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[unikorento]

I woke up this morning to an email telling me that I hadn't shown up for a (rather important) class where I was supposed to hold a presentation. And, also, my essay was late.

Up until this point, I thought I'd actually been on top of things. Not so!

It sucks. I suck. My new deadlines are now in January, which, well. Yes. Now there's more time but... Äh. Behold, me, the giant failure. I really thought I wasn't late yet, but when I started looking through, really looking through my papers, I realized that yes, I did have all the information. If I'd been keeping track properly, I would have known this. But I wasn't, so I didn't, and now here I am.

I spent the day feeling sorry for myself, being angry at myself, and effectively getting absolutely nothing done. Brother is coming to get me on Friday, so if I pushed it, I could have this done until then - but I also have work both Thursday and Friday. I'm so very, very disappointed in myself. I really thought I was getting past these kinds of fuck ups.


Tomorrow I go Christmas shopping! I have a List and a Plan, and I have confidence that there will be less people out there than past Christmases because people have been clever and bought things online in advance. Oh yes. It will be so.

Other than that, nothing new has been happening. I figured out that headache thing I was complaining about a few posts ago. Yay!

Icelandic flatmate has decided she's staying in Finland after she finishes her Master, which is also not a bad thing. (I'd maaaaaybe be a little bit happier about it if she stopped leaving beetroot smudges all over the kitchen, but in the grand scheme of things, I really have no leg to stand on when it comes to criticizing other people's cleaning habits.) The apartment has dropped to the usual 16 C indoors, as it does every winter. Ah, student housing. It will go up a little in January, I think, once there's more people in the apartment again, but for right now it's... actually a little bit cozy. I have a legitimate reason to drink a lot of tea, and walk around wrapped in a blanket.

Finally, I want to make a Christmas voice post here - but the quality of my recording equipment is very, very bad and there's a weird background noise to it. I can't quite decide if it would be worth it to do it anyway. Is it worth it?

Comments

[falena]

I'm sorry about the presentation snafu. Don't beat yourself too much over it, though. These things happen. Plus, if you're even just a little bit like me, your brain just refuses to file stress-inducing info, such as deadlines. The way I did it (in uni and actually still do for work stuff) is having a nice big calendar right next to my work station/computer. I write down deadlines as soon as I have them, so that they stare nicely at me, since my brain refuses to store such info.

Is it worth it?

IT IS. I ♥ voiceposts.

[tinypinkmouse]

Try not to feel too bad about the essay and presentation. Things like that happen sometimes. It sucks, but there's nothing to do but try to get over it I guess. At least you got a new deadline and wasn't just flat out failed (has happened to me, aand I really just forgot).

Good luck with the shopping. And of course voice post is worth it.

[dratinis]

Just echoing everything already said by everyone else. I get why you'd be upset. Hell, I'd be upset too. But I suppose all you can do is take it as a learning experience. Don't be too hard on yourself!

[feline_scribe]

Don't be so hard on yourself; people forget things, especially this time of year! Just take a deep breath, relax, and move forward. Also, glad to hear you got your headaches sorted out. :)

Hope your Christmas shopping goes well. I've been out a bit both of the past weekends doing some last bits & pieces shopping and the crowds have been pretty awful... :-/ Or, perhaps, my tolerance for morons is just at an all time low this year. lol.

I hope you have an enjoyable Christmas at home with your family. :)

[shistavanenjedi]

When I was doing my independent study in my thrid year I basically had to pick and choose which of the part of the course I did because there was just so much and a presentation was one of the things I didn't get around to doing. It was only a small part of the final grade and it was supposed to have been a presentation on a report we had to do. My report was handed in late and assignments for another module weren't as good as they would have been had it not been for the independant study (which was worth more than the assignments which I had to cut back work on anyway). Things like this do happen.