Thanks to everyone who posted a comment...
in response to my last entry. Am feeling a bit more positive now. I think I was just feeling really low and having a depressive episode. Am feeling slightly more motivated now towards my uni work, although I know time is really of the essence now. Am currently working on my creative writing portfolio although somewhere along the line I really have to make some headway on my dissertation. I really must get going on the write-up. I've done a lot of research and plenty of reading, all I have to do now is make it come together into a well-written, concise assignment. Hopefully once I start getting things down on paper - obviously I've already made notes and everything - then I'll be able to reword it into something that sounds academic enough. I know my topic well, but for some reason the task of sitting down and really giving it some hard graft seems very intimidating. Then again, I'm not a quitter. It's got to be done if I want to graduate, and I can't leave it until the last minute because it needs to be bound and printed professionally, so that's good in a way, it means I can't slack off too much. :)