This is it. The essay is finished, printed and in my bag. It’s now within the University’s 10% rule in terms of word count although I must confess that I would have preferred it to be within the 4500 words but I have totally run out of steam. All I have to do now is staple it together and hand it over.

Is it Masters level? Your guess is as good as mine. Is it coherent? Who knows. Do I care at this stage after all these weeks of work and toil? No. I just want to be free of it.

ICT test – check
Essay – check

Time for a rest? Nope – tomorrow it’s 9 hours of lectures on the trot, followed by coming home and lugging an oil tank around the place (don’t ask) then on Wednesday I start the next assignment – the dissertation.

Pass me that box of matchsticks someone, I’m going to need them.