Date: 12 May 2010 18:59:09
I haven't said anything much about student-ish matters for a while, but mindful that this was after all the point of this blog, here goes. Sorry for another list, it's about all I can manage.
* I have essays to mark. Not many, and they're the last ones this academic year, but as usual I'm not in the mood. They'll be done by the weekend though, and then I need to think about helping the students get ready for their exam.
* I submitted a chapter of my thesis last week, still awaiting comments. I'm worrying that having thought it was fine, actually it might not be. We'll see.
* Due to having sat on the aforementioned chapter for weeks, as I was too tired after working full-time to finish it off and start the next one, I find that I have used up pretty much all of my 'slippage' time (I am meant to submit at the end of September, but was hoping to submit a month or two earlier. Now it looks like it will be right up to the wire). I have just started working 4 days a week, so I need to be ultra-productive on the day a week I go into uni. But I'm really thankful that I have that day, I'd be screwed without it.
* The book for which I wrote a chapter has a publisher (can't remember if I said that already here, probably did) - I need to get my final polished chapter in by the end of next month.
* I saw my dream academic job advertised last week - part-time, wanting community nursing specialist, research-based department as well as practical etc, in Scotland - but am not going to apply. It's to start in August, and my thesis has to be my priority. Plus I'd feel guilty if I left my job too soon after changing to this new practice. If HD doesn't get a job elsewhere and we're still here, then I'll start seriously looking for work at the end of the year. Hopefully by then I'll have had my viva and be well on the way with corrections, so will be much less stressed and tired. Now is not the time to be applying for jobs.
* That is all. The end of September is 4.5 months away. That's not very long.