:(((
I hate being a pushover.
A couple of the girls I'm sharing research subjects for my thesis just guilt me (more like threaten, really) into going out of town for a whole week to get language samples for our data. Normally I would be okay with that but a) I have a family gathering this weekend and everyone in my family is going, b) these two? Were not there when the other 4 of us had to cut our term break short to go get data for a week the last time so they don't even have the right to talk about "fair" in sharing the workload and c) one of them gets to go back early (like, on Monday when I have to stay until Thursday) and d) surprise, surprise! They're leaving the rest of the data collection here in college on Friday (all 13 children with cochlear implant subjects dear god) to yours truly because they "have" to go for voice clinic observation.
Really. I should be angry, but now I'm just stupid with anger + disappointment + sadness + whatever else.
My parents said I shouldn't go, so I told them just that but they got even angrier. Which I don't get at all. I lost sense of who should be angry here, really. The traveling will be tiring, I've to spend a week of talking to and entertaining children instead of taking a rest after a gruesome block of clinical practice and then whooyay I've to slide right back into clinics on Monday.
Thank you so fucking much, girls. I salute you for your kindness.
A couple of the girls I'm sharing research subjects for my thesis just guilt me (more like threaten, really) into going out of town for a whole week to get language samples for our data. Normally I would be okay with that but a) I have a family gathering this weekend and everyone in my family is going, b) these two? Were not there when the other 4 of us had to cut our term break short to go get data for a week the last time so they don't even have the right to talk about "fair" in sharing the workload and c) one of them gets to go back early (like, on Monday when I have to stay until Thursday) and d) surprise, surprise! They're leaving the rest of the data collection here in college on Friday (all 13 children with cochlear implant subjects dear god) to yours truly because they "have" to go for voice clinic observation.
Really. I should be angry, but now I'm just stupid with anger + disappointment + sadness + whatever else.
My parents said I shouldn't go, so I told them just that but they got even angrier. Which I don't get at all. I lost sense of who should be angry here, really. The traveling will be tiring, I've to spend a week of talking to and entertaining children instead of taking a rest after a gruesome block of clinical practice and then whooyay I've to slide right back into clinics on Monday.
Thank you so fucking much, girls. I salute you for your kindness.