Self Directed Study Week

During the self directed study week, I had originally booked the week off work in order to get up to speed with all of my modules ready for when I return to lectures, but this was not the case. 

I work for a company called "BlockBuster" which for the second time this year has entered administration at the start of last week. Fortunately the first time it entered administration, the company was bought out and was able to continue as normal, however this time it is not looking as promising. The manager of the store I work at asked each part time member of staff (which I am) to work as many hours during that week as we possibly could so that we have some money to fall back on if we do lose our jobs, which at this moment in time it is looking as though I will, as I will not receive a redundancy payout.

This unfortunately resulted in me not being able to make it into University as much as I had hoped to during the week, but I did do some work when I got home from work at 10pm each night, and I did make first draft set using SketchUp! 

On Wednesday night, my only means of working from home, my laptop, broke. Fortunately for me though, I regularly back up all of my work to three different storage locations; two external hard drives and a cloud server, so I still have everything I have done so far to work from upon my return to university. I have already sent my laptop away for repair, with an estimated 28 days to fix.