandias which I shall be doing for next three weeks or so whilst my mother and Robert are away. It was actually quite a pleasantly sunny day so it was nice to sit out with kitty and watch the birds, though admittedly kitty's interest in them will have been markedly different than mine! As it was he didn't manage to kill anything whilst I was there this time so that be a good thing. I'm pondering that I might stay over a night during the weekend perhaps, the good and less good about staying over there of course remain the same as they were the last time, still I shall see how the feeling takes me when the time comes. Methinks tomorrow though I shall invest in some kitty treats and perhaps one or two things that are beyond my means to cook for myself with the facilities in my flat but can be put together over there. A nice pasta bake, or pie or somesuch, my flat has only the very tiniest of little electric ovens.

Still, tomorrow I will have all the fun of the shop then hopefully I shall have a nice enjoyable weekend, spending some time with my animal, and generally recharging myself. Since all the excitements of last weekend, this week has been a rather tired affair so far but hopefully I should soon be back to whatever passes for good form when it comes to me! Anywho, I cut things fine, but everything should now more or less be in order I hope. Now hopefully I can actually think about getting on with things again.