Just like 'Top of the Pops', this is my 'Top of the Concerns' going on for me for the past week.
5. Christmas shopping
4. Money
3. NYE tickets and hospitality bookings
2. *Personal*
1. University Deadlines
Question for you to think about. Who invented the term 'deadline'? I've always wondered this. To have a deadline is never really a good thing, it also does not sound good. Thinking about it deeper though, its not like something is going to die on the day that concerns your work being handed in. A crazy theory that I just thought of just now, whilst sitting in my chair listening to Sander Van Doorn, Renegade, perhaps in medieval times, to have a deadline would be to get your work done and if you didn't you would be killed? medieval universities? if you are a historian get back to me on that theory. I think it's delightful.
Okay reader, you are given an assignment to type up a 2000 word essay on a specific media law subject, you are also given a 1000 annotated bibliography to type up, which requires you to read the majority of the books that you are going to use, and you are given a evaluation for you radio project. All to be done in a months time (well even less time now). What do you do first?
I am kind of at this stage in time. What do you do? I think about this work and imagine it as a mountain that represents proud, dignity, relief and self accomplishment, because it's what you often feel when you get the work done and you've done a lot to do it. Oh how I desperately want to feel these emotions, but alas, I am at the bottom of the mountain accompanied by other students that are in the same position as me.
Now where would one of my blogs be without a report from work. Of course I have been slaving away in work. One of the key events that strive my department is the distinct memory of customer asking stupid questions. Now if you remember in my last post, I had a not really stupid but more random question. This week I have not one, but two stupid questions that were asked to me and my colleague at the time and I would love to share them with you.
Question One:
Location: Entrance Door
Two women come into the building, one shows her membership card, then turns and asks me this:
Woman 1 "Excuse me, can you pay on card in here?"
Me "Yes, only debit card though."
Woman 2 " And Im her friend, so what do I do?"
Me "....erm, you pay for your shopping?"
Question Two:
Location: Exit Door
A woman is slowly walking out the building, looking around at the adverts on the walls, then turns and asks this:
Woman "What time dya shut?"
Colleague "8:30"
Woman "And then what?"
Colleague "...... then were closed? thats it?"
The hardest part to stupid questions being asked to you is to try and not give out the most sarcastic answer. Giving out an answer that doesn't sound like your not making them look stupid is difficult.
To sum up this week for me, University is going well, I am happy, but when coming to the work I have to do, it's not good to think how much is there. Work is same old same old. As for just me personally, hmm, Let me get back to you on that, I've got a lot on my mind at the moment.