Sharing my personal breed of insanity…
Time keeps on slipping into the future…and way too fast!
For as long as I can remember when I feel a bit overwhelmed, stressed or time poor, the same song has always played on a loop in my head.
Fly like an eagle.
Specifically, Seal’s cover from the 1994 ‘Space Jam’ soundtrack.
Yep. I know.
Here it is for your listening pleasure. Disclaimer: It might get stuck in your head.
Every day at the moment I start out feeling filled with possibility for productivity, yet somehow all of my time gets too quickly eaten up. I feel like even though every day is filled with doing work, I still have so much left to do! Lots of long meetings take up a lot of time. Whilst these are always very interesting, it often leaves me with very little time to get any assessment work done.
As always, the majority of my time is spent at work (gotta pay dem bills!). In the past, I have sometimes had time to get a bit of cheeky uni work done whilst at work, but not at the moment. There has been no reprieve, from the time I get there at 8.30am to the time I leave at 5.30pm. I use the commuting time on the train to get my lectures done because by the time I get home and make dinner I don’t have the energy to be bothered doing any more work.
I think that’s the hardest part of it all, juggling everything with so little time.
At the moment, most of the work I have to do for the internship requires me to use the computers at uni, as only they have the right software and access to files. This has meant a few nights of staying back late on the couple of days that I am actually on campus.
The Upside
After a lot of technical issues, the code in R and LabChart is finally working and I have managed to chug out a big slog of the data. I feel like I’ve actually made some genuine progress towards being able to analyse all this data.
I’m looking forward to that next step. Seeing how we can make sense of this huge mess of data and finding out what might come out of it all!
-Gemma
