Yesterday was crunch day with two assignments due at the same time. It is rare to be completely happy with assignments and these were my first in 4 years but I know through the process I gained knowledge, or at least certainly information, perhaps even a small amount of wisdom though it feels more like the Eastern sort of wisdom where you begin to know how much you do not know.
I prioritised my assignments this week so need to catch up on the next module in the sequence for both units. This was a sensible thing to do but now I am feeling more greatly the weight of studying part time with 2 units a semester while working full time. I figured as my job is not as intense as that of a full time classroom teacher that it would be very manageable to do a course load designed for one. Unfortunately I got sick and had to take leave but did not have the mental clarity to produce essays though I manged to do some of the necessary drudgery of the process assembling resources, headings, and rubrics. Having the due date on the first day of a week long school holiday program added to the pressure but by devoting both of the last two weekends exclusively to writing I managed to make all the prep pay off. I feel like I will have to continue to cut out activities from my life during semester in order to make work and university more comfortable bedfellows. Cutting down on the non-GLAM volunteering would be a start but I can already see that my 10 days at the National Conference of AMAGA will put pressure on the next double due date of assignments.