Connectivity and job offer

The coursework for our statistics modules, it has been pointed out, is only worth about 4% of our Further maths A-level. This means that we can pick a relatively easy, standard, boring project and it doesn't make a significant difference to your grade.[1] So the subject of my Very Dull Project is comparing word length, sentence length, etc. between English and French, and for this purpose I am using 'Pyramids' by Terry Pratchett (my favourite author) and its French translation, which I bought last year when I was doing French at A/S level. I had a selection of words, but I needed to know the total number of words and sentences in the whole book.

So I emailed Terry last week to ask him to do a Word Count on his computer, and I got a [nice] reply two days later.

Now, I am a major Terry Pratchett fan, and I have been for years. I have all the books in paperback (naturally), the last nine in hardback (all signed), a number of the 'spin-off' books, two lovely bookends, one of the three computer games (currently angling for the other two), the last four calendars, the board game... um, there's more, I think, but I can't remember it all at the moment. Anyway, you get my point. This was Exciting!

Don't you just love the internet?

The panic is rising once more - I only have until the beginning of next week to finish this stats coursework. So at the moment that's what I'm completely focused on, which means that I'm ignoring other things until Tuesday, which is when I'll have to do the homeworks that will be set today and tomorrow to be handed in on Wednesday, which leaves me Wednesday to do at least one of the mechanics or statistics practice papers we've been given so that I can have something handed in before half-term, which leaves me Thursday (and half an hour on Friday morning) in which to revise for my pure maths P5 mock A-level exam.

So then there will be half-term, during which I have to catch up on sleep, write up just about all of my physics coursework, and... oh yes, revise for the other eight mock A-level exams which happen the week we come back from half-term. So much work to do...which, the astute reader will notice, is why I'm currently blogging instead of doing work. I think this is the Ostrich Syndrome rearing its head again...[2]

In other news, eep! I just checked my quota information for my subdomain with Portland and it seems that I've already used almost a third of my total storage space. I've only been blogging for two months!

I think I'll have to move my archives somewhere else, which should free up some space. Oh, and actually put up an archive html page, rather than just letting people look at the directory index.

Ooh, and, and, and... (I totally forgot about this - shows how much it's been weighing on my mind!) the company where I went for a job interview offered me the job yesterday, which was nice.[3] Unfortunately, in the two and a half weeks since the interview, I've decided not to accept, the main reasons for which decision are that:

1. There's no chance of sponsorship through university (or, by extension, a job at the end of uni, or in the holidays)
2. I'd have to get up at just gone six ay-emm every day
3. The travel costs would be about £3000 for the time that I'd be working there.