I have finally finished and posted TMA01 all about The Cherry Orchard and political idealism. I was working on it for 20 hours yesterday (which of course meant sleep was scarce), but I am relieved it's done, I have sent it in using the eTMA system that the Open University has set up for the electronic courses like mine.
Oh well, now onto Katherine Mansfield's short stories - only 10-days later than scheduled, need to get that finished before Saturday so that I can start on Sunset Song (which was my favourite book on the pre-course reading).
Thursday, 25 October 2007
Friday, 19 October 2007
Procrastination
Why is it, that no matter what I tell myself, and no matter how often I tell myself, I still can't get motivated enough to get things done ahead of the deadline?
I have been trying since I finished the reading for The Cherry Orchard on Wednesday, to get something/anything done about the essay plan, but nothing's happening. I have got three days off next week, and I would rather (if I am being honest) not have to spend all three of those days working on the assignment when I have a perfectly good weekend going begging - this one coming up...
I am fully aware that I am one of the worst procrastinators in existence, but there must be something that can motivate me into pulling my finger out and doing something productive, right?
Anyway, it's Friday today - which means that the working week is almost over, it also means that my boss isn't in today and as well as trying to motivate myself into doing my homework this evening and coming weekend...I have to motivate myself to work on a project that I have been working on for three weeks (and was under the impression I had finished...but apparently not in as much pathetically minute detail as he would like) - if I am being honest I think he has no idea what to do with me, or what work to give me, so he is just giving me this project in order to save himself from having to figure out what I am meant to do!
Well...must head off into the sunrise (because that is what it is right now), and go to work. This weekend is the weekend for Chekhov and hair dye.
I have been trying since I finished the reading for The Cherry Orchard on Wednesday, to get something/anything done about the essay plan, but nothing's happening. I have got three days off next week, and I would rather (if I am being honest) not have to spend all three of those days working on the assignment when I have a perfectly good weekend going begging - this one coming up...
I am fully aware that I am one of the worst procrastinators in existence, but there must be something that can motivate me into pulling my finger out and doing something productive, right?
Anyway, it's Friday today - which means that the working week is almost over, it also means that my boss isn't in today and as well as trying to motivate myself into doing my homework this evening and coming weekend...I have to motivate myself to work on a project that I have been working on for three weeks (and was under the impression I had finished...but apparently not in as much pathetically minute detail as he would like) - if I am being honest I think he has no idea what to do with me, or what work to give me, so he is just giving me this project in order to save himself from having to figure out what I am meant to do!
Well...must head off into the sunrise (because that is what it is right now), and go to work. This weekend is the weekend for Chekhov and hair dye.
Wednesday, 17 October 2007
A week late
I have managed, albeit a week later than I would have liked, to finish reading the textbook chapters on Chekhov's brilliantly unusual play The Cherry Orchard. I would have finished the texts over two weeks ago, but work has been busy, and then last week I got some very bad news about my grandmother and the cancer that they discovered in her lungs 10 months ago, but chose to do nothing about.
Anyway, I don't feel ready yet, but over the next couple of days I will be working on my first draft and hopefully writing out the plans for my first TMA.
I am feeling very unsure of myself and my abilities right now, but that will fade, I just need a very loud and detailed pep-talk with my mirror image and everything will eventually be sorted out. I hope!
Anyway, I don't feel ready yet, but over the next couple of days I will be working on my first draft and hopefully writing out the plans for my first TMA.
I am feeling very unsure of myself and my abilities right now, but that will fade, I just need a very loud and detailed pep-talk with my mirror image and everything will eventually be sorted out. I hope!
Friday, 5 October 2007
Tutors
I got an email yesterday, and then today I got a letter. It seems that I have now been assigned a tutor - almost a week late, but much better late than never! At least that's how I figure it.
While I am doing the online version of the course, I am not massively happy that my tutor is the length of the country away - being in Manchester - but as I have already said...it's a tutor, and that (at the end of the very long day) is all that matters.
Today I received a load of gumfph about North West tutorial help (won't be rushing home to call them at premium rate - being in the South East means that I would be paying through the nose, only have free local calls!).
Well, knowing when my tutorials are, and how they are all going to work, I feel a bit more settled, though the tutorial week for the first TMA is after I actually hope to have the thing finished and submitted. We have been given an extra week for the benefit of all those people that are in the throes of revision for another course, but I don't particularly want to use the extra time because I fear that I will only end up falling behind if I have the extra time when (for me at least) it's completely unnecessary, and probably rather detrimental to the study pattern I am trying to build up.
Anyway, having tutor information, and a sort-of well laid out schedule is making me feel a little bit more productive and definitely far more in control of things than I felt last week at this time.
While I am doing the online version of the course, I am not massively happy that my tutor is the length of the country away - being in Manchester - but as I have already said...it's a tutor, and that (at the end of the very long day) is all that matters.
Today I received a load of gumfph about North West tutorial help (won't be rushing home to call them at premium rate - being in the South East means that I would be paying through the nose, only have free local calls!).
Well, knowing when my tutorials are, and how they are all going to work, I feel a bit more settled, though the tutorial week for the first TMA is after I actually hope to have the thing finished and submitted. We have been given an extra week for the benefit of all those people that are in the throes of revision for another course, but I don't particularly want to use the extra time because I fear that I will only end up falling behind if I have the extra time when (for me at least) it's completely unnecessary, and probably rather detrimental to the study pattern I am trying to build up.
Anyway, having tutor information, and a sort-of well laid out schedule is making me feel a little bit more productive and definitely far more in control of things than I felt last week at this time.
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