At times I amaze even myself...

So, I have just caught up on 5 weeks of study in 2 days.

I am now only 1 week behind instead of 6 weeks. Which is far, far less scary!

The whole work/illness stress thing that was going on through January and February completely f*ck*d over almost every aspect of my life, but finally - finally - I seem to be getting back on top of things. I've managed to reorganise and dial down the work situation (a few bridges to - not rebuild, exactly, but strengthen a bit, and that's happening), I'm back running and going to the gym again, and I've finally managed to get started on my Oceanography course.

I love this stuff, I really do, it's fascinating, but these last couple of months I haven't been able to touch it, it's been another thing that's just been too much to cope with. It's like I've been existing somewhere totally other from normal.

It helps that this first module of the course is mostly stuff I've met before in previous courses: constructive and destructive plate margins, birth and evolution of ocean basins, structure and formation of oceanic lithosphere, hydrothermal circulation in the ocean crust, and sea-level changes over geological time. So much of this was revision rather than new concepts.

Now on to Seawater: Its composition, properties and behaviour. Which I suspect means a healthy dose of chemistry :(