Ok then; Procrastinators anonymous for March

[schroeder]

For all of us with March deadlines.

I've managed a couple of hundred words today mini-whoop

Come on you lot, stop fannying about on t'internet

Have been very good today - have a roughish version of one section which is where I hoped to be by the end of the day (its double the allowed wordcount at the moment!). As the TMA is more of a report than an essay I am hoping it won't cause me masses of angst.

Needed to get on with something to distract me from DD2's driving test this morning - she passed

I'm still on the February assignment, due tomorrow
Haven't started writing yet.

Will be back here on Wednesday.

Good work, schroeder. Well done webwiz's DD!

I have 2 due. I am feeling quite shitty today and I am planning to be in bed at 7pm. Good luck everyone.

Hope you're feeling better today LB29.

Hope you don't mind if I post here my progress today- tma due today at midnight.

319 words so far. Need about 2000.

Oh, FGS.

Had 2 hrs while DD was napping and I couldn't make myself write anything.

So it's going to be usual, write the whole essay in 4 hours in the evening thing. Again.

Espressos will be needed, but would be nicer...

Yeah, I'll do it,I've no choice but it won't be great. Oh well.

When's yours due? My next one isn't til April 5th, I think. But have to read a novel by James (and 2 others), whom I like a lot, but it's not the easiest read iyswim.

87???

Not that this is a surprise as you seem to only get firsts, iirc?

Well done!!!

I'll be lucky if I'll get a low 2.1 for this one.

Signing in. Got very,very ahead of myself (and a little bit cocky) But, as expected, I've sat back and the deadline is nearer than I want it to be now. March 16th

87! to the power of, well, 87

Okay, I'm starting. Now.

said, I'm od March 16th deadline. Mine is in 4 hours

Hello. DD202 in the end. So far pretty straightforward

Hello! Can I join you? I'm still trying to write mine (due tomorrow at midday) and doing anything rather than get on with it. Have just come back from taking the kids to see Flawless and have buggered about tidying things, so I guess it's going to be an all-nighter. Except I usually fall asleep face down on the keyboard.

I'm struggling to be honest because I got bogged down on the wrong thing and now there's not enough time to put it right. I suppose it's better to just submit something crappy rather than nothing at all? It's only worth 10% of the final mark. Why, why, why can't I just get on with things in plenty of time? It must be less stressful.

Hope you all get on OK.

I didn't get on in the end and asked for anoter extension. About 2 hours before the end of this extension . No reply yet (surprisingly).

Yes, yes, deffo better to send it, even if it's not your magnum opus- it'll make a big difference to your OCAS.

I didn't send one tma earlier in the course as I didn't feel it was good enough and now have an extra pressure to perform to get the grade I want. Substitution for 0 points doesn't really give you that much iyswim.

What's your tma about?

I'm also at 87!

I've got tma4 due on the 17th and I am not leaving it til the last minute again! I'm going to make a start on the reading this week, do extra reading and planning next week and then writing in the final week.

Sounds much better than trying to squeeze it all into 2 days and I want a higher mark this time, I have yet to get over 70 so far

I dream of 87.

Now tell me to turn of the 'puter 'cause I really have to crack on with this stupid essay. All I really want to write is;

Sir Humprey Davy
Was not fond of gravy
Lived in the odiom
Of having discovered sodium.

And I don't think it's long enough nor pertinent to be honest.

Oh bloody hell, that was, and still is, awful. Managed to hit the submit button at 11.57am for my midday deadline but my hands were shaking so much I nearly didn't manage it. Then I terrified myself by thinking I'd sent the wrong document and submitted a letter to my daughter's PE teacher asking that she be excused on the grounds of being pathetic bruised toe.

Mind you, maybe it would have been better if I had. I'm so mortified at the work I have produced - it's worse than awful. No structure, all waffle, no relevance, not properly checked, referencing all to hell ... and all my own fault I'm actually too embarrassed to look at it again and don't think I will be able to look my tutor in the eye. Next time I will read the question properly and then just get on with it. Yeh, right.

Still, at least it was submitted and it's not a huge percentage of the module. It's the first OU course I've ever undertaken - doing U211, Exploring the English Language. Not that anything in my essay remotely resembled good English!

Anyone else care to share tales of disasters to cheer me up?