Tags: thesis, supervision, interviews, teaching
Date: 21 April 2008 20:51:43
Today has been one of *those* days. To cut a (very long) story short, it was supposed to involve HD catching an early train down south to a job interview, but in fact involved missed trains, me driving him to the station in my nightshirt without an A-Z, out-of-order ticket machines, hastily rearranged interviews, another cancelled train, a frantic bus journey, and a discovery that the national rail timetable on the internet claimed there was a train to DownSouth that he could catch but actually they were making that up.
So that was HD's day up until 10am! The rest of the day has calmed down a bit, but we could have done without the excitement! I am more and more convinced every day that the soundtrack to our life will be the theme tune to the Benny Hill Show.
I had supervision today. I bumped into one of my supervisors a few hours before our meeting, and she looked at me rabbit-in-headlights-like and said "I wasn't supposed to be reading anything for this was I?" To which my equally rabbit-in-headlights-like response was "You weren't expecting me to write anything for this were you?" So yeah - it didn't really set the world on fire, as supervision sessions go. But it was OK, considering*.
Tomorrow is the final day of tutorials for this academic year. I can't even begin to tell you how happy that makes me.
* considering my utter lack of thesis-related work thanks to essays etc.