8.20 am.  What?! It has now moved from St David’s Road to Llanbadarn Road:

Rain and strong wind pushed down Trinity Road. 8.40 am. I set up for the final Chapels in Wales lecture. 9.00 am. No show!; 100% absenteeism. (Woe unto thee if ye hold a class in revision week.) So, the module goes out with a whimper:

9.15 am. I’d forgotten to bring my laptop from home, so I returned to retrieve it. 9.30 am. The degree show construction is well underway:

10.00 am. MA tutorial no. 1. Wherein lies the work?: in the product, the process, its residue, and the means of production, in this case:

11.00 am. MA tutorial no. 2. The research question will discover us. We just have to be prepared and available to greet it. 12.00 pm. A Chapels in Wales essay/project tutorial with a student who’ll be leaving us for her homeland this time next week.

1.50 pm. After lunch and a spot of domestic lightbulb changing, I arranged an MA teaching observation roster, and then dug-in for BA Research, Process & Practice submission marking, with Frippertronics bleeping and humming in the background. (I’m concerned for the well-being of one of our number. My mind is in two places, presently.) The submissions never fail to reveal something about either the work or the worker, about which I was completely oblivious during tutorials. Perhaps insights of this nature can (should) only come at the conclusion of a course of action. They are often unspeakable (although not unwritable), and certainly not for discussion in a teaching context. (Non-negotiable.)

6.20 pm. Practise session 1. 7.30 pm. On with Research, Process & Practice submissions to the sonic backdrop of Jean-Baptise Lully (1632-87). While one should not be beguiled by the work’s presentation (content must be primary), the integrity or otherwise of the ‘packaging’ speaks of an attitude in relation to the work. No aspect of anything we make is either qualitatively or significantly neutral. Our responsibility is comprehensive and absolute. I’m finding the Visual Diary element of the submission fascinating to read. It provides an insight into, among other things, the student’s post-tutorial ruminations. It’s a very personal genre of writing. One female student, some years back, included an explanatory chart of her menstrual cycle:

Having completed the initial assessment of each submission, I return to the first script and compared it to the last. Sound judgement must be evident both intrinsically and relationally. I had a little time at the close of the evening to search out parapsychology Twitter sites.