I'm so ridiculously tired right now. It's 1:17 am. But I'm so, so, so happy. I just (yes, just now) finished my absolute last regular assignment for my course. After four years (part time, although the 'part' of the 'part time' was rather subjective at times) of forehead bleeding (see quote in right sidebar, LOL) and stress and deadlines and pain and good marks and bad marks and grumpy lecturers and good lecturers and fanTAStic lecturers, here I am. At the end. Well, almost. But close enough!
I do have a larger project with a due date not until mid-January, but today's assignment was the very last little yellow envelope I'll ever have to post off. With this other project still on the burner I don't feel as though I can celebrate finishing the course just yet, but gosh, it feels SO GOOD to be done with the hard slog.
This larger project? A portfolio of all my writings on autism. As most of you know, its a whole lot easier to write about something you're passionate about anyway. So much of what I've written on special needs before has come so easily and quickly. I'm hoping the last half of the project will be the same.
Just had to share this momentus occasion with SOMEBODY. Even if it is now 1:21.
Totally worth the raccoon eyes tomorrow.
Totally.
Cheers,
Lizzie
4 comments:
yea! what exactly are you going to school for; i have not really seen you say since i have come aboard recently.
Stacey -
I'm studying Professional Writing - basically freelance journalism but it delves into novels, screenplays, writing for kids, non-fiction etc etc etc. It's a very respected course and all of my lecturers have been well known Australian authors. One lecturer I had for Writing Articles interviewed JFK apparently. He was, obviously, about four thousand years old by the time he ended up as my teacher, LOL. The good thing about this course - which was four years, done externally (ie, posting assignments in, the only way I could have managed with kids as young as they were - can't even imagine studying on-campus with littlies). I started when Miss Moo was 2 and J was 5 - we basically 'began' school together, he and I :)
I may have moaned and groaned and whinged my whole way through this course but I'm so thrilled to have come out the other end (okay, almost). One of the main things I wanted out of the course was to prove to myself (and to others) that I could stick with it (I hadn't had a great track record with study before, long story!). Also, it has cost us close to $3k over those four years with almost no return (this includes stationery etc) and DH was (understandably) hesitant at first. So I wasn't *allowed* to quit or I'd never have heard the end of it, LOL.
I've learned where my strengths and weaknesses lie as a writer, and I think that is one of the best things I've taken away from it all. I entered into it still mostly in the mindset of high school english lit - where the teachers adored me and I could do no wrong. I literally didn't get less than an A my entire last year at school. So after a gap of a few years I started this course and suddenly I wasn't as good as I thought I was, LOL - that took some getting used to at first, but I think it has really worked in my favour, the criticism. I've got millions of ideas in notebooks now :)
Cheers,
Lizzie
Many Congrats!
Congratulations, Lizzie! :)
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