Just wanted to share the Facebook post above which I put in a Facebook group called “Reviewer 2 must be stopped” which I follow just for laughs. I’ve never had over 1000 likes on a post before! I’m Facebook famous!! Of course I haven’t actaully got to the point in my PhD where all that failure has occured… yet! And I’m not actually as worried about it as this post would imply. I am just drowning in confirmation re-writing, I’m still annoyed that I have to use focus groups when I cannot see the advantage of them as a method for this particular study and my supervisors recently made some negative comments about my writing, which is usually my strength.

Guess I’m just feeling a bit flat.

On the bright side – no more hours for the Academic Learning Centre until March. I did 90 jolly assignments this term…90!!! No wonder I feel like I have had enough. My marking is also finished and I look forward to teaching essay writing next year as one of my coworkers has relocated to another campus. So they are likely to reshuffle everything and have me teach essay writing instead of the core/basic preparation skills. I do like a bit of variety in my teaching/marking. I think it looks good on the resume too.