those of you that have been paying attention will know i am doing an open university course in “ethics in real life” part paid for by my union. well, i have just done my first assignment. an 11 question, multiple choice test to assertain whether or not we are understanding what we have covered so far. ie;
consequentialism, deontology, non-cognitivism, reductionist, reflective equilibrium are all terms that should mean something to me now, and to be honest…in the main…don’t! and thats just one part of block one. we are now on block 3!
i’d be lying if i said i have been looking forward to it. i haven’t. not one bit. i have been trying to cram three weeks worth of study into 1 week. for some reason or other i managed to get too far behind.
so saturday came last weekend and i thought, “thats it, knuckle down and cacth up”. oh the best laid plans of mice and men…”. i went to the O.U. website, and couldn’t log in. at all. i contacted my tutor. and the O.U. apparently, i wasn’t alone, no-one could. by 3pm i gave in.
saturday evening, and i could finally get in.
so there i sat, with 4D as company on SFR (and if you haven’t heard the podcast then why not? funny stuff.)
anyhoo…with dinners keeping a smile on my face i cracked on. then went to bed at gone half five in the morning.
up at half nine and back to it.
back to bed at around 3pm.
up sunday at 7pm for MY show which went on an extra hour to 2am, then after that, and while i waited for the podcast to load, i did some more.
bed around 4:30am.
up 7:30am to get the boy ready for school.
boy leaves 8:45. back to it.
every day this week, i have studied to around 2-3pm, then gone to bed for 4/5 hours, then got up for work, then come home and studied.
until today. i caught up yesterday. re-read a load of it. and then…..and then….
so i have come home today and done the assignement/test.
and got my results.
now bear in mind these results don’t go towards the actual % needed to pass, they are just to see if you know what you are doing.
want to know how i did? ok.
questions – 11
correct – 3
partially correct – 7
wrong – 1
ONE WRONG! ONLY ONE WRONG!
now the partially correct are there because there were more than one correct answer, and i didn’t get them all.
so, overall, i got 6.48 out of 11.
which in turn is 59%.
and i am happy with that. ONE WRONG! wow!
so now onto the next block. “Introducing ethics in health and social care”, which goes on to cover euthanasia and assisted suicide. nice.
then a 1000 word essay. more about that when i get to it.
ok, so i aint the most academic person on the planet (no shit sherlock), but i DO take an interest in academic stuff. especially when it is as cool as this.
last nights show was up to it’s usual standards. great music, extremely dubious conversation, and the legend that is 4D gradually losing the plot as he succumbs to the vodka!
to listen again, head to the main SFR website, scroll down and click on play. you can also download it from there too.
enjoy
ttf.
*the art of necrophelia is 4D’s chosen topic of conversation tonight
track listing. fave so far? all of em! 4d, side B. track 6. for you!
played it three times so far. loving every single bit of it. really must go to bed now though…work tonight. hear tracks this coming sunday. (i’d play it all if i thought i could get away with it!)
thanks to Jim Piddington (drummer, backing vocals, percussion).
