back in the UK

I've been back in the UK since saturday. I haven't really felt like I've had time to blog since I've been back.

I went to see star wars 3 on monday. It was pretty good! very surprising. Only irritating parts were r2d2 slapstick and ewan mccregor's ridiculous british accent! Alec Guinness was never that 'Dick Van Dyke.' Jar Jar Binks thankfully kept his stupid mouth shut despite a couple of appearances.

On the plane back they had the 'on demand' style entertainment system so I could choose what I wanted to watch. I watched the entire first series of 'spaced' that was very good, can't understand why I never watched it before. I watched the US version of the office and that was surprisingly entertaining. They certainly didn't hold back on tackling the topic of racism. Then started watching "Alexander". The flight ended only half way through but I have no intention of watching the end. It seemed a 3rd of the cast had Irish accents, a third had english accents and the remaining third were attempting some middle eastern dialect. And I found myself thinking that Alexanders sexuality seemed to be more important to the film makers than the plot. perhaps I should watch it again to find out if it is at all relevant to the end, but having asked around a lot of people say I shouldn't bother. There was however something Aristotle said at the beginning about homosexuality that I didn't quite catch so perhaps it's not what it seems.

Anyway, I also sent off CMA41 for my M150 course, that is the last part of the course. I just await my results in a week or so. I also got the results of TMA05 for M150. 85% which is very good. it means assuming I've passed CMA41 I am on for an overall score of over 81%. Not bad at all, but as I have mentioned before this course is not graded, it's pass or fail, and it doesn't count towards degree class assessment. None the less, I'm very happy with my first OU course.

I'm still working on the statistics for the final report. I should have them completed tomorrow. Then I can work on preparing the data to be handed over.