Fossils with the OU

Well i'll be starting my course on September 1st. I could already be studying apart from the fact that one of my cats is currently "in-season" and is calling sufficiently loudly that i was kept awake a large amount of last night. She seems to know when i'm about to do something which requires a certain amount of quiet, then she sets off yelling and trying to break down the spare room door. We're trying to keep some kind of airlock system in the house, hence her living in the spare room (incidentally this is my study room).
I've been a very good bookworm and only bought 1 book this month ("Doomsday Book" by Connie Willis).
TOH is currently trying to shelve the remaining walls in the house, unfortunately the house is 200 years old and spirit levels hadn't been invented at the time. The walls are currently causing all the shelf units to sit just on the balance point over the staitcase. This along with the fact that they're all on the wonk compaired to the "vertical" walls is causing me to look at the floor constantly so that i don't fall face first down the stairs. It really isn't fair to put this much visual strain on a person who the lady at SpecSavers said, "Well we can't do anything about your eyesight, you'll just have to hold your head at a funny angle so you can see straight"! I have an astigmatism, my left eye doesn't look up very well, my right eye doesn't look right or down very well so i'm pretty well stuffed.
Anyway, that's enough of a rant for one day, i bet you wish i stayed away permanently now.

Open University

Well, I signed up for the fossil course on the open University, now all i have to do is wait until the middle of the month when my course materials will be arriving!

TOH had a look at my blog the other day and promptly burst out laughing (not a good reaction). Turns out he was amused by my entries about books, particularly the one about trying to decrease the size of my TBR pile. This is because on Saturday i wanted to go book shopping, so TOH sat me down on the bed and asked me to pick all the books out of my TBR pile that i had acquired since January this year. Easy i thought it'll only be a couple ... WRONG ... turns out i've acquired 34+ books! And since i've only read 33 this year, it means i'm only just breaking even on the reduction front. Mind you i seem to have sped up with my reading, i managed 10 books last month.

MyLifeBits

This looks like an interesting way of thinking MyLifeBits i'm not sure if it's a good thing or not. Personally i'm trying to increase my memory and my mental ability (i'm Brain Age 27 now) and i'm not sure what would happen to these faculties if i could just put everything i needed to know into a computer programme.

I've been taking an interest in things like Second Life, There & IMVU. They all seem very interesting but my computer at home isn't good enough spec for them to work :(