Well, I have just enough time before my lecture this morning - yep, lecture this morning, because of the bank holiday next Monday - to give you a quick resume of the situation this week. It would appear that one third of the english lecturers are on strike, which on the face of it sounds great (free holiday - hurrah!) but actually its not really quite like that. In fact they are taking 'action short of a strike' which basiclly means they are withholding the marks from any assessed work we happen to do. For some reason English seems to be hit pretty hard by it, and its beginning to matter because today should have been the day when I got my assessed essays from before Easter back. But no, I won't see them until the end of the strike. Ho hum, what it is to live in a democracy. At the moment its just a bit irritating, but if it continues on into next term (which potentially it could, although it is reasonably unlikely that it will) it might mean that I go into my final year with absolutely no idea how I am doing in terms of credits, especially since they will also withhold our marks from our exams this coming June. And its considerably worse for third years - they stand to not be able to graduate if they don't have a grade. What is doubly annoying is that in both my seminars this week the tutor has spent half an hour trying to explain all thi, thus cutting away at even more time. Obviously its good they are keeping us updated, but does that really need to happen in the middle of a seminar? As you can possibly tell, I am rather annoyed, though a part of me completely understands...or slightly understands...why the lecturers are striking.
And now I must go and be lectured about metaphysical poets.
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