how d'you like this sentence? "i'm too stressed, finally." but it's true
the research ethics application is sent in, only two months later than they expected.
it's done now and i told them about my internet, which legitimately has in the past failed just as i thought an email was sent and it failed at the critical moment where the draft was lost but the email was not sent so there's no record of it. tomorrow i'll go drop off four copies at the office.
tonight is michael's birthday so i'm going for one drink with him after work, and then coming home and transcribing. tomorrow i want to buy tupperware at dunnes, and cook plum soup and chocolate chip cookies, and then go to jens's house and transcribe all day. I'm going to need a total-comfort hug (the kind from best friends or boyfriends, flatties can't provide that) by the end of tomorrow- he lands at 11:20 so he'll be home some time after midnight. and i'd definitely be up anyway. nothing too crazy can happen because he has work at 8 the next day. and because i'm too stressed, finally.
off to work now. I think I'll be doing research while they write- bringing one book and my little notebook and starting to take notes. I also get to tell them they can do writings once a month when they give me perfect compositions every week. I need to find some kind of exercise that makes them like, write the same sentence in formal and informal style so they can not only recognize but produce the difference. Maybe I'll get to that in October, because I'm not really paying attention to much else before then. I nearly had one of my trademark breakdowns while waiting for the DART this morning on the way to a group interview- one of the people in the advanced class is a teacher during the schoolyear and got me in touch with a few of her students. They provided lots of information- now I don't have as many non-Irish as Irish interview subjects. Wasn't it supposed to be the other way around?
Point being, I've reached the state of scaredness where I actually can (will/must) write this thing. I have just a bit more time to write 15,000 words than I did to write 3x4,000 (=12,000) words for the last round of essays. Which makes this doable, and still doable well. I'm on it.
it's done now and i told them about my internet, which legitimately has in the past failed just as i thought an email was sent and it failed at the critical moment where the draft was lost but the email was not sent so there's no record of it. tomorrow i'll go drop off four copies at the office.
tonight is michael's birthday so i'm going for one drink with him after work, and then coming home and transcribing. tomorrow i want to buy tupperware at dunnes, and cook plum soup and chocolate chip cookies, and then go to jens's house and transcribe all day. I'm going to need a total-comfort hug (the kind from best friends or boyfriends, flatties can't provide that) by the end of tomorrow- he lands at 11:20 so he'll be home some time after midnight. and i'd definitely be up anyway. nothing too crazy can happen because he has work at 8 the next day. and because i'm too stressed, finally.
off to work now. I think I'll be doing research while they write- bringing one book and my little notebook and starting to take notes. I also get to tell them they can do writings once a month when they give me perfect compositions every week. I need to find some kind of exercise that makes them like, write the same sentence in formal and informal style so they can not only recognize but produce the difference. Maybe I'll get to that in October, because I'm not really paying attention to much else before then. I nearly had one of my trademark breakdowns while waiting for the DART this morning on the way to a group interview- one of the people in the advanced class is a teacher during the schoolyear and got me in touch with a few of her students. They provided lots of information- now I don't have as many non-Irish as Irish interview subjects. Wasn't it supposed to be the other way around?
Point being, I've reached the state of scaredness where I actually can (will/must) write this thing. I have just a bit more time to write 15,000 words than I did to write 3x4,000 (=12,000) words for the last round of essays. Which makes this doable, and still doable well. I'm on it.