at the open invitation of gerald for all in six.nine to join him to study in school, so marks the opening of the mid-year study season, 3 weeks that act as a fitting prelude to the block tests, which are the first of a set of 3 examinations that will arrive with discomfiting regularity and speed once they begin later this month... 

let the many hours of maoist/stalinist industrialisation, inelasticities of demand, seen/unseen commentaries, trigonometric differentiation and acid/base dissociation begin =)