It has been awhile...
I just realized recently that I haven't really kept up with my journals. At all. I suppose that has much to do with how consistently busy I have seemed to be. If I wasn't studying I was hanging out in a park or a pub, etc. And now, my exams are over, I've just returned from the BEST EVER holiday to Northern Ireland (and the return itself is sad), and I have to get down to my dissertation. Somehow, I have a feeling that it's not going to go very...smoothly. Or I hope it will, but something tells me that there will be a great deal of research effort with very little actual writing occurring. And that's a bit of a frightening thought.
My goal is to have this bugger finished by the first week of August so that I can go play around Sheffield and surrounding areas. I think maybe because the dissertation (at a mere 18,000 words) seems like such a daunting task, I'll have to set myself small goals -- if not per day, per week.
And I'll admit it, it hasn't actually really sunk in yet that I've basically finished uni now for good. Yes, must write el terrible dissertation,blahblahblah, but there are no more classes or exams or schedule, but saddest of all, no people. I have a sinking feeling that if I don't get really well and truly stuck in to this paper that I may become slightly depressed. It's a slightly disheartening thought.
Thankfully, at least until the middle of July I'll have Lisa and Rachel to go park frolicking with (only when I need a break of course), but unfortunatly other people that I have spent mounds of time with recently aren't around anymore.
So I will end with this positive thought: Thank Bob for facebook and MSN. *nods*
My goal is to have this bugger finished by the first week of August so that I can go play around Sheffield and surrounding areas. I think maybe because the dissertation (at a mere 18,000 words) seems like such a daunting task, I'll have to set myself small goals -- if not per day, per week.
And I'll admit it, it hasn't actually really sunk in yet that I've basically finished uni now for good. Yes, must write el terrible dissertation,blahblahblah, but there are no more classes or exams or schedule, but saddest of all, no people. I have a sinking feeling that if I don't get really well and truly stuck in to this paper that I may become slightly depressed. It's a slightly disheartening thought.
Thankfully, at least until the middle of July I'll have Lisa and Rachel to go park frolicking with (only when I need a break of course), but unfortunatly other people that I have spent mounds of time with recently aren't around anymore.
So I will end with this positive thought: Thank Bob for facebook and MSN. *nods*