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May. 7th, 2004 01:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
out_thereSo...
I have a shocking headache. Just *pounding* behind my temples. It's not too bad at the moment, because everyone's out at lunch (Quiet office! How I love thee!) but, yeah, pain. Pain that painkillers are not removing.
(It's karmic justice, I tell you. Took a couple days off work to finish the two assignments, and got a doctors certificate even though I wasn't sick. So, of course, now I'm coming down sick. *eyes immune system warily*)
So, I'm working, but I can barely concentrate. So, I'm spending a lot fo time going, 'Where is that file? I had that file...' and slowly increasing to 'Where the fuck did I put that file?!' and then finding it in weird/random/obvious places.
My desk was clear last week. It is now a total mess. On the other hand, it's Friday, so... yay. Four hours until I have an entire weekend to relax, sleep and do the study for that damned admin course. (yes, I know I said I was going to finish that months ago. Instead, I procrastinated. 'Go me.' Or, 'I suck.' Whichever's appropriate.)
Anyway, according to the poll, I get to write Casey farewelling Natalie and Jeremy next. Okay. I already have a snippet of Casey-Nat dialogue written from last night's class. (I had to write. It was that or sleep during class. In my defense, I did pay attention to at least 2 out of the 3 hours of endless talking about super and insurance.)
Oh, on another less than thrilling thought, I realised how I stuffed up my assignment. There is a certain morbid thrill to sitting in a lecture, eyeing your assignment sitting with the rest of the pile on the teacher's desk, and mentally working out just how much you screwed up the calculations. Thinking: "It'd take a couple of hours to fix it at home, and wasn't the *technical* due date tomorrow, but then you'd need to get it back to the lecturer, and is he even on campus on Friday?" I vaguely panicked about it while taking lecture notes and then spoke to the lecturer. He said that for the amount of marks that particular part of the assignment was worth, and the amount of emphasis placed on the technical calculations (as opposed to the descriptions of the theory), it wasn't worth the effort of correcting.
And, man, what happened to my lunch hour? It's just gone. Why is lunch gone when my headache isn't? Seriously, I am paying for some lousy karma. And I hadn't even bitched about my lousy morning yet... I'll post that one in an FLocked entry.
I have a shocking headache. Just *pounding* behind my temples. It's not too bad at the moment, because everyone's out at lunch (Quiet office! How I love thee!) but, yeah, pain. Pain that painkillers are not removing.
(It's karmic justice, I tell you. Took a couple days off work to finish the two assignments, and got a doctors certificate even though I wasn't sick. So, of course, now I'm coming down sick. *eyes immune system warily*)
So, I'm working, but I can barely concentrate. So, I'm spending a lot fo time going, 'Where is that file? I had that file...' and slowly increasing to 'Where the fuck did I put that file?!' and then finding it in weird/random/obvious places.
My desk was clear last week. It is now a total mess. On the other hand, it's Friday, so... yay. Four hours until I have an entire weekend to relax, sleep and do the study for that damned admin course. (yes, I know I said I was going to finish that months ago. Instead, I procrastinated. 'Go me.' Or, 'I suck.' Whichever's appropriate.)
Anyway, according to the poll, I get to write Casey farewelling Natalie and Jeremy next. Okay. I already have a snippet of Casey-Nat dialogue written from last night's class. (I had to write. It was that or sleep during class. In my defense, I did pay attention to at least 2 out of the 3 hours of endless talking about super and insurance.)
Oh, on another less than thrilling thought, I realised how I stuffed up my assignment. There is a certain morbid thrill to sitting in a lecture, eyeing your assignment sitting with the rest of the pile on the teacher's desk, and mentally working out just how much you screwed up the calculations. Thinking: "It'd take a couple of hours to fix it at home, and wasn't the *technical* due date tomorrow, but then you'd need to get it back to the lecturer, and is he even on campus on Friday?" I vaguely panicked about it while taking lecture notes and then spoke to the lecturer. He said that for the amount of marks that particular part of the assignment was worth, and the amount of emphasis placed on the technical calculations (as opposed to the descriptions of the theory), it wasn't worth the effort of correcting.
And, man, what happened to my lunch hour? It's just gone. Why is lunch gone when my headache isn't? Seriously, I am paying for some lousy karma. And I hadn't even bitched about my lousy morning yet... I'll post that one in an FLocked entry.
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Date: 2004-05-06 09:35 pm (UTC)And there's nothing more fun then realizing your mistake after turning an assignment in. I *hate* that.
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Date: 2004-05-06 09:46 pm (UTC)*stretches neck* Yeah, that feels better. *g*
I had a killer headache this afternoon. I think the screwing up of the spreadsheet had a lot to do with it.
Eurgh. On the good side, at least you caught it. I mean, it's lousy finding the mistake, but it's far better finding it and fixing it than, y'know, giving it to everyone and having them find it.
And there's nothing more fun then realizing your mistake after turning an assignment in. I *hate* that.
Well, at least it gave my the spike of worried adrenaline that kept me awake for the last hour.
And, well, yeah. Really, I put the assignment together in the space of a couple days. If I'm being really honest, I put it together between 1.30pm and 4.30am, and must have taken at least 2-3 hours as breaks. So, yeah, under 12 hours worth of work...
If I get anything more than a pass, I should thank my lucky stars.
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Date: 2004-05-07 06:37 am (UTC)Yeah, totally. While it wasn't the best timing, it definitely wasn't the worst.
I just don't know why I missed it the first three times I checked. Or, for that matter, why the economics expert I was doing it for missed it when I asked her to check my work. In some places, the tax expense was higher than the taxable income! C'mon!
If I get anything more than a pass, I should thank my lucky stars.
*thinks good passing thoughts*
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Date: 2004-05-07 04:56 pm (UTC)*snerk* Oh, that's a good warning that something's seriously wrong!