Having recently been issued my full timetable for the course up to the 5th January I am happy to report that Mondays are my "research and professional development" days and that I seem to have a large number of Friday afternoons off as well. Couple this with the fact that I have nothing other than 2 Court visits and an assessment handout happening before 10:30am and I am a lot happier than when I started the course.

As my current Facebook status declares, I am overwhelmed with the astonishing amount of paperwork which has been thrown at us, not to mention the eleven or so manuals, a copy of Blackstone's Civil Practice and, soon to follow, the Criminal version too.

Just about every lecturer is handing out small assignments to be completed for next time along with little quizzes and further reading matter on the school's interactive learning tool, called CitySpace {which runs a lot like Web CT for anyone who is familiar with that}. I have never used a tool like this before in my life, the Law department at Exeter having only just stopped asking for essays to be completed in cursive script with illuminated paragraph headings.

Still, I've nothing to do until Tuesday lunchtime so I suppose I can't really complain, although I do still need to find a decent supermarket... Preferrably with its own bus stop...