Date: 31 January 2010 21:52:25
I haven't written much about the student experience (after all, the main point of this blog) recently. There is a good reason for this.
(excuse me while I cower with guilt at the thought of my poor neglected thesis).
I had a long conversation (well, one-sided ramble if I'm honest) with HD today about how I feel my job is exhausting me to the point that the last thing in the world I want to do is my thesis (even though if I'm honest, really the last thing I want to do is actually my day job). I have set myself a few mini-targets to get me through being at work - end of this week we have a holiday (YAY), end of Feb I will have done enough hours to be able to reregister as a health visitor when my registration next comes up for renewal (not for over 2 years, but it's good as a first short-term goal), mid-June the OU course finishes so I'll have one less thing to take up my time away from the thesis, end of June I will have been in the job the same amount of time as my first health visiting job after I qualified so if I can stay longer it will be better for my CV, end of July I have a conference to attend so moving job before that would be too stressful, same sort of time I'm aiming to submit my thesis (eeeeeeeek) so likewise it's silly to be jobhunting/changing before then. Of course if HD gets a permanent job somewhere else in the meantime then all this will be academic as I will have an excuse to leave earlier, but in the meantime giving myself these short-term goals will hopefully make life a bit more bearable.
It doesn't change the fact though that I am spending far too little time on my thesis. I know I was a world champion procrastinator the 4 years I was at uni actually being paid to do the thing, but now I'm too tired to procrastinate.
Which is a shame as this evening I discovered an opportunity to procrastinate in a way that would actually look good on the academic side of my CV, but I don't think I'm ever going to have the time. I might make a discreet enquiry (it involves blogging) but I probably need to be realistic and manage the plates I'm already juggling rather than taking on anything else.