Categories: random, university
Tags: writing, random, teaching, diet
Date: 26 October 2012 18:38:43
My poor neglected blog! Apologies (to my one remaining reader) for radio silence, it's not that nothing's been happening, just that work etc has been busy busy busy so nothing interesting is happening :)
Work is going well, I'm really enjoying it, but it is very full on (which is good) and I've had to do a fair few evening interviews recently. What is good is that I am building enough time in lieu to be able to leave an hour early a few times a week and go to the gym; this and the diet is (generally) going well and I only have another few pounds to go and I'll have lost a stone from when I was at my heaviest earlier this year. So that's good.
My two OU courses have started up again, so that's all extra work, and they have asked me to consider taking on another one, just for one year while the regular tutor has a sabbatical, starting in February 2013. Good points would be: level 3 and public health course would look great on my CV, even if it is only a year; the money would be welcome of course; the course is interesting; and because it runs from Feb-Oct and my other courses are Oct-June it means that I would still have a bit of extra money coming in over the summer (I know I have my job so it's not like I'm not paid at all for those three months, but I do notice each summer when I don't get paid for the OU work). Less good points would be: I'm working full-time and doing two OU courses on top of that, and there would be 5 months where this one would overlap with those; I'm knackered and would like to have a bit of a life despite loving what I'm doing. I'm not sure which way I'll choose yet - but anyway it was nice to be asked, it was a little bit of affirmation which never goes amiss.
I now have the week off work, but will mainly be trying to write an article (I have signed up to #acwrimo or academic writing month on twitter, to try and get myself into gear for getting myself published; this is really important to me both professionally and personally). So I'll probably be going back to work for a break! But anyway it *is* nice to not have to get up at 6am and deal with Scotrail for a few days, and I will make sure I go out for a good brisk walk each day, weather permitting.