Sir, Yes Sir!

I've finally started my coursework for UAAA.  The sheet that had the essay titles on suggested I "weave a creative story", so I've decided to do that.  I'm not 100% convinced it's going to be any good as a piece of coursework and I'm not totally sure I know where I'm going to put the science in.  If I had another week I'd finish the story and then decide if it's good enough, and if not I'd do a boring essay instead.  I don't have another week though so the story had better turn out great. 
It's set in a distant future where Humans have expanded into the local super cluster of galaxies and are the dominant race over all the aliens.  They're a bit evil, even if they don't realise it, and the main characters in the story have stolen a spaceship and are trying to find proof that Humans aren't as amazing as they say they are.  The plan is that that proof will be the sciencey bit that I get the marks for.  It'll have to be a fair chunk and I don't know how interesting it's going to be as a sci-fi storey but I'm running out of time and I need to get something done and hopefully it will be fun to write.  If I'm lucky I'll get a lot done tomorrow night when Liz is at her SSAGO social. 

Today was the first day of lectures after the Easter holiday.  I only had one maths lecture and half of that was taken up by people giving a short sales pitch on the Student Associates Scheme (SAS) which is basically three weeks working in a local high school / 6th form.  Also you get a £600 tax free bursary if you complete it.  The money isn't as valuable as the work experience will be though.  Becoming a teacher has always been the plan B of what to do when I finish my degree and I've never been able to come up with a plan A.  Would I like teaching?  Maybe, maybe not.  Hopefully I'll be accepted for the SAS project and be able to find out. 

For tea we had duck and bacon cooked in 1½ cups a whole bottle of wine.  The duck bit was very nice and so was the rest, even if the rest did taste quite wine-like.  Maybe next time Liz's will stick a bit closer to the recipe.  Then again, it would have been a waste of most of a bottle of wine because we wouldn't have had it otherwise.