Sadhbh's Weekly Breakdown

So I’ve been on pretty much full lock down for a good while now. I met up with my partner the other day and we went for a walk around my area. He really liked how nice everything looked and how quiet it all was. So we discussed a bit more about him possibly applying to UL for the same course for September and what it could look like if we got a place out here together.

I’m still finding the online classes difficult and irritating. This is mostly due to the fact that I get very bad sensory over load so looking at screens and hearing loud noises is very difficult for me.

It’s odd that on one hand, I feel like I never stop working but on the other hand, I feel like I’m not doing anything and I’m extremely behind. Today we are supposed to be getting special permission to use very fancy software, so that we can continue to do our work for our editing and radio, respectively, classes. I was having enough trouble with it when the lecturer and other students next to me, ready to help. But doing this on my own with family obligations and my own illnesses? I just don’t see this going well.

I’m trying to compensate my lack of motivation by doing a little bit of prep for my English essay. I’ve decided to do the gender question, with borrowing headings from the power question, so that I can play the genders against each other. But I wonder, am I going for the easy option. Is the gender question the “bimbo” question? Should I be challenging myself more or should I stick to my guns and write what I feel I know about? I remember a little bit about doing a question like this for my leaving cert back in 2013. My English teacher back then was really into doing dramatic readings of her favourite scenes and then doing it in more modern English that we would understand. One thing that stuck with me was when she helped show us how ambitious lady macbeth really was.

I think if I keep a hold of that, wait for the software and take it slow and steady, then I should be OK

Thanks for reading!