I'm alive and already annoyed at Brookes - yet again
So, I arrived back home today *YAY* (Accounts of my travels will follow, once I have washed all my clothes, unpacked, showered, went food shopping and had some sleep)
I have a real itch to do some nice cooking after living of all that cheap convini food at the moment, so a close study of my cookbooks might be in order while I am in the bathtub. I went online to send off texts to people telling them that I am back home (Skype is still awesome) before planning to head for my shower (followed by the bath), just to find that I have 50(!) new e-mails. Help! I think I will have to spend the next week sorting through them. :-S
Anyway, when I checked my friend's page, I saw quite a lot of "Squeeeeeel! Essay!" panickiness, which confused me, as I thought the deadline was on the last of April. A look in the YAB Guide confirmed this, but I still went into my mail box, just to see that all the deadlines have been changed *SIGH* I am getting rather exasperated with Yoko to be honest. I am tempted to actually file a formal complaint when I get back to the UK. The women is clearly not up to the job she is trying to do. She is a lovely lady, don't get me wrong - but she is incapable of taking care of the year abroad students. Anyway, hence I found out for the first time that the deadline for the proposition is at the end of THIS month (so in four days), while I have a month longer than expected for the main essay (which I am not unhappy about in the least, as it will give me a lot more time for interviews, considering the official deadline only allowed for about 2 weeks of actual term time, where I'd have a chance to talk to people). Not much worried by this, as I already know what I am doing and have a couple of interview records as well as reference books, I quickly wrote out my proposition and wanted to send if off before finally heading to the shower (I wanted to make sure that I don't forget about it, by doing it straight away). Past experience taught me that a last second look at our online blackboard is always a good idea though and since then I have tried to log on... 2 crashes of firefox and now a crashed internet explorer window are left to tell the tale. I am really, really getting tired of this. I seem to be spending more time fighting people's ineptness and incompetence than actually doing work. I will attach my proposition to an e-mail now, with a note that I could not log onto webct and hence am not too sure if what I have written is what they wanted from me and leave it at that. I am so sick of all this nonsense. Why the hell can't they just let us get back to what we should actually be doing - which is learning Japanese?
I have a real itch to do some nice cooking after living of all that cheap convini food at the moment, so a close study of my cookbooks might be in order while I am in the bathtub. I went online to send off texts to people telling them that I am back home (Skype is still awesome) before planning to head for my shower (followed by the bath), just to find that I have 50(!) new e-mails. Help! I think I will have to spend the next week sorting through them. :-S
Anyway, when I checked my friend's page, I saw quite a lot of "Squeeeeeel! Essay!" panickiness, which confused me, as I thought the deadline was on the last of April. A look in the YAB Guide confirmed this, but I still went into my mail box, just to see that all the deadlines have been changed *SIGH* I am getting rather exasperated with Yoko to be honest. I am tempted to actually file a formal complaint when I get back to the UK. The women is clearly not up to the job she is trying to do. She is a lovely lady, don't get me wrong - but she is incapable of taking care of the year abroad students. Anyway, hence I found out for the first time that the deadline for the proposition is at the end of THIS month (so in four days), while I have a month longer than expected for the main essay (which I am not unhappy about in the least, as it will give me a lot more time for interviews, considering the official deadline only allowed for about 2 weeks of actual term time, where I'd have a chance to talk to people). Not much worried by this, as I already know what I am doing and have a couple of interview records as well as reference books, I quickly wrote out my proposition and wanted to send if off before finally heading to the shower (I wanted to make sure that I don't forget about it, by doing it straight away). Past experience taught me that a last second look at our online blackboard is always a good idea though and since then I have tried to log on... 2 crashes of firefox and now a crashed internet explorer window are left to tell the tale. I am really, really getting tired of this. I seem to be spending more time fighting people's ineptness and incompetence than actually doing work. I will attach my proposition to an e-mail now, with a note that I could not log onto webct and hence am not too sure if what I have written is what they wanted from me and leave it at that. I am so sick of all this nonsense. Why the hell can't they just let us get back to what we should actually be doing - which is learning Japanese?