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

Thanks for your kind words Proles! It would be nice to be pleasantly surprised, but I don't see that happening somehow. Ever the optimist, me. Oh well, maybe now that the first one's over and done with, I will be able to pull myself together, self-administer a boot up the bum and vow to read the question properly next time before just bloody getting on with it. Maybe...

Love the potato print TMA. Did it get a mark? Hahaha. Would have loved to have seen the tutor's face.

I see you've had some really good marks - well done! Personally, I'll be delighted to stay out of negative numbers.

tartan, what Proles says- I'm surre it's not so bad as you think it is.

I had a feeling like that quite a few times and still got 2.1.

Mmm...disaster tales- last tma I submitted had only a third of the wordcount set? Still, got 2.2 for it. Mind you, I wasn't very happy with it-but still, it was a pass. So chin up, I'm sure it'll be ok.

lol Tartan at exploring the english language and negative numbers, you are funny. Well done getting it in on time. I suppose when you think it's that bad you can only be pleasantly surprised by whatever marks you get.

Winny I have the opposite problem with word counts. Every time I write a tms I am over the limit and have to cut some. So I end up cutting out some points I've made and then my feedback will say something about missing things out :( I do go on though, I can't help it

Maybe you should focus on only one or two issues and then write extensively on those iyswim? Always better than writing a bit on lots of problems.

I usually manage to get the word count about right- the 1/3 was because I started writing an hour before deadline and so just mentioned the points but didn't elaborate on them.

Might be the same thing tonight- deadline and only about 300 words written!

I think I'll try that Winny, not writing an hour before the deadline lol but writing down the points first and then elaborating because I think that way I wouldn't be missing any points by cutting them out. If that makes sense. Thanks for the idea!

Actually I'm loving Humphrey Davy;

it's the best essay topic so far, even though I'm not really allowed to write about him too much, just whether he was a fully paid up enlightenmentist(it is a real word I tell ya).

Tis fun and I like science and he was a proper scientist, who liked to have nitrous oxide parties with Samuel T. Coleridge-what's not to like?

Tartan-I was beside myself with my 1st TMA-I'm sure you've not done as bad as you think. The 1st counts for less of your final mark anyway. You need a .

schroeder-i also loved reading about Davy. Have you considered any science courses?

So I haven't done much as DP announced that he's going to London tomorrow for business and a party and I've been seething all evening.

tastes good, though

I started out doing Biology HND many years ago, but I can't imagine going back to it now I fear it would boggle my enfeebled brain these days.

It's such a relief for me to be writing about something I can actually get involved in this time. I have found the topics for the previous TMAs very uninviting, to the point that I have not wanted to engage with them at all. It's a wonder I have passed, it was also quite a close thing that I would drop out.

The OU forum is surprisingly lacking in enthusiasm for Davy; I get the impression A207 is full of people from Art,music or literature backgrounds.

Are you feeling better LB29?

Yes thank you. Have started being good and taking iron tablets again. I'm always so bloody anemic.

The physics ou books that I have only have a tiny section about each scientists life so I have often gone out and bought books about them. Clever people seem to lead odd but interesting lives.

Marking my place here. Need to get an early night tonight, I have actually done some work today and I have come over all faint at the shock and need a lie down

Thought I'd done lots of work but after tonight's tutorial have realised my emphasis wasn't quite right. Have decided to go for and sleep on it.

ARRRRGH.

Yes, is the answer.

Okay, well, I have this month on the 10th a presentation then lead a seminar discussion on my presentation (fuck). And on the 11th a really daft short essay due in, that is pretty much done, but not very good.

The presentation is driving me mad. It is on a paper that engages with current debates in human geography and shows my emerging area of interest. So I have this paper:
Measuring Fatness, Governing Bodies: The spatialities of the Body Mass Index (BMI) in anti-obesity politics (Colls and Evans, 2009), only at the organisation meeting the module lead was really negative about the contemporary nature of everyone's suggestions, mine for including Foucauldian perspectives which are apparently old news in human geography . But that is okay, I can link it easily to contemporary debates on embodiment, and children's experiences (it is about the national school measurement programme). But it is all making me concentrate on justifying the paper rather than presenting a summary of the paper, and I have been distracted somewhat from the content by finding contemporary links.
The annoying thing is he is quite specialised, and what he sees is contemporary, when you look in the latest issues of the top human geography journals, is not actually as important as he makes out. But he is going to be marking us so I suppose I should tailor it somewhat!
Sorry, long.

Fuckety Fuck.

Argh.

You're right about the OU forum regarding this TMA schroeder, I'm an arts and humanities bod and I am finding this TMA really really boring and hard to get into.

Sorry to hear you're having trouble with it wildstrawberryplace.

I'm just treating it like all the others really-just going through the text and finding examples of him writing like a fully paid up enlightenment person and then examples of him sounding more romantic.

Then I've done the same for the biographical info in the course book and the activities booklet thing (I haven't bothered much with the cdrom because I think it's pretty crap).

I haven't done a thing today very slack, I'm not working this weekend so I've got this feeling I've loads of time

Blimey manatee that sounds interesting!

"Foucauldian perspectives... are apparently old news in human geography" sheesh these academics, eh? They will disappear up their own fundaments next

Ah the old "loads of time" feeling, schroeder. Yes I know it well. I usually get that just before I realise that I should have cracked on when I did have loads of time, but that instead I MNed, faffed about and generally frittered the time away.

Aargh have lost direction completely don't know what the hell I'm doing. Have had so many that I will soon be the size of a house. Too early for

Got extension til the 15th I loooove my tutor.

Now to work.

New news is bloody non- representational theory, actor network theory, affect, and some other stuff