Happy

5.42pm. Feeling good. I left my room just before 4pm, and stood around outside reception for a little while, listening to a couple of guys, Chris and Lawrence, talking about fees, cramming in residentials (before they all go), and other areas of common ground.

Some people get everywhere; I ran into Robin, the hard-of-hearing guy who was on my SXR103 week, and who I saw in passing last year (he was doing SXR260 at Collingwood College, which is the college next door).

We walked down to the initial briefing, which was actually in the physics department this time (it was in the geology building last year). Fantastic to see David Keen, he is one of the best OU tutors I have ever met.

Apparently Jonathan Edwards is a former Durham physics graduate, and David quipped that the Institute of Physics converted his winning long jump into Angstroms - only a bunch of physicists like me could find that funny, but it was very funny!

Finally met Duncan Collins, what a sound guy. Fingers crossed I've made a good friend there.

I now have a more exact timetable. Sunday/Monday is the electrical oscillations lab, Monday/Tuesday is the Compton effect lab, Wednesday/Thursday is the short experiments lab, and Thursday/Friday is the magnetic fields lab - ironically this the exact order I did the labs in last year.

We also now have some further information on the evening activities. At the same time as the optional lectures (I will definitely attend Wednesday's lecture as it is the guest lecture), tonight there will be a physics quiz, on Sunday a general knowledge quiz, on Monday it's karaoke at Van Mildert college (I think I'll be avoiding that), Tuesday I'm not sure about, Wednesday is the guest lecture, and Thursday there is an end-of-week disco at Collingwood college.

Off for dinner. Hoping very much it's not steak, if it is I'm going veggie.