gap between classing dates and interview.

studentphil

brazilianwax wrote: »

Did you get an icecream to lick??

It is too cold for ice creams tonight.

NMM, call it is a date or going out having a good time, I don't mind.

She got wet too as it rained.

brazilianwax

studentphil wrote: »

It is too cold for ice creams tonight.

NMM, call it is a date or going out having a good time, I don't mind.

She got wet too as it rained.

I thought you Yorkshire folk were made of stronger stuff!

Glad you had fun.

studentphil

brazilianwax wrote: »

I thought you Yorkshire folk were made of stronger stuff!

Glad you had fun.

When the rain is dripping off your hair and your clothes are wet through and the bus is no where in sight it is does not matter how strong one is.

Savvy_Sue

studentphil wrote: »

Not many people can revise for 8 hours solid and 8 hours in one go would not be productive anyway, Shocking I do know a job involves 7-8 hours a day.

My point was that there are many times when one has to do HARD work for stretches much longer than 2 hours. Yes, it's well known that we work better after a break, and it's usually possible to take several short breaks throughout the day, but I spent two hours this morning slogging over the charity's accounts, which I found very intellectually challenging, very tedious and requiring several cups of tea, but I didn't feel that entitled me to take the rest of the day off.

Instead I 'found' the latest version of a document which had gone missing on the computer, thus saving a volunteer retyping 4 pages of carefully worded minutes and earning her undying gratitude; had a quick lunch, did (most of) a crossword (had to get a colleague to help with the last two clues); and went back to work for 3 hours.

I know it's a long time since I did my degree, but I HAVE studied since then, invariably at the END of a long day at work.

studentphil wrote: »

I am keeping to my promise of 30 mins from now on.

But are you going to pay up for the promise you DIDN'T keep? (NB I've kept a promise I didn't even make!)

studentphil wrote: »

I do respect you and I do always find your comments insightful, so I do not know what is funny about it.

Partly I always find it funny when people call me wise - oddly it's rarely the chaps I live with! And never my sons, who are of course only a little younger than you. :rotfl: So thank you for that ...

But the frustration is that you SAY you respect me and find my comments insightful - so why do we go round and round and ROUND the same things over and over and OVER again?

On second thoughts, please don't answer that or we'll start again ...

studentphil

Savvy_Sue wrote: »

My point was that there are many times when one has to do HARD work for stretches much longer than 2 hours. Yes, it's well known that we work better after a break, and it's usually possible to take several short breaks throughout the day, but I spent two hours this morning slogging over the charity's accounts, which I found very intellectually challenging, very tedious and requiring several cups of tea, but I didn't feel that entitled me to take the rest of the day off.

Instead I 'found' the latest version of a document which had gone missing on the computer, thus saving a volunteer retyping 4 pages of carefully worded minutes and earning her undying gratitude; had a quick lunch, did (most of) a crossword (had to get a colleague to help with the last two clues); and went back to work for 3 hours.

I know it's a long time since I did my degree, but I HAVE studied since then, invariably at the END of a long day at work.

But are you going to pay up for the promise you DIDN'T keep? (NB I've kept a promise I didn't even make!)

Partly I always find it funny when people call me wise - oddly it's rarely the chaps I live with! And never my sons, who are of course only a little younger than you. :rotfl: So thank you for that ...

But the frustration is that you SAY you respect me and find my comments insightful - so why do we go round and round and ROUND the same things over and over and OVER again?

On second thoughts, please don't answer that or we'll start again ...

I am just soft and a long essay does knock it out of me for a few days. I think I am rather emotionally run down and after years and years of essays they do seem to take more out of me now than they used to do.

I do not think I have to pay anything as I made that promise to ensure that I did my essays and I did and no one can surely say that I can not have a few days rest after doing several thousand words.

We go round and round because it takes me a long time to deal with my emotions. However, now I feel I have finally come to see that any sort of result on my course is good and I have now stopped beating myself up as to what a failure I am because I am not top of the tree.

I know in the working world you have to be able to put up with many hours a day.

Sons do tend to find their own mothers annoying and think everyone else has a far cooler mum than them. It is a universal type of thing I think.

Need_More_Money_2

studentphil wrote: »

I do not think I have to pay anything as I made that promise to ensure that I did my essays and I did and no one can surely say that I can not have a few days rest after doing several thousand words.
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You really need to be better prepared for the world of work. Writing a few thousand words is surely not that hard that you have to take 2 days off to recover? As I said earlier, I wrote a lot more than that and I had a full time job to do at the same time. I don't think my boss would've been impressed if I took 2 days off after every few thousand words!

studentphil

Need_More_Money wrote: »

You really need to be better prepared for the world of work. Writing a few thousand words is surely not that hard that you have to take 2 days off to recover? As I said earlier, I wrote a lot more than that and I had a full time job to do at the same time. I don't think my boss would've been impressed if I took 2 days off after every few thousand words!

You are clearly tougher than me. I do need to build up my strength because I do feel very run down at the moment.

brazilianwax

Sorry Phil, you PROMISED to be on here for no more than 30 mins a day until your exams are over (24th May rings a bell).

There were no get out clauses.

You owe £50 to charity. End of.

studentphil

brazilianwax wrote: »

Sorry Phil, you PROMISED to be on here for no more than 30 mins a day until your exams are over (24th May rings a bell).

There were no get out clauses.

You owe £50 to charity. End of.

We shall see if I have 50 quid available I will give it to charity. But if I have no money I can not give it.

Need_More_Money_2

studentphil wrote: »

We shall see if I have 50 quid available I will give it to charity. But if I have no money I can not give it.

You shouldn't have entered into the deal if you couldn't pay up
Besides, you're always telling us you have your student loan money in the bank