Some academic work (and another weekend over)

Dear Diary,

I spent this morning reading law, then after a brief siesta (as I get older, I tend to take more naps now) I attended a virtual ice-breaker, a kind of informal tutorial. Meeting our tutor was nice. She seems like a good tutor (I have never been assigned a bad one by the university). Reading law is heavy duty, I'll be honest, but I am - more or less - enjoying it. The historical and political elements I find fascinating, but they are of considerably less importance when compared to understanding to the law as it stands today (black-letter law, case law, statutes, torts, that kind of thing). This particular course is all about constitutional law. Even if I didn't study any more law modules (a distinct possibility, considering their price and the risk-versus-reward element) it is nice to more fully understand things like Brexit, the general principles of law (in the U.K.) and also learning about the constitution in places like Namibia and the Ukraine (the latter being a hot topic).

After a shift at that... place (ᾍδης), I had a tight deadline to make on editing a computer studies assignment. I made it with 56 minutes to spare. It's not bad, being an academic editor, and I wish I had more academic work. Whereas many Dons are really very knowledeagble, their respective academic specialisms means that they often have expert knowledge in one particular field. Being an editor for numerous universities (by extension, through a firm in the private sector) means I get exposure to a wide variety of different subjects, and become party to the culture in each one. It is not always classical studies (rarely, in fact).

Even so, I'm glad to have found a few little niches in the translation business. Niches are very important, crucial, in fact. Having a monopoly on certain translations is going to be quite lucrative, and I have had quite enough scrabbling around for pennies doing unskilled labour in the same job I did when I was 14, now I am 44 (holding a master's degree makes absolutely no difference in Dark Age Britain, whatsoever). But that's okay: everybody knows that the British don't keep their word, well, almost everybody (that is, except the British).