It’s been a week with things to make me smile (see, it’s not all histrionics). I finished the first draft of assignment number 3. I’m feeling ok about having to spend my summer holiday working on assignment number 4 (see previous posts for why I am having to work so …
I’ve been on FIRE this week with my doctorate assignment writing! Well as on fire as I ever get with academic writing, and it’s almost as painful as actually being on fire (I’m really not a natural with this academic writing lark). Yes, I have actually been on fire – …
Really struggling this week, particularly with the question of why I am putting myself through the challenges of this doctorate! Really I am a person who should have done their doctorate full-time rather than trying to fit it in during my non-working time (previously known as spare time and holidays). …
This is (more than) a few days overdue, and I’m pinning the blame firmly on my mother! On the day I would normally (I use this term in the loosest possible sense) write this post, I woke up to messages from one of my aunts telling me my mother had …
344 words done on assignment number 3, which is the last assignment for my first year of studying at doctoral level. *capers about* Yeah, yeah, I KNOW there’s still a loooooong way to go before I reach 5000 words and finish writing this assignment. However, I didn’t think I’d make …
I was very impressed with myself this week because I found a work day with nothing vital booked in my diary and set it aside to take some time owning back. I am less impressed with with the fact that I then used this day at home to…work! However, I …
My eyesight has deteriorated to the point where I now need a guide if I am racing where there is mixed terrain. I made a silly back card to jolly myself along about it which you can see at the bottom of this post (I loosely based it on the …
I’m starting to fall behind on these blog posts, not because I have lost interest, but because I am struggling to find the time to fit blogging in because the extra time I spend at work is gradually increasing. Though someone did recently mention that if I spent as much …
Last Sunday was my last day of ‘hols’ (a.k.a. the hol I spent revising the Future Technologies Conference (FTC18) article, instead of relaxing like a normal person) and I thought it would be prudent to go through my work email inbox. I know, loser. Shaddap. Anyway, glad I did as …
I have allegedly been on holiday this week. In actuality I have spent a week of my allocated holiday time improving my article for the FTC18 conference. This is what life is like when you work a full time job in part time hours (and currently too busy with work …