Belt, braces, superglue and a padlock

[strange_complex]

Given that I have complete and up-to-date copies of my book on:

• My hard-drive
• A CD
• My Yahoo email account
• The Warwick University server

... it would be overkill to put it on the shiny new data-stick my Dad gave me and email it to my work and Excite email accounts as well. Right? Right???

In other news, the materials for the course I'm going to be doing with redkitty23 next term on The Operas of Handel arrived today. I'm very excited! It tells us what operas we'll be covering each week, and there's a recommended reading list as well.

This means that I can now see that, thanks to superhuman CD-copying efforts over the past couple of months, I have indeed successfully acquired copies of most of the major works we'll be studying. In fact, over a 10-week course, there's only 3 weeks for which I don't have at least some of the appropriate listening material. So that's good - I can listen to the relevant operas in preparation, and read the right bits of the books, and turn up with a big, swotty 'I did my homework' grin on my face. :)

And homework is right, because we also have to do worksheets each week, to 'consolidate' what we've learned in class. We can even do an essay if we want! (Although I'm not sure I'll actually go that far - I may have finished my book by then, but I have a paper queuing up to be written, too.)

But yay! I am going to be a student again! How amusing.

Comments

[edling.livejournal.com]

If you're feeling paranoid enough to keep a physical offsite backup, throw me a copy of the CD and I'll shove it somewhere safe round my place, but it sounds like you've got most bases covered now...

[strange-complex.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the offer, but I think I'm good. Despite the recent mutant zombie incident, I do generally trust the Warwick server. My book was still on it when they got the power back up again. Besides, what if a plane crashes in Mill Street and takes out both our houses???