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The last week has been rather difficult for a number of interelated reasons and this has had some bearing on the progress of my assignment work; Rarely have I known such a challenging pre-Christmas period!
I have had to make a difficult decision imposed on me by my financial situation which is now, as a consequence of the loss of my job and the need to find a new one, pretty perilous. Bills and our home need to be paid for and of course the season of ill will is fast approaching! I have managed to find temporary work for the period up to just prior to Christmas. In addition to this I have secured two interviews for permanent jobs in the next few days and have to prepare for these accordingly. All of these developments have taken their toll on the time available for home study and assignment work and I find this situation frustrating and (dare I say it!) overwhelming. I will simply have to taken advantage of the dispensation we have been given vis the essay but perhaps the same will need to apply to the actual workshop-based ICT bits and bobs. As far as this latter is concerned and after a confused start involving my attention span deficit, some ID/ technical hitches, plus my ability to turn technophobia into an art form, it is only now that I am getting a handle on this component of the course. I need more time to complete this assignment and face the relative embarrasment of asking for an extension (on a parity with the written component) to complete my unsatisfactory ICT bits and bobs.
Tim contacted me a few evenings ago to discuss the course work and because I had all the financial and employment concerns swimming around in my mind I was a bit preocupied and probably sounded rather abrupt or unconcerned.
On the teaching practice front, the job I had applied for as 'Learning support Officer' in the post-16 sector, working in a local college of F.E. in a paid mentoring capacity, had fallen through. Fortunately two of the jobs I have secured interviews for have some relavance, however tenuous, to the teaching practice requirements and hopefully soon I will be able to report of my experience of one of these. In the meantime things are in limbo during this strange bone-chilling snow and frost inflected pre-yuletide period!