APRIL PROCRATINATORS THREAD

[winnybella]

I thought I'll start this one as I am, without a doubt, the worst procratinator among you all (failed to submit the second tma on this course).

So...my next deadline is April 5th and it's on A Portrait of A Lady and A Woman in White.

How's everybody else getting on?

Prolesworth hope you feel better soon.

I have a TMA that needs finishing tonight. Have done some today but have also spent loads of time looking at crap. Post-grad prospectuses have been ordered but won't be much use if I don't pull my finger out!

I've got 2 assignments due on the 3rd May, so all those lovely long bank holidays will be taken up with work. I've got a 2k dissertation proposal and 3k historigraphical review to do and still not sure about topic!!! Meeting prof tomorrow, then the work starts.

you lot are blardy crap at procrastinating you know. it is unforgiveable to start the bleeding APRIL thread half way through march.

that is NOT procrastinating.

anyways, i've only got 13 days left at work until i'm back on the study wagon
woo hoo!

now, get back to march! how very dare you do april's procrastinating in advance!

hope everything is healing, proles...

madwomanintheattic- well, it's for April assignments...the March thread seemed to have gone quiet...

And I am the queen of procrastination, thank you very much- I didn't even submit the February tma...

Off to read Mme Bovary

tut winny, if you were proper procrastinator, you would still be too worried about march to even think about what was due in april!

february?

you are a mere wannabe.

i have had work outstanding for two years i'll have you know. actually , i think, some of it might be threeeee.......

february, indeed.

yes, but now it's too late and so I'll get zero points for it!

madwoman will you have a look at my thread in active convos 'should my dp go to a&e', please?

trying to convince him that he should.

ooo. off to look.

actually, i am rather impressed. giving your dp a potential penile fracture probably is quite worthy of a good (beginner's) attempt at procrastination.

is it very sore?

It is. He's going to stop by A&E in the morning. Fgs.

So did you say you have an April deadline? What have you got to do?

not an april deadline as such. just that i'm FINISHING WORK IN APRIL TO FINISH MY MSC.

so i need to count all of the assignments i have to finish. finish them. and write my dissertation before the summer. i think there are around, um, 9? that is a guess, though.

piece of cake.

so really, i need to write a cunning plan, initially. like work out wtf i need to dooooooooo. in reality, as opposed to just 'finish my msc' which in itself is a bit, er, woolly.

at least he's going to go. i can understand him not watning to go and, er, hang out with the drunks tbh. he must be in some discomfort if he's actually conceded!

oo. italics error writ large.

it was only supposed to highlight 'hang out' as a small jape...

Well, he called his doctor this morning and he sent him to a hospital and gave him a name of an urologist. So he went. Bit scared, tbh.

Yes, sorry, misread your post re:April deadline, what with worrying about penile fractures - well, you better get on with planning it all, then. You obviously need an April thread I imagine you have lots of reading to do, eh?

Proles, hope you're feeling better. Keep on reading!

oh, winny, that puts one method of procrastination out of the window for ya, for a while then? hope he feels less sore soon!

yep. i neeed the april thread. but not yet.
13 days to go!

Bugger, I have been so lazy recently. I start with all these good intentions but end up in a mess. Next one is due in 6 days time and is on rotating and non-rotating black holes. I haven't even read two of the chapters so will be working hard this week, hopefully.....

Well, well, well...I assume that everyone is working hard/done their April assignments, since this thread went quiet...

Right. Because I haven't submitted two TMAs I need to get firsts on my next two assignments to get a pass 3 Or perhaps high 2.1, forgot.

Anyway...next one is due on April 5th, next Tuesday and I still have A Portrait of A Lady to read.

I need to get a good grade or I'll die of shame. I'm hoping to do well on the exam, just for my satisfaction really, as the buggers don't ever bump you up, do they, if you don't have both OCAS and OES in the same band.

Anyone out there?

How are you doing, Proles? And madwoman?

get reading!

I'm here, supposedly writing a TMA on Seamus Heaney's 'The Burial at Thebes' which is actually very good and I'm going to start in a minute, honestly......

Ooooh, Burial at Thebes - that must be AA100. Great play! I did some magnificent procrastinating on that one (sigh). I'm currently procrastinating on here instead of writing my Macbeth essay for AA306. Never written such a load of waffle in all my life! I'm losing the will to live (unintentional pun!)...

Yes it's AA100, TMA6. I have actually started, written all my quotes out and organised into themes. Now I need to join it all up coherently. However, just had to go and collect dd1 from school as she feels sick [hmmm] so don't know how much more I'll get done today.

NCOT- how's AA306? I can't remember if I've asked you that already. I need to choose 2 modules for Oct.

Hi Winnybella , AA306 is excellent - the course text book is really well written and very accessible (IE not overly 'academic'), the essays in the critics reader are well chosen and the TMAs have lots of scope for waffle (my speciality). The emphasis on performance is more interesting than I expected and keeps it varied (any more close reading of caesurae and the like and I'll explode). I'm trying to read POAL for the October start of AA316 - can anyone read HJ without falling asleep? He takes two pages to describe some nonentity then sums it up with a pithy sentence at the end of the chapter. Loved Dombey but this one makes me wonder if 19th century lit is for me...

Oooh, see, I hated Dombey but I'm liking POAL- but then I've read other novels and short stories by James and liked them.

But agree it's a book that needs to be read in solitude and silence.