Section A

Hi Folks
I really feel as though I am on the road now. I am on track with assignments and services and I do not feel stretched or stressed. I should be able to enter my Section A material for the end of September provided nothing untoward happens. But I am not worried as it is not a race and it does not matter if it goes in in March. If that happened I should have to do two pieces of work again as they are time specific but that is OK as I could do with the practice.

I have just been planned for my first two services on Trial which is not as scary as I thought because my mentor or someone else comes with me and checks everything to make sure the quality is good. The last service we did together someone asked me if they had to curtsy to a lady "On Note". I told her no but that next time she saw me I would be "On Trial" and I was not sure how you treated someone like that!!! Actually it will feel a little more peaceful once I am on trial as I shall have only have two services a quarter. My mentor and I have had considerably more than that these past few months. But this has been good for me and has given me a chance to put everything into practice very quickly.

I am finding that I get very tired when I study and I have to take regular breaks to clear my head. I suppose that is natural but I don't remember getting so tired when I took my OU degree. But I suppose that is 20 years ago now but I did have a full time job as well then. Which reminds me I start my job next week and this is why I am so pleased to be on track because I am not sure how this will fit in and whether I have been silly taking it on.

I do all my work on computer and I have started saving everything to disc after it is done just in case of disaster. All these storms have a habit of cutting power when least expected.

I have to make a start on my second piece of exegesis this morning but I have plenty of time for it so I can take a couple of days to get it right. I quite like doing it when I have more than the one commentary and for this one I have three so I should find lots of material there for me. The last one was tough because I only had the one commentary I bought two more but they arrived too late to include. Next time I will send earlier.