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dancerjodi) wrote2003-09-05 01:01 pm
dancerjodi) wrote2003-09-05 01:01 pm
Freaky!
Homework rambling, feel free to ignore :)
Since being back at school I've worked on homework where I've had small blocks of time here and there. I did some on Tuesday night after class. I did some on Wednesday before making dinner and for about a 1/2 hour after fabric shopping. I did some last night after class and before goffee. I did some this morning before my meeting (given traffic, I can't leave the house any later . . . so I ended up with an hour and a half to kill at the hospital in Melrose before a meeting). And I just did some during my lunch hour.
Its fricken Thursday and I'm done with all of my reading for both the Tues and Thurs classes. This means I just need to take a 1/2 hour at home to write up a couple of quick summaries on what I've read (one of them I've already outlined, I just need to type . . . the other I need to create). Then I'm DONE. And its only Friday at 1:00. I'm hoping to write these things up when I get home after work and before/while I'm making dinner. That will leave me the whole weekend to not look at the homework again! *Boggle*
I think the key is using small bits of time that I'd normally use for reading the newspaper, or doing the dishes, or other things that aren't that important. Its multitasking that's the key, and I'm just always looking for new ways to do it. Having a breakfast bar in the kitchen has made this easier (making dinner while doing dishes and then sitting down to do homework right next to the stove). Watching part of last night's Democratic Presidential debate while flipping through the newspaper and some catalogs was a good idea too.
So I'll definitely get to do landscapey stuff tomorrow, hopefully drag out the fall decorations from the basement, do some sewing on Sunday and go visit the fam.
God I'm such a nerd! I got all excited when reading about the history of bureaucracy and different management techniques during the industrial revolution (I'm taking a course on the Sociology of Organizations and we're going over the theoretical bases now). It reminded me of stories my Gram told me about her days working in the Waltham Watch Factory where the other workers got mad at her for producing so many little metal triangles (they used them later on in the watch-making process to etch little decorative details into the metal or something). They would slow down production on purpose so that they could slack a bit, and Gram didn't know about 'the rules' when she first started working there. She had a hard time slowing down, so she'd just take a bunch of her triangles at the end of the day and hide them in a drawer at her work station so as not to rock the boat. :)
Since being back at school I've worked on homework where I've had small blocks of time here and there. I did some on Tuesday night after class. I did some on Wednesday before making dinner and for about a 1/2 hour after fabric shopping. I did some last night after class and before goffee. I did some this morning before my meeting (given traffic, I can't leave the house any later . . . so I ended up with an hour and a half to kill at the hospital in Melrose before a meeting). And I just did some during my lunch hour.
Its fricken Thursday and I'm done with all of my reading for both the Tues and Thurs classes. This means I just need to take a 1/2 hour at home to write up a couple of quick summaries on what I've read (one of them I've already outlined, I just need to type . . . the other I need to create). Then I'm DONE. And its only Friday at 1:00. I'm hoping to write these things up when I get home after work and before/while I'm making dinner. That will leave me the whole weekend to not look at the homework again! *Boggle*
I think the key is using small bits of time that I'd normally use for reading the newspaper, or doing the dishes, or other things that aren't that important. Its multitasking that's the key, and I'm just always looking for new ways to do it. Having a breakfast bar in the kitchen has made this easier (making dinner while doing dishes and then sitting down to do homework right next to the stove). Watching part of last night's Democratic Presidential debate while flipping through the newspaper and some catalogs was a good idea too.
So I'll definitely get to do landscapey stuff tomorrow, hopefully drag out the fall decorations from the basement, do some sewing on Sunday and go visit the fam.
God I'm such a nerd! I got all excited when reading about the history of bureaucracy and different management techniques during the industrial revolution (I'm taking a course on the Sociology of Organizations and we're going over the theoretical bases now). It reminded me of stories my Gram told me about her days working in the Waltham Watch Factory where the other workers got mad at her for producing so many little metal triangles (they used them later on in the watch-making process to etch little decorative details into the metal or something). They would slow down production on purpose so that they could slack a bit, and Gram didn't know about 'the rules' when she first started working there. She had a hard time slowing down, so she'd just take a bunch of her triangles at the end of the day and hide them in a drawer at her work station so as not to rock the boat. :)
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