Why has Blogger suddenly decided to put two banners at the top of the screen, instead of just the one?

It's pushing the background and the blog entries down by the height of the second banner, but leaving the title, menu text and the counter where they were supposed to be, hence the chewed up and regurgitated dog's dinner that you are probably seeing before you.

It did this earlier but before I could be bothered to edit the HTML coding, the second banner vanished and everything went back to normal. I'll leave it like this til tomorrow and see if it repairs itself.


I'm currently squeezing out the dissertation like a fibreless diet - very slowly, with lots of pain and it's taking all night. Done nearly 1000 words tonight (actually, around 800, if you subtract the words I've deleted). I want to get the whole thing to a reasonable standard to show Mick, my supervisor, by Wednesday at the latest. I need to get some kind of feedback from him before the start of the holiday, otherwise I'm screwed. I'm not going to get all 10,000 words of the first draft sorted, but I figured if I do the first and last analysis, then add in a rough conclusion, I can show Mick that I'm at least doing something, and he can give me hints on where I'm going wrong.

I found out this week that I need a 2:1 in all four of this year's modules if I'm going to get a 2:1 at the end of the year:

Creative Writing: Probably a 2:1 - I've not done much this year, but what I have done has been good.

LING 201 Dissertation: Either a 2:1 or a 2:2 - it's basically stylistic analysis, which I'm good at, but I've been out of practice since the second year, and I'm pretty fed up with the whole thing, so that could drag my overall grade for the module down.

LING 204 [Not sure of the course title]: I got a 1st in my last essay, but I doubt I could carry that through to the next essay, which is due in less than a fortnight (hence why I want to get the rough version of this dissertation out of the way NOW). Of course, there's also an exam for this module, which is normally where I bugger up completely.

LING 206 [Something about language in society]: I messed up my last essay for this, which is a shame because I like the social side of linguistics. I've also missed too many lectures (9am, the only thing I have on Wednesday - can you blame me?). I need a damn good essay mark this term (due after the holidays, thank god!), plus a good exam mark if I'm going to get a 2:1.

I think, overall, I'm going to end up with a 2:2 (but that's not going to stop me trying). I may still be able to blag my way onto the Creative Writing MA by dint of a damn good portfolio (some of the best responses I've ever had from the Writers Guild and my Creative Writing group when I showed the pieces to them), and by putting in the 'tiebreaker' box that I founded the Writers Guild and served as president for two years, moving to vice-president next year, plus that I impressed Hogshead with my proposal for 'Nuln: At The Crossroads'.

Apparently, the department are planning to set up two post-grad groups next year, rather than the usual one, separating the full-time students from the part-timers, so the part-timers are more able to bond as one workshop group over two years, rather than half of the current single group leaving at the end of the first year to be replaced by another group of fresh post-grad virgins.