Signature track.

Dear Diary,

I was really looking forward to studying Roman architecture at Yale through Coursera throughout the past few months. Today I looked at the module, and it looks like it’s been commercialised, signature track is required, and they’re asking for fifty-bucks that I haven’t got. Oh well. Seeing as all the study materials are on-line, and the sole advantage of using Coursera is that it was free, means that is yet another module I am destined never to study, except in my own time.

There’s an archæology course that starts next month, and that one doesn’t require signature track ($50) so I might try that one. It’s with Brown University who, as far as I’m aware, take a more European approach to the discipline: archæology being a distinctive field in its own right, rather than being one of the branches of anthropology, as is usually the case across the pond.

It is unlikely that I’ll try any Coursera this year, seeing as I have so much other study on the go. Must find motivation to continue Latin.

I also must find some more gigs, which would be nice. I remember travelling abroad and finding gig after gig, in France, Belgium and Italy they really love good musicians; even Germany is more ‘up for it’ than England. (Although I tend not to go there, because history has taught me a lesson. They wouldn’t like Maxy sausage-side. I’d be like Burton, when he met Taylor’s German family).

Ho hum. Back to the grind.

Oops a daisy! It looks like I might well be signed up for Roman Architecture after all, and that the Signature Track would just be for a certificate. In any case I signed up for Sue Alcock’s Dirty Little Secrets starting next month. I wonder what they will make of Maxy? I intend to keep fora contact minimal and just let the assignments speak for themselves. Man! If I could do that with the OU I would totally flunk my degree, as if I wasn’t enough of a wild-child already! My papers for the OU are taken very seriously, but I still have to restrain and reformulate my arguments to fit with the rubric of the assignment. Because these Coursera courses are just for fun I can really be myself and ‘go for it’ in essays, which is a luxury I cannot afford when learning seriously: jumping through hoops, just like Ron’.

In any case, with likes of the Sue Alcock, I am likely to do the very best I can, seeing as my audience is an esteemed authority in the field. In any case, this year should be a great year.

Year of the horse.