Like Sands Through the Hourglass… November 7, 2007
The saga of my assignment feels very much like a bad soapy where it takes a week of hour-long episodes to move the story forward by 10 minutes. You can miss it for a month and tune in to find only an hour of their time has passed. Then a long-running storyline is wrapped up in the space of one episode, leaving the viewer’s head spinning. That’s exactly what’s happening here.
After weeks of phaffing around, reams of paper wasted printing articles that I haven’t used and an awful lot of online Scrabble I finally have about the assignment about two thirds done. The other third will be written and submitted online by 5pm Friday. So it’s going to race to its conclusion after an over-lengthy start.
The assignment for my other subject - a 2000 word essay that I have done nothing toward - is due next Wednesday and has to be posted. I’m pretty sure I’ll be making another phone call to get an extension on that one.
The only problem with extending the time to do the assignments is that they then cut into my cramming time for the exams at the end of this month. One of them is multiple choice so, thanks to the fact that I have pretty good recall for things I’ve read or seen, I should be able to get through that one OK. The other, though, is short answers which means I need to be able to actually write stuff down and sound like I know what I’m talking about. That’s been my major stumbling block with this assignment.
And, bizarrely, I’m enjoying it.
Good luck and it’s good you are enjoying it. That was my major reason not to go back to study (apart from lack of talent) - it’s a lot of time to spend on things you hate. And I have housework for that.
Yeah, it’s great news that you’re getting through it and enjoying it. I don’t know how you do it with 2 kids, dogs, cats and a house! (I would go mental if I tried to organise all that…)
Organise … I wouldn’t call what I do around here organising. It’s more like disorganising.