I would love to write in here a bit more about what i have been up to study-wise, what I’ve been thinking and learning, but there isn’t any time! Im spending all my time lurching from assignment to assignment, without being able to do anything more than the bare minimum of reading required to churn out the words i need to hand up to pass. Im a bit disappointed actually. I’ve been thinking quite seriously about dropping a topic, and I’ve asked a few people what they think about that, and their responses have been interesting in that all the men say “Suck it up and get on with it - no-one expects you to be a prize-winning student when you are working at the same time, don’t worry about it!” and the women all say “Don’t let it affect your health, if you feel like its too much then let one go and then you can turn out the quality of work that you want to.” Interesting divide there. In any case, the possibility has passed, its too late to withdraw, so I guess I’m just gonna suck it and see. But I’m pretty frazzled. And it feels pretty bad handing in low quality work.

I have photos from Womad I’d love to show you, stories from the last few months I’d love to tell, but there is just no time. Even work has gotten so busy lately that it took me 3.5 hrs to write a tiny blurb on a friend’s Facebook wall today, in between interruptions and phone calls…. You would think i would be able to finish a sentence, but no, more difficult than it seems. And it’s weeks between peeks at my friends’ blogs or flickr pages….

So i guess, the short story is that all is going well. Study, work, life, love; its all ticking along, some bits faster than others. The VNM is away at the moment, out in the field and not returning until the day after I go out in the field (woooo, field trip to Esperance, 2 weeks of excavations and surveys in the day and report writing at night, actually cant wait!), so we miss each other there, but will catch up again in the couple of weeks before I head to Tokyo for the Wedding. Five weeks apart… oh well. You get that.

And now, its time to go write a tender submission. woo.

• indigorayz said on 09/04/01 at 03:33 PM.....

  Oh honey,I have the deepest of compassion for your situation. I am currently doing 8 subjects and 12 fucking assignments. Its hard. After 3 years of this I have to agree with the men and partly agree with the women.
  P’s make degrees is what I hear alot.It took me a long time to get my head around that…..Always on the run and always not doing the best you feel you could.Really makes you question the education system but a pass will get you there.
  Just breathe and take it a moment at a time and make sure you sleep enough.SLEEP has to be the most important thing I have learnt about study.Oh and food!
  Keep at it honey! Just remember there is light at the end of the tunnel and YOU WILL make it there!
  Friends will understand your commitments!

• Fiona said on 09/04/13 at 07:55 PM.....

  This is the first time I’ve checked your blog in months (for similar time-poverty reasons)! My two cents’ worth is to look at the hoped for end result: what’s needed to get it (usually average grades will do, but I know that’s hard!), and how the whole endeavour is balanced against rest of life… sounds like do what you need to to get the result, but not much more than that!