Monday, July 23, 2007

Irreplaceable ((June 10th Blog))

Well here I am again doing another blog, don't really know what to talk about but I guessed it was that time of week when I sit down and write something.
I've not been well for the past week, in fact I don't feel good today and I am so tired that I feel like I haven't slept in a week. I get this illness a lot and tiredness is one of the main symptoms which is a total pain because I don't have the time to be ill or to sleep as much as my body seems to want when I get this mystery illness. I've been ill since Tuesday and it is starting to get me down a little.
So with being ill I haven't been able to do much this week. I have so much work and course work to do but with being ill I just don't feel up to anything. I sat down to do some study the other day and after about 45 minutes I just couldn't carry on because I just felt so unwell and tired.
I managed to get an extension on my assignment because with being ill so much I've not been able to keep up. I got a week extra and had 300 pages left to read before I could even start my notes. Today I have been studying and have maybe 60 pages of reading left to do and hope to read at least 30 pages after I have finished this blog. The assignment is due by the end of Tuesday so I really need to get my act together and get as much done as possible. I am rushing through the reading and have skipped parts which may be very important but I just don't have the time to get it all done plus with being ill I don't feel up to doing much at all. Once I have done as much of the course work and reading I need to read the question and then write a set of notes. Writing a set of notes involves me going through all the course work (not in the way I read it) and sticking post it notes on things that look important and then coming back to them and looking more closely and writing some notes for my assignment. Then I am ready for the assignment. In an ideal world I could do with 2-4 days to do my notes but I don't have the time for that now so it will be done in about 4 hours and that's rushing so i may miss something I could use but it's the risk I have to take because there is no way I can get any longer on this assignment. Tuesday will then be spent on the 2000 word assignment. I just hope I don't get writers block because I need to get it done and do something that gets me a better mark than I got on the last one. I will be so happy to have it finished and submitted.
There is no rest for me once I get that assignment out of the way because I am behind with work and have about three weeks worth of work to do in 3 days. Well I promised I would get it done in three days (by Saturday) so I am going to be working ten hour days (maybe longer) to get it done but it pays the bills and I certainly need to money after what I've been spending lately. So I guess this week is going to be a very busy week for me and I just hope my health improves because if it doesn't then I am in big trouble because I won't be able to get anything done and that isn't good news.
Next week I will still be busy because I am not a week behind on my course because I needed a weeks extension and I am going away for fives days in less than two weeks so I need to get ahead on work hard on my course work so I can do my next assignment when I get back. I also need to start one of my 2 new courses. I want to have one finished for the first deadline which is the end of July, the other one I would love to finish for the first submission date but the way things are going I don't think that there is any chance of that. I am looking forward to them because they are in areas that I haven't studied before so it is a nice change for me to try new things now and then because it can be tiring just doing the same subject all the time. Also with more and more work coming in I have to work each day as well as keep on top of the housework and cooking so less time on the computer for me because when I spend too much time on here things don't get done and then i'm having to spend forever catching up so I think from now on I won't even put the computer on until I actually need it for work because I don't use it for study because all my course work (for the courses I am doing now) are in books so that's a good things i guess.
On Friday I went to see an amazing band called CLOCK at the Knowles Arms in Blackburn. They are a local band that my dad has been telling me about since 2004, everytime they have been local i have either been ill or had other plans so I made sure that I could see them this time even though I was ill. They are an amazing band and I am so glad that I went to see them now and will be seeing them in July when my friends from Denmark are here. I also have plans to see them again after that because every song they played on Friday night I know and a lot of them were my favourite songs too. I actually know the guitarist, Fran, because he used to drink in my local pub (although I haven't seen him in ages and he no longer drinks in there) and I know the bass player because he is a member of my running club (not that I ever go and I haven't run in months) so it was nice to see a band with some members who i know.
Saturday was a busy day for me. I woke up feeling like I was hungover even though I hadn't drank the night before - it was the smoke. I went to town and then went up to the Windmill for my lunch before calling to see my mum, then we went and called round at my brothers who was having a BBQ so we stayed and had some food. I treated myself to a brand new stereo for my bedroom too because the one I have in there is like 7 years old and keeps jumping on some of the tracks which is annoying so I got an amazing one with a USB thing and so far it's good.
Anyway I feel ill and need to do some more study and then I think I will relax in a bath. I need an early night because I am so tired now and it isn't even 8pm. I feel like a old woman needing my bed but I can't help it.

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