Welcome to Stressville

7.23pm. It's been a particularly stressful week, getting this TMA finished. I even emailed the OU on Tuesday (Monday was a bank holiday) to ask them for an extension. The auto reply seemed pretty helpful, but then finally today (with the deadline being tomorrow), I had a reply listing the reasons that would constitute grounds for an extension, but they wanted evidence.

Academic difficulty was not among the reasons, so it would appear that a student having genuine difficulty completing it on time (despite his or her best efforts) can basically fuck off.

I rushed through completing what I could, and then when I left the office, dashed over to the Post Office -- only to be told that I had missed the deadline for Guaranteed Next Day delivery by about 10 minutes. How maddening, and how typical of this cowpat of a country!

In the end I had to contend with putting a first class stamp on it, and hoping for the best.

All week I've had bad headaches, sinus pain and tinnitus, which I hope are 'merely' stress related, as it means they should fade now I have the TMA on the way to Walton Hall. Just 3 and a bit months to go until the results!