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Radio Silence
Thursday, 10 July 2008 08:32 amI returned from FGC Gathering on Saturday, which was an excellent experience, but I've been slightly pressed for journal writing-time since then. I really want to write about my time away, but it'll have to wait until the weekend (at least), because I have a paper due Friday in my Peace and Conflict Studies class.
The topic is (in part): "How effective are practices of negotiation, mediation, and dialogue in conflict situations that are characterized by severe inequality in social status, or in economic and political power?"
On Monday, I thought I knew what I was going to say, and I had absolutely no oomph to work on it- though that's fairly easy to explain. One of the reasons I took the class was to try and see if it would give me hints for service-work that would speak to me, and I had just spent a week where I did a pile of service that I felt surprisingly (to me, at least) quite good at. And it was an intense week with not enough sleep. Monday night I felt so uninspired that I was fairly convinced I wanted to outright quit the class, though I changed my mind again by Tuesday afternoon, and got back to it.
Well, I'm less worn out now, and I've been making progress on the paper, and I even slept fine last night. I hope to finish the content of the paper in an hour, get in to work slightly late (hi boss!) and write up the references properly for tomorrow morning.
Whether I will want to follow up this class with another one is a question for another week, though I'm tending toward a fairly strong "no" at the moment.
Things to be happy about:
* flexible work hours. I had half a day's extra time "banked" informally, which is being ever so slightly useful this week.
* understanding sweetie. I didn't see him for a week, and now I've got a paper to write in evenings. (I'm not sure how it ultimately connects that it was partly his nudging that I'm taking the class in the first place...)
* understanding family. My parents called last night and I told them I couldn't talk even though we hadn't talked in... almost a month, and it'll be another week until they can call again.
* contact lenses in the proper eyes. Yes, I swapped my contact-lens covers some time last week, which explains why I've felt like the vision in my left (stronger) eye was a bit blurry since the middle of last week. (Huh, the astigmatism really does exist...) Feel free to laugh at me now, I have been since yesterday when I tried experimentally swapping them and yes, the problem went away.
...and now after writing for 15 minutes here I feel warmed up and I can finish writing my argument for the paper.
The topic is (in part): "How effective are practices of negotiation, mediation, and dialogue in conflict situations that are characterized by severe inequality in social status, or in economic and political power?"
On Monday, I thought I knew what I was going to say, and I had absolutely no oomph to work on it- though that's fairly easy to explain. One of the reasons I took the class was to try and see if it would give me hints for service-work that would speak to me, and I had just spent a week where I did a pile of service that I felt surprisingly (to me, at least) quite good at. And it was an intense week with not enough sleep. Monday night I felt so uninspired that I was fairly convinced I wanted to outright quit the class, though I changed my mind again by Tuesday afternoon, and got back to it.
Well, I'm less worn out now, and I've been making progress on the paper, and I even slept fine last night. I hope to finish the content of the paper in an hour, get in to work slightly late (hi boss!) and write up the references properly for tomorrow morning.
Whether I will want to follow up this class with another one is a question for another week, though I'm tending toward a fairly strong "no" at the moment.
Things to be happy about:
* flexible work hours. I had half a day's extra time "banked" informally, which is being ever so slightly useful this week.
* understanding sweetie. I didn't see him for a week, and now I've got a paper to write in evenings. (I'm not sure how it ultimately connects that it was partly his nudging that I'm taking the class in the first place...)
* understanding family. My parents called last night and I told them I couldn't talk even though we hadn't talked in... almost a month, and it'll be another week until they can call again.
* contact lenses in the proper eyes. Yes, I swapped my contact-lens covers some time last week, which explains why I've felt like the vision in my left (stronger) eye was a bit blurry since the middle of last week. (Huh, the astigmatism really does exist...) Feel free to laugh at me now, I have been since yesterday when I tried experimentally swapping them and yes, the problem went away.
...and now after writing for 15 minutes here I feel warmed up and I can finish writing my argument for the paper.
