Now as things go i think we live a pretty stress free life, except that which we create for ourselves.
The student has been creating stress with great diligence, essays she said she would have finished by Xmas were not done yesterday morning with the cliff hanging over her that they had to be in by midday today.
I positively demanded to be allowed to take Branwen back to university yesterday and was delighted to be stuck behind a truck virtually the whole way home. Something that took it out of me so much I had to go down the pub.....
When i left everyone was hiding from the student who was holed up in her office bashing away on the keyboard of her computer.
It's a sign of her increasing academic competence that she had not asked me to read either essay. Indeed when I eventually sneaked a look last night they were both quite polished bits of work.
Hysteria and stress had abounded when I left, things did not seem to have improved when I got home - but they had.
Herself, having driven herself into a total lather and viewing another 3 am finish on the cards, noted the essays were actually due in - Wednesday.
She called a halt to frenzied writing and called for a bottle of wine.
She chilled all night had a good nights sleep and is currently enjoying finishing the first of her essays at leisure. She has all day tomorrow to finish the second
I wonder if she will take this as a learning experience. Next essays will be written more than a day before they are due?
Today has been a lot more relaxed - Wednesday i get to drive her to uni and drop off the scripts, then she has promised lunch.
The student has been creating stress with great diligence, essays she said she would have finished by Xmas were not done yesterday morning with the cliff hanging over her that they had to be in by midday today.
I positively demanded to be allowed to take Branwen back to university yesterday and was delighted to be stuck behind a truck virtually the whole way home. Something that took it out of me so much I had to go down the pub.....
When i left everyone was hiding from the student who was holed up in her office bashing away on the keyboard of her computer.
It's a sign of her increasing academic competence that she had not asked me to read either essay. Indeed when I eventually sneaked a look last night they were both quite polished bits of work.
Hysteria and stress had abounded when I left, things did not seem to have improved when I got home - but they had.
Herself, having driven herself into a total lather and viewing another 3 am finish on the cards, noted the essays were actually due in - Wednesday.
She called a halt to frenzied writing and called for a bottle of wine.
She chilled all night had a good nights sleep and is currently enjoying finishing the first of her essays at leisure. She has all day tomorrow to finish the second
I wonder if she will take this as a learning experience. Next essays will be written more than a day before they are due?
Today has been a lot more relaxed - Wednesday i get to drive her to uni and drop off the scripts, then she has promised lunch.
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