I woke up sick this morning. I haven’t worked out yet if I have a cold or the flu; I’m supremely groggy at the moment. If I could, I would be in bed right now, but unfortunately I have six papers due in these two weeks, none of which are completed at the moment. Stress levels are high.

I’m working on one of them right now which is a lot more work than I originally anticipated. Instead of slogging three essays off this long weekend, I am still on this same, one paper due tomorrow.

Nothing like deadlines to keep me working, though. Not only have I been tottering about the house doing chores — my parents are visiting in the next few days, so I need to undertake spring-cleaning of epic proportions before then — I’ve also completed my course evaluations! I’m not sure why I feel so proud of this, but I’m glad I won’t be receiving any more emails bugging me to complete them; my inbox is already overflowing with messages I need to respond to.

Back to my essay I go.

Being a sick student at this time of year is the worst.

Did anyone get the link for where you can actually do course evaluations? The email I received was missing it.

Irck! This is the sound of my second failed attempt to apply to a UBC Childcare position through CareersOnline.

Last time I waited until the last day it was accepting applications before I set about getting my documents together, only to find that the posting had disappeared. I thought perhaps I had remembered wrong; my bad.

This time the posting appeared about a week ago. I spent the weekend working on my resume — my standard resume doesn’t have much of my experience working with children — and got home today intent on finishing my cover letter, only to find that the posting is once again gone!

Of course, all this just means I really ought to learn to apply to a job I want the minute I see it. Lesson learned, I hope.

Time to go back to haunting my various career websites.