1. i can't believe it's the last day of march. Which just intensifies my anger (self directed) at the stress levels prompting me to really not be productive this month. time keeps moving forward, but i really feel like i'm in a holding pattern with school. and it just keeps getting worse. i think it's why my current cold just is lingering. and why i wake up with headaches (i'm thankful i'm sleeping though, i'll even accept the intense dreams). so frustrating.
but in an effort to try to do other things that then will maybe give me no other choice but accomplishing things, here's a recap of the rest of this month.
12 march - monday
pottery, oscars work, and tutoring work.
13 tuesday
oscars work
14 wednesday
oscars work, mexican dinner at nachos fiesta with jane-marie. yummy meal. jane-marie found a 2-1 mains voucher so we were able to get meals and (free margaritas). it was really nice to go out for a meal.
15 thursday
oscars work. made leprechaun masks.
16 friday
went to campus to do work, went to the gym.
had hoped to work on my draft that i had gotten back from adrian but it made me so overwhelmed i couldn't see how to start tackling it. unfortunately.
17 saturday
went to campus to attempt work and to the gym.
brittany and i went out to an irish pub for st patrick's day. they had live music. first group we saw was really good and then we waited for the next group. shockingly there was an hour and a half break of them setting up and it really wasn't worth the wait. that was a bummer. but we some guinness and heard/sang some irish drinking songs out for the holiday. it was nice.
photos: http://blogographannex.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/st-patricks-day.html
18 sunday
went to campus and to the gym.
really not an exciting week.again. sad.
19 monday
got a letter from curtin university (finally) although it wasn't one that would make me be able to go to australia. so then i felt even worse and more depressed about the situation (as opposed to being able to take a step forward in the process). spent the morning looking for how to get things notarized.
pottery. yay pottery although trying to glaze things really isn't my favorite part of the process. probably because it involves navigating around other people in the class and within the two hour time block there's not a whole lot of time. i tried to make a few more pieces too but there just wasn't a lot of time.
oscars staff meeting (ugh they're so drawn out and a waste of a lot of time) and work.
20 tuesday
went to the gym, made copies on campus, looked up more notary information. couldn't focus at all.
oscars work.
21 wednesday
met with a lawyer lady who notarized my documents. she was nice.
went to work
22 thursday
went to the gym, was on campus, went to work (we had a bake sale for dogs trust), went with brittany, jane-marie, and louise to see edinburgh uni's production of dracula. i really enjoyed it. it was done in the round. they didn't really have chairs though so we had to sit on the floor and there wasn't a lot of space so that was pretty painful. especially since my hips and knees have been hurting. so other than that, it was good. i really liked it. and we all had a pint after - nice to be in a group out for an evening.
23 friday
went to campus, downloaded and read journal articles. walked through the research park in lieu of going to the gym
24 saturday
went for a walk through town with brittany. through the scotch mist. the misty weather was pretty neat. we went down princes street and to the mall (yay poundland where i purchased a lock for the gym) and back through town. went in the newly re-opened portrait gallery. such a beautiful building and neat exhibits. and we had milkshakes.
we were supposed to go out for burgers but that plan got cancelled so we got a meal deal from sainsbury's and watched the woman in black movie. it was a nice chill evening.
photos: http://blogographannex.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/scotch-mist.html
25 sunday
went with brittany to cramond to explore cramond island. were on the bus with a spanish tour group - luckily we got on the bus and got out in front of them to walk to the island. walked all over the island and had a nice explore in the beautiful scottish spring weather that appeared for the day. then i skated up and down the promenade for 8 km while brittany read. we chose to come back into town to eat - had a burger and pint meal deal at the wetherspoons. and chilled out for most of the afternoon.
photos: http://blogographannex.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/cramond.html
26 monday
went to pottery. went to oscars- another long near pointless meeting. met jason for a pint who was in town for the weekend. it was nice to see him and catch up. actually felt like i had friends for a day. was still beautiful spring weather which also helped the mood.
27 tuesday
didn't go to campus - attack of the cold and sleep issues and my knee still hurts. read journal articles at home instead.
went to work. made butterflies with markers (which they don't call markers and get mad when i do) and water on coffee filters.
28 wednesday
read more journal articles and went to work.
got addicted to the draw something game. so much fun.
29 thursday
read more journal articles and went to work.
30 friday
went to campus, downloaded some more journal articles (i'm yak shaving .... still... eek) and tried to be productive. but only really managed to download some data and have two participants come in. went to the gym.
31 saturday
went to the post office to mail a cd that someone bought on amazon. i want people to buy the other stuff i have on there.
updated my files and organized some stuff on the computer. seems like i'm organizing but again not moving forward. but now i'm attempting to get somewhere. ugh.
have spent the week waiting on a new letter from curtin. which hasn't come. adrian had told me that he was given more paperwork earlier this week and had dealt with it but i'm still waiting. which is an issue. and keeps making me feel worse. and more stressed. and more at a standstill. a poor standstill.
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