21 years and 1 day on

It's 21 years and a day since I first started college at Brighton, and now I'm back, albeit in Cambridge. Last time I'd just finished my A-levels and changed tack from Pharmacy to Electronics on the basis of my results. This time I have been intending to do the course for 4 or 5 years, rather than 4 or 5 weeks.

And finally it's all about to happen. I've collected my keys to the college today, found out what a High Tea is, lost a parachute game, and met more than a few people.

I've already got a feeling for what the first day in a new parish must be like - I can only remember about 10% of the people by the time I get home!

I know that the next few weeks are going to be a blur. My timetable for the next couple of weeks includes a lot of foundation courses, and it looks like there will be a few decisions to be made about exactly which modules I want to study. Last time I just followed the timetable and was meant to turn up to everything. This time the advice is "Don't try to do everything".

Tasha and I have spent the last 18 weeks in close proximity since I left work at the end of May, and it will be nice for both of us to have something else to do with our time, although the calendar for this week already seems so full that I'm not sure if we'll actually see much of each other at all - by the time we are both back home together after college/childrens activities/SpiceGirls/somethingelse we could be lucky to get any sense out of each other. Especially as I'll be thinking in Greek.....