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Mar. 6th, 2008 03:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hathycolFinding it remarkably tricky to be positive today. I appear to be fighting off a minor infection, which in itself isn't particularly problematic, but it means that my throat is killing me, I can't control my temperature and my joints hurt like buggary fuck. This makes everything three times more difficult than it should otherwise be, including 'eating' and 'staying consistently awake' which I'm determined to do so that I can just fall into bed ridiculously early tonight.
What makes matters slightly more difficult is that I just got a rejection for a summer internship - the first of many, I'm sure - and to be honest, no, I don't want to attend a workshop telling me the many ways in which I fucked up my application. I fucked up my application because, hey ho, I'm coming from the wrong background (history - A Degree About The Past, Without a Future) and I have no exciting previous experience in shiny jobs because I have to take the first thing I can get. Ho hum. It's not unexpected, but it's sort of a knock-back on the old confidence levels. Combine all this with a large pile of research to do on Henry VIII, Torchwood refusing to download and another essay to start researching tomorrow and you'll see why, perhaps, I'm not feeling as positive as I might be.
HOWEVER. That isn't the point of the Week o' Positivity. As such:
1. My tutor told me today (after expressing mild surprise and pleasure that I was researching so early; I didn't have the heart to tell him it was because I don't like my other subject very much) that I was exactly on the right track with my research, and yes, it is the obvious answer I'm looking for, which is fine and dandy for me.
2. Yesterday, I slumped on a chair and pretended to be dead for a while for a researsal for a play I'm meant to be in. I have to do this for far too much dialogue, in which I attempt not to laugh. More theatre should involve Ovid, Torchwood Dundee ("Why shouldn't aliens try to invade Cardiff and Dundee?"), enraged cleaning ladies and 1970s style effects all with the Tenth Doctor. TRUFAX.
3. Tomorrow is Friday, and heralds the weekend and sleeping in and allowing myself a glass of wine of an evening. HUZZAH!
What makes matters slightly more difficult is that I just got a rejection for a summer internship - the first of many, I'm sure - and to be honest, no, I don't want to attend a workshop telling me the many ways in which I fucked up my application. I fucked up my application because, hey ho, I'm coming from the wrong background (history - A Degree About The Past, Without a Future) and I have no exciting previous experience in shiny jobs because I have to take the first thing I can get. Ho hum. It's not unexpected, but it's sort of a knock-back on the old confidence levels. Combine all this with a large pile of research to do on Henry VIII, Torchwood refusing to download and another essay to start researching tomorrow and you'll see why, perhaps, I'm not feeling as positive as I might be.
HOWEVER. That isn't the point of the Week o' Positivity. As such:
1. My tutor told me today (after expressing mild surprise and pleasure that I was researching so early; I didn't have the heart to tell him it was because I don't like my other subject very much) that I was exactly on the right track with my research, and yes, it is the obvious answer I'm looking for, which is fine and dandy for me.
2. Yesterday, I slumped on a chair and pretended to be dead for a while for a researsal for a play I'm meant to be in. I have to do this for far too much dialogue, in which I attempt not to laugh. More theatre should involve Ovid, Torchwood Dundee ("Why shouldn't aliens try to invade Cardiff and Dundee?"), enraged cleaning ladies and 1970s style effects all with the Tenth Doctor. TRUFAX.
3. Tomorrow is Friday, and heralds the weekend and sleeping in and allowing myself a glass of wine of an evening. HUZZAH!
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Date: 2008-03-06 06:20 pm (UTC)But yes huzzah for Torchwood and 70's style drama that includes it and the Dr!!!! xXx
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Date: 2008-03-07 04:59 pm (UTC)