It’s about time I wrote again.
I’m back at university, and things are starting to pile up. I’m really not liking this early easter, all my deadlines are being brought forward so what would have usually been due in week 8 or 9 is now due in week 6. I’m feeling the push, the endless cycle of lectures, readings, assignments, projects, research, planning.
On the other hand, I know I’ve got a lot less work than Oxbridge students, so that’s comforting. Still, I wish my research times were more productive… it’s taken me about 3 hours to find two worthwhile books for a literary review on Google Books/Scholar. An hour in the library looking for and finding 9 out of 11 books produced one possible source. Argh, such time wasted.
A side note: Samsung thinks I’m funny.
The un-academic side of my life, however, is proving a lot more fruitful – I’m seeing growth in my girls at BCEC’s youth group and loving every Sunday at church and every week leading up to MEC. Prayer’s getting pretty awesome for me too, I’m having to shave off time getting ready just so’s I can write more in my journal.
Uh… Yeah, this is why I don’t write often. That’s it.
27 February, 2008 at 6:00 pm |
I found your blog on google and read a few of your other posts. I just added you to my Google News Reader. Keep up the good work. Look forward to reading more from you in the future.
Tina Russell
28 February, 2008 at 9:35 am |
we don’t have THAT much work, just the odd 50 hours or so a week (correction natscis average 54.2 hours). Though in reality it’s more like 30 total.
you have OTHER blogs?…
28 February, 2008 at 10:11 am |
Yeah, the other blog is part of one of the classes I have to take for uni, Online Journalism. I’ll kill it off at the end of the semester
29 February, 2008 at 1:39 am |
i don’t understand what your other blog is about/for/purpose… other than for your course… matt’s phone was doing that ages ago at CnR, so we tried to keep it in the cupboard i think, but it still kept beeping, we know! and we can’t do anything about it! SHUSH!
29 February, 2008 at 10:59 am |
Well, part of my course involves being a journalist for the environmentalnewsonline.com site that two 3rd years have set up, I’m the America correspondent. It’s ok.
crazy phones…
4 March, 2008 at 10:15 pm |
So, everybody on your course has to write for the same blog? Do you have set days and allocated amounts to write? Just anything about the environment? Why are you the American correspondent? Would you like to answer anymore questions?
5 March, 2008 at 11:42 am |
Uh, we just chose our different areas, most of the continents are covered, plus education, local government, etc.
The blog is to get us out there as interactive journalists, we’re supposed to fully immerse ourselves in the community and can use the blog for anything from opinion posts, tracking our progress as journalists, or whatever.
Uh.. I can answer more questions..
11 March, 2008 at 12:34 am |
surely as a journalist, you’re meant to be the one asking the questions?
14 March, 2008 at 8:33 am |
Probably. but im a bad one.