Slight chicken-down (to avoid obscenities in the title)
Wednesday, 2 Mar 2011, 23:29
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It isn't even midnight and I have had to consume nearly all of my earlier purchased stimulants.
I am at that stage of the assignment that I find the most frustrating. The majority of the information is there, but in no particular order. It's exhausting and scream-inducing; scrolling up and down the page; cutting and sticking here, there and everywhere. It's like being back at school with a pair of scissors and a bizarre magazine, and being asked to make a sensible collage with it. It's possible, but it's not easy. The easy bit was picking the magazine.
This is the third and final assignment for this course, and I find the unstructured nature of it both horrific and wonderful, alternating my emotional response at various stages of the construction that is currently in progress. I find the appendices particularly frustrating in terms of the constant scrolling up and down. It is times like this that the benefits of hand written assignments become apparent. It makes me far less dizzy to look at several pages side by side, than it does continually seeing words whizzing up and down a discretely flashing computer screen. It's too late to start writing by hand now though, so don't suggest it. Appreciated.
Twelve and a half hours. The clock is ticking once again.
Slight chicken-down (to avoid obscenities in the title)
It isn't even midnight and I have had to consume nearly all of my earlier purchased stimulants.
I am at that stage of the assignment that I find the most frustrating. The majority of the information is there, but in no particular order. It's exhausting and scream-inducing; scrolling up and down the page; cutting and sticking here, there and everywhere. It's like being back at school with a pair of scissors and a bizarre magazine, and being asked to make a sensible collage with it. It's possible, but it's not easy. The easy bit was picking the magazine.
This is the third and final assignment for this course, and I find the unstructured nature of it both horrific and wonderful, alternating my emotional response at various stages of the construction that is currently in progress. I find the appendices particularly frustrating in terms of the constant scrolling up and down. It is times like this that the benefits of hand written assignments become apparent. It makes me far less dizzy to look at several pages side by side, than it does continually seeing words whizzing up and down a discretely flashing computer screen. It's too late to start writing by hand now though, so don't suggest it. Appreciated.
Twelve and a half hours. The clock is ticking once again.