The Paper Chase

The last couple of days the weather has been good - still not warm but blue skies and big white clouds. I have been in particularly good spirits, perhaps due to the exercise I took at the weekend. Work very busy but going well. David is in the process of applying for work experience for a week in May, he is definitely interested in studying science and may be interested in pharmacy so it would be good if he could find out more about it by working in one, he has sent off a couple of applications. Ally had two hours of maths tutoring by Ruth tonight - I think they were both exhausted! Then Ally and I watched Silk which is about lawyers and quite good. I have ordered from Amazon a series about law that I enjoyed about 30 years ago called The Paper Chase, I think it's set in Harvard. I was telling Ally about it so I thought I would get it for him, I hope it's not too horribly dated! Watching the news with the boys, headlines are about Libya. I'm not sure what the bombing is going to achieve - won't it prolong the fighting? But then I am no expert on international affairs. Japan is now slowly picking up the pieces after the horrific earthquake and tsunami on 11th March, the images of devastation we have seen on the news are terrible. Jamie has just phoned and was chatting about the people who will be on his BMSc course and what he studying just now for his exams in April - the main areas are neurology, psychiatry and reproduction and there are also smaller modules on ophthalmology, aging, and child & adolescent mental health. It's great that he enjoys it so much because it's very hard work. He has also been re-elected to the post of safety officer in the University rowing club. And so to bed.