Categories: work
Date: 13 February 2011 21:20:37
OK, so just a little under 10,000 words.It's not the best work I've done, I'll be content if it passes, and not too surprised if it lands back with me for more work over next weekend. But, it is finished, printed and in my bag ready for handing in in the morning.
The relief is enormous! I'm well aware of my limitations in this kind of academic writing work, unless I'm interested I won't bother. I'd've been more interested if I wasn't also having to hold back. If each section had been a 1500 word essay, (making it 30,000 words!) I'd've been fine, but only 500 words? I'm good at précis and condensing ideas, and I was seriously struggling to limit myself to 500 words! I'm a homily writer and deliverer, not a sermoniser.
Much as I enjoy my job, I'm not just interested in the theory, the reflective journalling, the speed with which ideas come in and out of fashion, depending on who's in Government.... We spoken of one set of ideas in a class a few months back, and they've been superseded already. I'm not saying I'm not interested in learning more, just not interested in the stuff I've been doing.
Bizarrely, rather than improve my professional skills at dealing with teenagers in the environment in which I encounter them, it's managed to give me a few clues to what's been going on in the world of Japes! So, maybe it's not been such a waste of time after all. (Or am I just a confused teenager in a mid-life crisis?)