Can I just tell you

that last night I didn't do ANY homework? I came home, cut out pattern pieces for a bodice I'm wearing this Saturday, made dinner, ate dinner, cleaned up, and then got to sewing. No homework at all all night!

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The course I'm taking this semester is very analytical. Work is mostly reading/discussion. We'll have 1 mid-term paper (he's already told us what he'll like us to discuss in it. They we'll have a final.

We were given the option to choose what we wanted to do for a final. The first option was a research paper on a topic of our choosing. We'd need to do a small informal presentation on it too to the class. The other option is another take-home essay type paper. The pro of the research paper is that its a topic of your choosing, and you can pace the work. The pro of the take-home is that its not till the end of the semester, and extra research time won't be spent on it.

Normally I'd do the research paper - I'm one to take on extra work to make it more meaningful for me (and I enjoy, and are really good at research). But, I've been struggling for a topic, and nothing's grabbing me. My interests right now are too narrow and as such trying to think of a high-level general question that I'd like to answer with said paper . . . I'm just not getting it. Not to mention I don't know when I'd do the extra research for it. I just want to get this semester over with as simply as possible.

I'm giving in and taking the easy route. This so isn't me, but its what I think I need to do now. I'm going to e-mail my professor later and let him (rather than sending over an outline for the research paper that I was planning on doing as of Tuesday night). I know he'll be dissapointed since he was interested in what I'd come up with in my own paper (something about health policy, since health care is where my interests are). Ah well - I need to do what's right for me.

Off to get lunch. My its warm in here! The good news though is that my boss is going to do my evaluation for my fieldwork requirement herself before she leaves (and that's OK with the program head). She's also going to get my annual review done before she leaves (my anniversary date is 1 week after she's gone from the company).