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Date: 30 January 2005 22:15:06
This coming Friday is the deadline for the university application. Today I've put the finishing touches to the research proposal (including printing it out in better quality than FastDraft!), got the references (such as they are) and academic transcripts (minus one which will have to follow as despite requesting it in loads of time they still haven't sent it, that's you I'm talking about City University grrr) and almost completed the application form. I just now have to figure out how to fit eleven jobs (including a description of the main duties) into fourteen narrow lines, and then I'm pretty much sorted. Except that I'm bound to have forgotten something. I've also emailed the OU's Regional Office to request that they give me a reference on headed paper (cribbed from my tutor's plain paper reference), I really hope I've got the right person as this stress is doing my blood pressure no good at all! Not to mention my waistline from all the comfort eating (thank goodness this all happened before the start of Lent! Otherwise I'd be OD-ing on celery sticks, and then I'd be even more miserable!).
Of course, once all that's finished, having spent the last month moaning about how hard it is to write 500 words, I then have to spend the next month adding another 500 words to what I now consider a perfect proposal, in order to satisfy the ESRC application requirements. So no doubt I'll be moaning about that as well before too long :D