Avoidance Strategies

I started an Open University module in history this year. To be precise in "Total War and Social Change: Europe 1914-1955". I thought that it would be fun to use my brain for the first time in a while plus Toby is off studying at London Business School, so why not?

Why not?

Where to start. I feel as though I am just about treading water at the moment. Some of the concepts (mainly Marxist it seems) are vaguely familiar from my undergraduate days but in truth it is the distance learning thing that I struggling with. Having to be self motivated, eurgh. Having to be motivated to get up and read, a lot, and some of it is quite dense, academic stuff - I refer you to my earlier comment on Marx, and I find myself wondering just what am I doing.

Still I have discovered that of an evening all I want to do is sit down, glass of wine and knit. This means that my Amy Butler cardigan may get finished around the same time as this module...


So far there is more cardigan than there is learning.