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For some reason, these have been published the day before. Oooh, what a mix up!

I am rather delightfully happy, although slightly annoyed at myself. Unfortunately, medieval was somewhat of a mess, with 57 and 64. Not to say I didn’t expect that after the mix up with the lecturer’s e-mail, saying that “all” the texts would be covered. Boo hiss. Oh, and the small drop in Shakespeare, which i’m not too annoyed about, but it would have been nice to have kept the 74% from my first essay!

But otherwise, incredibly happy, with 74, 72, 69 and 69. Which means, that despite all odds and several mediocre level essays, I somehow managed to recover both Renaissance and Modern Theory in the exam. I don’t do exams; consequently this is a mini-miracle.

Unbelievably happy with Writings of WW1, after all that hard work – 74!

So, average of a 2.1, but a high one (68). So lots of reassessing options, as getting into a good medieval MA seems to be a rather distant possibility. But at least I expected a bad result on that – just putting a bit of a dampener on everything else.

But regardless, starting my new job tomorrow (eekk!), and going for yet another interview. Then dashing off to London, a last visit to some friends and then finally complete all the fuss and bother of Toronto applications! I’m getting there!

The next interesting use of “medieval” on TV: apparently Labour parliamentary payoffs are equivalent to danegeld. Cough.

Well, besides this, a rather interesting day. Thought i’d go and get a job, as I have not a great deal to do at the moment with my damaged leg and would rather like some coinage for Toronto. So I wander into a local hotel and ask for any part-time work, to no avail. I think, perhaps I shall try the centre of the city, and am given several forms and rather more blank looks. Then, completely by fluke, I saw a small advert for the Berlitz Language Centre, and I thought I’d give it a go. Not for a moment did I think that I would actually have a chance. Interviewed there and then, and within 4 hours I received an e-mail offering me training, good pay and a 2 month contract, with more work next year if I’m good enough. Just a little bit happy!

Average age of teachers: 45. How exactly I got this job is beyond me. But anyway, I have a rather wonderful job, which is going to be very tough, but very fun. It’s pretty much all business or advanced level language teaching, 1-2-1, and very tightly controlled. I am absolutely terrified actually, as it’s mainly successful business-people, sent to England on assignment and needing a reasonably good understanding in 2 weeks. So it’s high pressured. Experience-wise, however, it’s amazing.